 Hi everybody it's Sam thank you for watching today so I'm going to be showing you how I've made these selection boxes. It's become a thing now that I'm kind of making my own rather than buying them. Something I was always given as a child and I think lots of us had them as well. If you're not familiar with the selection box it's just a box full of chocolates but it's usually like your sweet shop kind of individual chocolates. It's always a different chocolate bar in one box. And last year I'd done the deluxe one so you had the top that lifted and then the sides that pull out. It's also a lovely jewellery box style and you can put other things in there as well. You basically have this box and then you lift up this lid and then inside here you have all the chocolates so you can put any chocolates you want in here. But I also thought you could put a scarf or a t-shirt you know a little bit of clothing in there. Makeup would look great in here. You could turn it into a vanity because this could work as a mirror but actually I'm putting a gift card there so that's that version. This one you can see if I lift it up. I've got that's just a store card thing that I have like a points card but it's just to show you it will fit and I'll give you the measurements for that but I'm going to be buying my gift cards to put into these. So I've got two here I'm going to be making the third one and then all you do is just on the sides here you just open this up and then there's all the chocolates so you know you can just slide them all out or you could put them with glue dots. If you wanted to you don't even have to add the acetate so you could have that as just when you when you see me do that bit you could just skip that bit out have more pattern paper on here and create something else. So it's a really nice box it's a great size and let me show you how I made them. Okay so for the happy Christmas sentiment I've used this new clear stamp and it's the happy Christmas by Simply Creative I'll link everything below and then the Ponsetti as I've got the last two left for the box I'm going to make now and they're just your glittered Ponsetti as again by Simply Creative and then the papers that I've used across all of this is the almost Christmas by first edition and it's just a beautiful pad and you'll see the ones I've chosen in a moment. For the acetate I have this one here it's the Crafters Companion and it's the 9x12 it was sold out when I linked it in another tutorial that I used it in but I'll check again and I'll link it below but any nice acetate will work for this because it's not it doesn't need to be a construction weight so and you can also recycle any packaging that you might have where you get them on your stamps and your dyes and things like that you could use that acetate as well. So I've already stuck a few mats and layers down I'll give you the sizes for those in a moment but to make the box you want these two pieces here so one of them is eight and a quarter by 11 so I've tried to do a size that everybody can use within their letter size or your A4 size you don't have to use 12x12 to make this one so 11 by 8 and a quarter and along the 11 inch side you want to score a half an inch one and a half and then 10 okay and then if you rotate it so you've got that half inch one at the top you then want to score at one inch and seven and a quarter okay because it's one inch high this box then with this piece here so this is a piece of eight and a quarter by nine and a half and you want to score along the start from the eight and a quarter side here you want to score at one and seven and a quarter and then rotate it and just score it eight and a half you just basically want to have a one inch section on three sides only so you see I've got one inch one inch one inch and then I've got the top of that eight and a quarter width free there because that's going to be the top of the no that's going to be the base this is the base of the box okay then for the flaps again this is all optional this is a separate piece that you add on so you might just choose to just have this box this base here you know it's entirely up to you there's lots of ways to kind of slightly alter this along the way but this is a piece of seven and a quarter by eight and a half and along the seven and a quarter side you just want to score it one inch and then you can just fold and burnish that one and that will become our flip lid you can see I've got that lovely gingham print inside and then this is going to be the detail or the design that I'm having on the top I'll give you the sizes for the mats and layers in a moment whilst I've got the scoreboard I'll just give you the sizes of the acetate here this is five and a half by seven and a half and I've already just put a strip of red tape around the sides there then for my because what I've done I always like to whenever I make a kind of an aperture or an opening I like to have a frame so you'll see I've got this gold piece and then this red piece so if you do want to do that I've got this gold piece here which is five and three quarters by eight and then I've got this piece here which is seven and a half by five and a quarter when we get to that I'll explain all those pencil marks and everything on there so that's everything there all we need to do now is fold and burnish everything okay so first of all with this piece here where you've just scored on three sides only along the bottom part here where you've got these two squares you actually want to remove those completely because we're going to attach it all together to make it look like one long piece of card so we need to remove that one and that one and then because these pieces are all going to be stuck underneath here you may just want to take a little sliver off of the top and the bottom of all of those sides just so that you know nothing's kind of sticking out okay so that's what you want to have with that one and then with this piece here you just want to cut up the bottom where you've got the two squares in each corner so that will look the same as this piece like so this end where you've got your half inch in this piece put it around what you want to do is cut the little rectangle out of the corners we can cut actually you can cut all the way down to the second score line so you've got that one free so again cut down this one here and then just remove that top piece there okay if you want to take little bits off there you can do but I always say kind of wait to put the box together because you kind of want it to lock in you want it to to grab and kind of lock against all of this I know we take wedges away you can take little bits away from these ones again down here I just take it away from the tabs don't actually take it away from this from this piece here because you that's going to be shown on the outside you want that to stay the way how it is but you can certainly take them off there but these pieces you can do right at the end when you put it together so I'd leave them for the moment now what we want to do I actually like to have this on the left and this one on the right depending on how you like to work but you're going to add your glue to this piece here so I'm using the cloud this is the cloud red top all purpose lots of people message me asking which one it is it's the clear all purpose like so and then focus on your base school line here and you're going to line this one up over the top okay and just make sure that that line the end to here lines up perfectly with that school line there and the base is all nice and lined up so just give that a minute to stick okay now I almost went and stuck this side together but if you want to cut your aperture so you can have your acetate window you need to do that before you stick this side together so what you want to do festival is I'm just going to bring in this mat here it's flip it over because you want to do all your pencil lines on the the backside here and ignore all of this here you just want to work within this you know even that side ignore that you just working within this rectangle here you want to come in one inch so along this score line here I'm going to mark one inch and then I'm going to come in here so there's my score lines there's the one inch and again along the bottom and then along this side as well so again I'm going along the score line there and then you just want to join up those little markers that are opposite each other make sure you get it nice and straight because these are going to become your cut lines and you don't need to worry about rubbing any of this pencil out because you're going to cut away some of it but no one will see inside this anyway because it's all going to be sealed and now what I want to do is remove all of this section here so these now you've got this perfect rectangle shape inside so I'm just going to bring in I like to use this bit from our taser it's a triangular one but the reason I like using this one I'm using a cutting knife obviously if you've got a trimmer pop this in your trimmer and you'll be able to lay down your you know your blade at the right points but I just like to sit this one down and I can put my fingers here but they're not close to the blade so if I was to slip or anything I know I'm not going to get my fingers but you could also just cut a hole here with your scissors and cut out into each corner and you can cut that out with your scissors so you don't have to do it this way there are you know three options there really on how you can cut this but I'm okay with my cutting knife as long as I've got this ruler but I'm just going to very neatly go along each of these lines really push down and push your knife into the ruler which is why you want to use a metal ruler don't use a plastic or a wooden one okay so now I've perfectly cut my window but like I said completely optional you don't have to do that if you don't want to okay again I keep getting ahead of myself I just went to stick it all together realize I'm starting acetate in so this is now that piece which I gave you the measurements for earlier so I'm just going to take the backing off and then I'm just going to lay this over that window when you're using the red tape just go over it with your bone folder and really make sure it's stuck down and it should go darker the tape you can see it's gone a little bit darker now that way you know you've got all the air bubbles out of it okay now you can get this one lay over this side mine's already got plenty of glue on it so I'm just going to go over it and I can just lay that one over the top so if you want to make a few of these and you maybe don't have a lot of space to store them or you might want to make some nail for next Christmas or just have these as nice gift boxes because they are they remind me of the scarf ones that we used to get so I worked in a department store for some years and when we would get our Christmas gifts in we'd have scarfs and things like that and gloves and they would come in similar boxes to this so you know you can use it for all kinds of things but don't seal the bottom when I come to do that part I just leave it so you can see how it's all flat but now when you bring up the sides you can see how we start to get that lovely box so I am now going to stick down this end here so I like to put the one where you the base one here stick that one down first and I like to sandwich my tabs in between so you just don't see those so I'm just going to run my glue that one down and then if you turn out this way and grab your ruler static all online and then you just pop your ruler in there just really make sure that's all stuck down we've got that box okay next you want to add this piece again completely optional but that is just going to go on there so what I can do now is pop this all down and this is where you might want to cut it if you feel you need to but because I've got a little bit of weight in mind with all the chocolates which let's put the chocolates in actually because I can also show you the ones that I've chosen so if you're in the UK I went to the co-op and they had packs of four for a pound all on offer so four picnic bars four of the toffee crisp four whispers Kit Kats and so on and there was others there as well these are just the ones I chose now I must confess I've eaten the curly whirlies because along the bottom here you can actually get three curly stacked up on top of each other and you can get two fudge bars at the ends here as well so I've got the two fudges there you can see how I've laid them out there again if you want to do something similar but like I said it fit lots of sweets you just might have to arrange them slightly differently so let me just open that one up so I can make sure I get them in the same way so I've got my mine's going to move around a little bit because obviously I couldn't resist and I thought I haven't had a curly worthy for so long I'm going to eat one of them and I haven't had a double-decker or I did eat one of them as well but I only need three of these so it's okay I kept the rest for myself so but it works out much much cheaper doing it this way and you get nice sized bars these are full-size as well so pop that in there like I said mine will move around a little bit because I haven't got the curly whirlies at the top but now just seal that up there we go and that kind of locks in now nicely all right so now I'm going to attach that because it'll be easy now it's got stuff in it so I gave you the measurements for that piece I'll do the mats and layers in a minute all you want to do is add to your glue all down that one inch tab and sit it on top and bend that down and then kind of you know line everything up and bring it towards you but it's really easy actually once you've got the stuff in it to you because you can put a bit of pressure on there now and because again I repeat myself all the time but just we've always got new people the callow is like a cement when it dries it dries rock hard so it's perfect for when you're making 3d things and it doesn't warp anything but now if I very carefully lift that up you see how we're getting our box so the you want two pieces in my case I've got the gold here which were eight and a quarter by six and then my pattern paper and it was good because I've used the eight by eight pad I've had I didn't have to cut the width at all so these pattern pieces you want two pieces that are eight by five and three quarters so got the one for the top there and obviously the one for the inside so now I'm going to show you how to create the frames and then all I've got left to do is a little bit of decoration so these are done exactly the same way as I just cut my frame in the main card there but what you want to do is on the gold piece you want to along with your ruler just come along seven eighths of an inch there and then I came in seven eighths of an inch again along the bottom mark at seven eighths come in at seven eighths turn it do the same seven eighths seven eighths seven eighths seven eighths and then join them all up I'm then going to cut all of that middle bit out and then this piece here I actually give the measurement of that five and three quarters by eight this one here is five and a quarter by seven and a half and this one I came in at five eighths of an inch so five eighths five eighths again there along that side and then you can see my pencil lines and I've already put my double-sided tape on there because I was being very organized but now I'm just going to pop this on high speed but I'm just going to cut the centers out just as I did on that other piece okay so just taking the backing off of that and now I'm just going to sit this one over and it should just cover in a frame and you'll get a nice outer border okay and then all I need to do is add some glue to the backside of this and then it will go inside there and I just think it just finishes off you could then go in with another gold frame here if you wanted to but I'm quite happy with the three you don't want to add too much bulk inside here because obviously you want that lid to just kind of close down quite nicely just put this one in place and then whilst I've got it open this piece here's for the gift card and this is two and a half by three and three quarters which is the size to give you a nice frame for any gift cards but you might want to put a pocket there if you're going to put some money you might want to actually put cash in this you can do but now that's all ready to just use a couple of glue dots and add your gift card so now all I need to do is heat emboss my sentiment and decorate the top okay so just got a bit of scrap cardstock here and I've already got the sentiment in my stamping platform because I've had it for the other ones so I'm just gonna put that one in there and then I've got my versa mark here my stamp already in the lid that one down you can see there I'm just about see the watermark I'm just gonna go in once more and then the embossing powder I've got is the gold Nouveau embossing powder so I'm just going to cover it with that you can see there it's just stuck perfectly onto the sentiment and it's nowhere else on the white card there and then with your heat gun make sure you let it heat up for a good 30 seconds before you apply it and melt the embossing powder okay so you'll see now that gorgeous lovely shiny sentiments I'm just gonna trim it down around it so obviously depending on what sentiment you'll use this will vary for everyone but I'm just going to have a little bit poking out that's my guide then to get a nice even border then I'm just going to pop some foam onto the back of this one because you can add dimension now because this is all going on the lid and then I'm going to back it onto actually now I'm backing it onto the gold first so I'm just going to lay it in the corner with a nice even border and then wrap my trimmer and just finish that off on the sides and then I do another layer on the same colored card that I used for the box again give it the same border as the gold and white and then I'm gonna add foam again I was just looking at the other one I did I put foam on that one and then just sit that down in the center there okay so that's all stuck and then I've just got these here and the last two of the Ponsettias so I'm just going to add a little bit of my hot glue and just sit them just so it's kind of kind of hanging over the sentiment but I don't want it to obviously or any of it like so and then I was tearing then a few of the twigs and then I can just feed them underneath and then just kind of curl up the ends with your fingers just to finish it all off okay so if I bring that up you can see a little bit closer now you see the gorgeous Ponsettias and you can see the little bits or the sprigs that I've added in love all the shine you get and then again open it up and you have all of your chocolates you can just about see my very distorted face there as well but yeah thoroughly enjoyed making these I do like to do them and I know that these will be well received I just need to get the voucher there you could also do a little pocket corner pocket if you wanted to and you can pop a card in there as well so there's there's lots of ways and I know already some of you will already have ideas of your own and yeah I look forward to seeing them when you've made them because as always you can share all of your makes that are inspired by my tutorials over on the mixed up crafters Facebook group I will share it below all the links to everything I've used today will also be linked below and I'll be back very soon with more Christmas projects thanks for watching bye