 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. Today I'm going to be showing you how to make a napkin fold gift box. So the napkin fold technique is really popular and there's lots of that around on YouTube but this is a box version. Now this came about from a video, mini video I saw on a Facebook group that I follow by a lovely girl called Jess and everybody went mad for it and we all wanted to know how she made it. She was a bit dubious whether to do a tutorial or not she's just starting up her channel which is Papercraft Moon and I will share her details below. Anyway she's done the tutorial and while she was putting hers up I managed to kind of work it out myself as well and I told her that I'd done the video and I would be mentioning her so do pop over to her channel and have a look. She makes some wonderful paper crafts and as I said she's just starting to do her YouTube channel so go over and give her some support there would be lovely. She's also got the idea from a Pinterest picture and I've done a little bit of detective work and I've managed to find out what we believe is possibly the original source and I will share all those links below but even that lady that shared it said that she saw it from a actual napkin that was folded so there you go. We never really know where these things come from I guess so basically what it is they look like two very normal boxes however the surprise I'll show you first of all this is with eight by eight paper so you just lift up the top here and you have this here and then as you kind of open it it kind of clicks out and inside you can see there I've got this little love so this is the napkin fold so this you can see you'll see this in lots of cards there's lots of napkin fold cards and that's this piece here and basically it's just attached if you see there you kind of cut through the middle of the paper to form these four triangles then you just stick it inside your box like so so that's that version there that I've done using the craft card which I really liked it kind of clicks in push it all in it clicks in there and then you put the lid back on there and then I've done it again with a six by six card so again really straight forward box I still need to decorate this one so I'm going to be doing that one later and again you open it up so it's kind of all clicked into place like so give you a little side profile there it looks really really lovely and again just when you lift kind of one they then all pop up and then inside you can see I've done this one here slightly different I prefer the design of this one I think just because I love these papers and I'll show you those papers in a minute but you can see again there where it's been cut just to show off the the triangles there on each side um so this one was done using playing card as your base along with this one here but inside the actual napkin fold was done with patterned paper and then plain triangles on top now I actually think I prefer plain with patterned triangles although I've got some plain ones here but I think overall the pattern I like the mix of the pattern and the plane but I just think working with a plain base is better although I'm going to be showing you on a pattern base again just because I'm going to be showing you the eight by eight size so all the dimensions I will share below and I will share all the measurements for this six by six but once you know how to do one of them then you can just change the sizes on all of them so there you go okay so just pop that one back down again and you can see they're on the sides and stuff it's just a really nice box so it's your full size you know eight by eight four by four 12 by 12 I have also let me just show you these are the 12 by 12 ones I'm playing around with so that is just the initial napkin fold piece and then inside here is what we will be cutting and then forming our box so it is really really straightforward and then this one here I was playing around and I stuck it on the outside but I didn't like that one so but I will also share the measurements for the 12 by 12 as well okay so you are going to need for today sorry it's a really really miserable day it's pouring down with rain it's gray and dull and my lighting's just obviously not great so apologies there right that's the paper pack I used for that small six by six so it's that lovely first edition paradise crush and it was the double sided ones towards the back which I've used all of them for that project but yeah really really lovely um papers here so I'll share all those links now I've done loads and loads of this purely because there's lots of it that's so easy you don't need to watch me doing it I can just tell you so first of all you'll need a piece for your the base of your box now this measures eight by eight squared then you will need four pieces of dsp any kind of patterned paper that you want to use and this measures at three and three quarters by one and three quarters and you will need four pieces of them remember I'll pop all this in my blog so it's entirely up to you whether you want to write it down now or visit the blog that's that piece there then for the actual fold the napkin fold piece in the middle this is just a piece of eight by eight patterned paper again you could use plain if you want to do the plane with this then on top so I'm still debating even at this point whether to change it up so um no I'm gonna stick I think I'm gonna stick I'm gonna stick okay and then at the top piece is the lid which is eight and one eighth of an inch squared so eight and one eighth by eight and one eighth and then again I've already decorated this I've done I've stuck everything on just to keep the video nice and short so piece of square paper in the middle this measures uh three and seven eighths of an inch squared and then the four little ones here because this is a reinforced lid these all measure three and seven eighths by three quarters of an inch and you'd need four of them and then just something to decorate on top so I've used this wonderful die which I can't remember where I got it from but I will share all the links and it's a two-part die so you've got this one which will just cut out the shape and then if you die cut this one it's um it's kind of a partial die so it doesn't die the cut the whole thing so it now allows you to have this feature here where it just partly dies it and die cuts it out so you can see there it's kind of all lifted up it's beautiful and then I've just die cut another circle in the middle there so that's that piece also I've got to mention on the back so once we fold this this is going to be the inside of the box so this is another piece of that yeah three and seven eighths by three and seven eighths which was that piece yeah so it's two pieces of that square piece that you would need okay so that's everything there so first of all we're going to make up the box that's what you need to do first so grab your scoreboard I seem to have lost my um let me grab my stylus for my board so I'm having to use one of those nail things which is another great thing to use anyway so they're fine okay so it's an eight by eight piece you want to score at two and six and then rotate and score at two and six okay so that's for the base piece there then for the lid again this is your eight and one eighth of an inch squared piece you're going to score at one inch two inches six and one eighth of an inch seven and one eighth of an inch just by going over that piece there and then once we reinforce it it will give you enough enough room to have a nice um closure then for this piece here we don't need the scoreboard anymore so you can get rid of that and this is where we do our origami folding so this is what you're going to see when you open it up so you want whatever you're going to see so for example this here oh no that's this is patterned it's easier to show so you can see here the pattern is all on the front and actually underneath is the plain side because it's not double-sided that I used so if you've got double-sided then I guess you just choose which one you want to be the one when you lift the lid up that's what you see so this is this piece here now what we want to do is we want to find the center point but we don't want to score so you just need to do a marker so I'm just going to mark roughly here at four inches and again at the top at four inches and then on this side four and this side here okay and then I'm just going to very lightly draw a pencil mark just roughly in the middle there and then again line up these two points that I've just done again just roughly let's do a pencil there and then I've got a cross now in the middle here which I can just make a bit dark I'm going to rub that out in a minute you just want to have a center point so we're going to be folding everything in now okay so if you want to now just rub out these little bits here and then you can probably that will end up getting cut out anyway but we can do the rest of that you just want to keep that cross in the middle really okay so then what we're going to do is fold this right hand side first of all we're going to fold across so it lines up with the center there that cross just burnish that okay and then again I'm going to do the left hand side make sure you've got nice straight joins there on both ends like so and then you're going to fold up your bottom so it meets that middle cross and then the top that over like so so you should now just have this big square in the middle and then the score lines all on the side turn it over you can see there as well what we've got at the moment okay then what we want to do is grab a corner and you're going to fold the corner in so again meet the middle burnish that again this is quite a common origami fold you're probably if you've been if you've done other origami project projects you may well have done this before because it's it's quite a base kind of fold for a lot of then you know other makes so you just want to really make sure that all of these basically where the the fold is it's at the corner of this square here so you can see the square there you're just folding along and then that end will meet and so on okay so now you should have the big square in the middle these score lines here and then an even bigger square here which forms all these little triangles everywhere okay again if I turn it over you can see there I've got a huge big square here we've got these four triangles and we've got four squares on the corners and then little triangles next to each of those as well okay so that is all of that done now what you want to do is where you've got this triangle here you want to fold that over so that triangle is there and then bring these back on themselves and this is where you want to make sure that it's nice and straight along there and again bring this one over and just make sure it meets up nicely there and you can kind of wiggle them move them a little bit if you need to just to make sure they all join nicely okay and again come around to this side so again there's that big triangle you want to bring it right across so now you will that one will automatically kind of fold into place bring again this one over okay and again rotate bring that big triangle over and then the last one is this big triangle here just bring that under so you're folding everything in on itself like so okay so that's what you should have at this point then you want to get each of these top squares and you're going to bring it back over and fold it over on itself like so now that is what you have so that is that top piece here so you can see now how it's all coming together okay so now open it all back out again because you've furnished and scored all those lines and again using that pencil mark you want to grab yourself a metal ruler you want a cutting knife and a good mat so I've got a self-healing mat here so you don't want to do it on your wooden work surface or glass so basically what we're going to do is we're going to be cutting this inside this square here from this point down to this point and that point down to that point making sure you go right through that x that you marked earlier with the pencil so pop your metal ruler down get your cutting tool make sure you keep it pushed against your ruler like so and then again make sure you get all those points nice and lined up there we go so already now you can see that that's all opened up and basically these pieces are going to fold down and go inside our box okay so I'm going to leave that to one side for the moment and you will also need four pieces of let me just measure this up so I didn't two and a half inch squared okay and you need to cut these across like so and they will form eight little triangles and they will be for these insides of these big squares here so each triangle will have a little mat over the top again I'm going to do all this it's just so you can get that prepped and then you will need one two three four five six seven eight smaller squares and these measure at one and five eighths of an inch squared and again you'll cut them over to give you lots of little triangles okay so now let's grab our base here so let's fold this one all over burnish all of these score lines and a little bit of cutting so you want to cut up like so and then again this one here now this isn't a reinforced box but once we stick these inside pieces inside this it does help reinforce it and if you're using more cards so this is a paper but if this is a strong card you don't want to go too thick on the card because it will make the folds really quite hard and you do want it to kind of click into the box so you just want to do two cuts like this and then I'm just going to take a little bit off of each side there just creating a tiny little notch just to create a nice join when we come to stick that so you can see there what I've cut so just taking these little wedges out of the sides there okay so that's that one and then grab your lid and again where we've scored all of those score lines burnish all your lines burnish and then again just as you do or how I do all these reinforced boxes you've basically got these four squares here in the corner you want to cut up the outside of it and just cut all the way down to the second score line so you go past that first score line down to that second one okay then you want to cut down the middle one again to the same place then rotate it and cut down just to the first score line so you're cutting that piece off so you're left with these two pieces and then again cut that piece off so now you've just got this one tab here and then you just want to again take a few wedges out of the side there and also take a little wedge off the top piece because this is the reinforced bit that will fold in on the lid okay so that's what you should have then I'm going to go across to the opposite side and again that outer score line first we'll cut past the first score line down to the second and again then the middle all the way down and then rotate and cut this one out take a little wedge off there while I'm here again cut that piece off take a little wedge off there and then off of each side there okay so that's what you should have so okay and then rotate now so you've got this facing away from you and you're going to do exactly the same again so cutting down okay so that is now what you should have for your lid so you've got these four little tabs here with little wedges taken out wedges off of all the outer ones that's already for us to now glue down so you could use red tape here if you wanted I'm just going to use my tacky glue just because it's nice and quick and strong so you just want to pop some onto the top of the tab there and then bring it in bring your side down so you form a nice right angle there a nice corner to your box okay you've got time to have a little bit of wiggle room as well so just really I'm kind of pulling it down just to make that corner there really really nice okay like so then rotate round to the next one and you just want to repeat that on all of those little tabs okay so that's what you should have now all those four corners in and then these reinforced bits hanging down so now pop it on its side and you want to put glue on the inside of the outer piece here so just on this piece here so I'm just not you know too careful with it just because we're going to use our bone tool over the top and we'll be able to spread that glue out just make sure you get a nice cover there with the glue and then just fold it in pop it on its side and grab your bone tool and just rub that down until all that glue spreads out and you get a nice crisp edge and side to that lid so you can see there and then just rotate it again grab your glue and pop it and just do that on all four sides now there's our reinforced lid okay so then move on to the base we've already got that all prepped so again what we want to do here is just put some glue on the outer parts of these corner tabs and just like you did with the box oh using my glue there just bring that one under and then one of the sides up and again just make sure you get a really nice corner okay so that's one side and then again just again get your glue and you just want to do exactly so that is now your box and remember I'd stuck that already so that other piece you would stick in there just to give you a nice lid to your box and then it will just sit now nicely on top so if you want there is just a lovely four by four gift box okay so I've changed my mind and you know I was saying oh I'm going to have now I'm going to stick with the printed for the actual um napkin fold I haven't I've changed and I've just done it again but in plain black so this is that again eight by eight just folded just how I did with that but this is now what I'm going to use so and I'm not going to waste this because there are all these squares on here so I'm just going to go and cut them out and then I'll be back and I'll explain it so when I said you needed four pieces of the black um and this was the two and a half squared card I've now saved that piece that I originally had for the napkin fold so basically what you will do is just cut it if you want to use a really you can I'm just eyeballing this from corner to corner like so to create these ones here and they will fit perfectly giving you a nice little border in these ones here okay so you do that with those four which will give you eight of the big triangles and then you have eight of these smaller ones here which were your one and five eighths of an inch and again I've just cut them all from because the score lines were exact so I've just altered them slightly again cut them like that and that will give you 16 of those ones there so basically we are now going to with all these pieces fill all of the triangles and you will have a nice black border around there and then these smaller ones will fit in these triangles here like so you just want to go around and just fill that whole piece okay so that's that piece now all covered and you can see there the bits that I cut earlier so what you want to do is fold those pieces kind of under like this okay like so grab your base of your box and then starting off with one of them here okay so I'm going to put glue on the inside of the triangle these were nice and strong now as well so they've got that patterned paper on top and now they're going to be stuck onto this so it's going to reinforce the sides so basically keeping all four pieces in the box you want to pop that one in and just line it up to the score line through the centre and then inside here you just want to make sure you get that stuck down to the side there and you can pop it on its side and just really apply some pressure on there just to make sure it all sticks down nicely get right up into the corners okay then go around what you can do now is fold it over and just again put glue actually really focus on the edges and the corners there because you want those to sticks it's a triangle you don't want them rolling up and then fold that one down again lift it up here just to make sure that you get it nice lined up with that score line again pop it on its side just go around there just make sure it's really stuck down again do the same here and just do that on the other corners okay so that's all those four sides you can see inside there looks beautiful and then what you want to do is fold it all in and just kind of fold that each triangle kind of back down inside the box it will just help when you want it all to kind of close in and bring it all in grab your lid and as you kind of sit the lid on top it will push it all down and there it is so now when someone gets it and they open it up you get this lovely it's almost like an explosion box again because it kind of opens up like that but that is a napkin fold gift box and it looks beautiful it's just a really really lovely thing and that's again it's just a beautiful size fit lots of nice things in it and again just get it sit it on top and it will just all fold down so there you have it so not my idea hopefully i've given the credit to the people that have and yeah i hope you enjoy and like the versions that i've done so please subscribe to my channel if you'd like to see more tutorials and remember to hit that thumbs up button if you did enjoy today thanks for watching bye