 Hi everybody it's Sam and it's a crowd. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is another project using the February kit by Hobby Base and I have made another gift box using the six by six papers that you get in this month's pack. I think there was 10 sheets all together so these are the last four that I'm using so there's two on this one and then two on the one that I'm going to actually make. So I've got a few kind of little variations of what I've done here because this this month's kit comes with this gorgeous birdcage die which you would have seen me use on the gatefold card and what I've done with this one is heat embossed it but you can see I've just partially heat embossed it and that's just by painting the VersaMark which is your watercolor pigment this here and I just dabbed it with the paint brush and then painted it onto the birds and then just sprinkled my embossing powder over so it gives it a really nice effect. I've cut it out three times layered them on top of each other to create a really nice hard kind of like embellishment and basically you could pop that on top and then I just use the stamps that come with the kit which I show during the tutorial this one says especially for you and then I thought that could stick on top like so but I also wanted to show a way where you can use it with the butterfly die because I know for a lot of people that have been using I'm sorry that have been subscribed to the kit for some months they would have received the butterfly die which is this one here okay and I thought because the papers have got butterflies on them it would look really nice with the butterfly die so I'm just showing variations on how to decorate this box and again if you just sit that butterfly in the middle there and again have that sentiment on an angle do something like that it looks really really cute so those are just ways to decorate it closer up I'll bring the box up here you can see it's attached with a ribbon on both sides you can see the side view there and on the back it's different print paper so I've just just shown ways to kind of even if you don't have multiple prints you know sheets of the same print you can still mix different patterns together and they still look lovely so it's kind of that sweetie shape that I've done it's kind of evolved from that but I just wanted to show different ways of making really nice size boxes with six by six paper so this is using two sheets like I said from the pack those are the little ways to decorate it I'm also I've used the ribbon there that also came in the kit unfortunately I'm now out of that ribbon so I've used it on pretty much every project that I've made so far from this month's kit so again just showing other ways that you can make it so pop that to one side let me just show you what we're making today so the colors that I'm using so that was the ribbon that I had before so it was two meters so again I've used it all which is great that's why it's you get these kits you want to use all the stuff that you know that comes in them so that's now done and dusted but like I said you get the VersaMark you get this wow embossing powder you get your little stamp here these things will last you months and months even years so that's great and obviously your dies will last you you know however long and the stamps that you get as well which are this stamp set here okay and again I did mention that although this is a Valentine's themed kit this month you can use these stamps in other ways so I'm using these especially for you you know that now makes that a perfect little birthday box okay so it's you know that's not Valentine's Day at all so there are ways to use these kits away from what they are initially set up to be useful so that's the stamp set these are all the bits and pieces these are the last two pieces of the 606 paper that I've got I will share up here a little drop down of all the other projects that I've made from the February box just so you can see just how much you do get out of these monthly kits because they are really good so there's two sheets that I've got there and then I've just raided my scrap drawer and I've got a matching it was close as I can matching purple and I've just grabbed some purple ribbon as well okay so if you've still got the pinky color then great because that will work because it'll pull out the pink here and the butterflies um otherwise white would work really nice as well if you're the same as me if you run out of this white would go really nice with these papers also okay so okay pieces I'm going to use actually I'm going to use this piece because I think it will show up better in the video so pick one of the six inch size what I would say is um I guess it doesn't really matter too much with this box but this print these butterflies kind of go from left to right however I guess you would kind of look at the box this way so just play around with how you want the print to to sit really so these two score lines that I'm doing here you got one and a half and four and a half those are these two pieces here okay so you can see there that my print is facing upwards so with this first one with your one and a half and your four and a half score lines I would suggest that your print is facing the right way up okay then rotate it and you want to score at a quarter of an inch okay and then at one and three quarters of an inch so again you should have another little quarter of an inch tab and then another one and a half inch piece here okay repeat that again on the second piece I've already done mine and then we can get all of that burnished so just fold all of those score lines like so so that's what you should now have so it depends which one it doesn't really matter which is going to be your top or your bottom because you're going to see both of them um the same way I guess once we get to putting the um ribbon on then you can decide uh you know in more detail which way you want to do it so first of all we just need to do a little bit of cutting so I'm just grabbing my scissors here and if I again use this one here because it's easier to show up the lines so I've got the little quarter inch tab on the right hand side far right and then that piece here so you want to cut up this score line here at the bottom and just cut it up to that first score line like so and then again go to the outer one and just cut that up again just to the first score line and then you just want to remove that whole piece there that little thin one there all right you should have that and then as I always do just take a little bit of all of the sides there just so you're creating a little notch so you've got more of a tab effect there okay if you've got any lumpy bits left from where you had the score line just remove that as well just makes the closure for the box that little bit nicer and also um this is obviously going to be what you will see so again here if I bring this is these pieces here so you want that score line to be really nice okay like so um I'm just thinking actually I've told you to notch that you probably don't really need to because all these bits are doing is folding in but you can certainly just take a little bit off so if I rotate now and do this side and again if I just cut up this one here like so and again that one there I'm just going to remove that one completely like so and then with that one you can just leave it you don't really need to take anything off I am going to remove that score line like so because all that is is just going to be slotting inside like these ones they're just inside there so it's up to you there's no right or wrong that will work and so will that so there's one piece cut there you want to do that exactly the same way on this second piece okay so that's those two pieces now cut out you can see this one here like so all right and again here's that one there like so and you've got this little tab here now before we stick it all together what you want to do is flip that one up doesn't matter if it what what side it is for the minute just so they sandwich together okay like so and what you want to do don't worry about these pieces matching up but make sure that these big rectangle tabs match up with each other like so okay and then this is the one I've already done what you want to do so let me just fold away those ones for the minute so just for these two make sure that they are sitting over one another perfectly okay and then what you want to do is just grab a ruler that would you so the width of this piece here is one and a half so you want to want you want to come down to three quarters of an inch okay and just put a little marker there I've already marked with a pencil three quarters of the way and then pop your ruler down along this part and where you've marked at three quarters you want to mark at halfway so it's a four and a quarter inch piece so it'll be two and one eighth of an inch and again put a little marker there just so you get the middle point of that rectangle the center point then from that center point just come out by half an inch from each side okay so half an inch half an inch if I just bring this up you should be able to make out I've got two little pencil marks I've got a pencil mark there and a pencil mark there and there's the middle point so from that middle point you want to mark at half an inch and again half an inch and all that is again now making sure that they are perfectly lined up okay like so and then all we're going to do is hole punch over those half inch markers that we've put in place and by making sure these bottom pieces lined up perfectly you know that you're getting a perfect match okay like so so again now what I can do is just flip this one over sit it sit this one so we've just done those two together like so all right so I'm just removing one of them turning it over so now these two holes are here and put it over the top okay now I can just see them here and then I can just go over the top of these so rather than doing all that pencil marking again you don't need to that's that one and then this one I'll put underneath this side again making sure it's all perfectly lined up and then again I can just cut and put the hole punch over them so now I know when I this down I've got perfect mirrored hole punched holes so that when we put it all together we put the ribbon through it will all match up nicely okay so that's all of that prep done now then you need to grab some red tape okay so you're just going to put run some tape along your little tabs on the outside of each one take away the backing around that side and then I'm just going to sit this over so make sure that your score lines here and here line up with the tops of that tab and also the top and the bottom of your actual ace six by six sheet should all line up nicely as well like so and just want to make sure you get a really nice join and this all matches up you flip it over fold this one over and again just remove that backing and then bring this one over and again just sit that all down like so so now when you bring it all up you will have this box shape and then all you have to do is fold in these sides you see what I mean it didn't matter really that you didn't kind of notch them too much bring down those two and then just kind of curving it until they sandwich together like so and again so they will go together better once you put the ribbon through but that's what you want you can see now this you know shape come together the actual box itself you can put it down so you could have a box just like that if you want a simple you know square box this comes in measures at three by four or just over just over three by four so again it's a really nice size as well so now let's do the decoration so I have already got I'm not going to die cut the butterflies or the Burkage again because I've already showed you but I am just going to heat emboss the little sentiment here so as I mentioned here and then I've got just a scrap piece of card and again I'm just going to pop some of my anti-static powder over the top there just to remove any of the marks and then use that in a second so just with some VersaMark I'm just going to ink up my sentiment okay and then just stamp that so this is the especially for you one which is uh this one right at the very bottom here it's a really nice stamp set I think I said before I think it was 15 14 or 15 stamps so again it's a really good set so just make sure that's all stuck down and then using the this is the Shampa's Wow embossing powder that comes with the kit and I'm just going to sprinkle this over here just knocking off any excess and this is really subtle which just gives it a really nice shine again when it catches the light you can see it you might not pick it up so well in the camera but you can make it out there when it hits the light it's a really nice little sentiment there so just going to pop that I've got my heat gun here just make sure it gets nice and hot first okay so that is now all nicely set you can just see it catching the camera there all right and then you can die cut this or run it through your trimmer I'm just going to freehand cut this just a nice straight line straight as you can get it like I said if you're not confident doing it this way then just run it through your trimmer and then the good thing with these boxes as well is that you can make them now and they will you can store them flat so like so just you can keep it stored like that and keep the ribbon that you're going to use for it just inside so it's always nice if you just like making things and you haven't always got someone to give them to straight away it's always nice if they can be stored which these can okay so that's fine a little bit wonky I think but hey ho and then I've just got some of this scrap card and I'm just going to put my tape along the back there if you want to put it on some foam you can do like so pop it into the corner so already two of your sides for your little like frame are already done like so and then you just need to cut the other two sides like so so now you see if I keep it down there you can probably see a bit better you've got a nice framed sentiment okay so now with our ribbon so I've got two pieces here these measure roughly 12 inches so decide now this is when I said you know now is the time to decide where which you want to be atop of your bottom obviously your bow is going to be tied up this way so you've got that side or you've got that side and I think I'm going to use this side because I think the bow the butterfly sorry yeah you can see the butterfly much more on this side than you can the other you can see they complement each other they're the same print from the same pack so it all works really well together now what you can also do is you you're only going to open this from one side but I guess the person you give it to you won't really know what side that is that you're going to open it from so um I would say maybe don't glue one side down I was just going to say maybe you could glue one down but I probably wouldn't so starting from the bottom here just thread through your ribbon so do both sides like so and then again thread it through to the top like so and then just tie it in a nice bow okay so there's one of the bows down you can just kind of move it around so it all lines up and stays in place and I'm just gonna and again just tidy that end up like so I'll just bring that up there you can see how that's all come together okay so now you would obviously put in whatever it is that you're gonna gift and then just want to do the same with the other end I just need to rub out that pencil mark there as well okay so I now bring that up you can see what a really cool unusual box that you get so now I just need to finish it off with decorations I think it was that way there so this one I am going to stick this bow um I keep saying bow I don't know why I'm saying bow I'm going to stick the butterfly um if you want to layer it up a bit more and you die cut a couple of butterflies you can do um as I've done in other tutorials before but I'm just going to do the one and just position it however you want to sit it like so and then this one here I think I might put it on some foam backing actually I've got some here and then we're going to have that you get the bottom no it's going to go at the top there just again on an angle okay because I have it so I've just um stuck all that one down there so you can see how pretty that looks and all the sides so you just open up one end with the bow oh you can rip it open if some of you saw my recent facebook um uh little photos I put up I put up one of the box that my nan ripped apart and um I just joked and said how it was like um you know it was a real sad moment kind of see all that hard work just ripped apart but then I joked and said it was actually really nice to see my nan was so happy to receive it and that's what it's all about for me I'm not too fast about where these things kind of end up as long as they bring joy to people which is why we do it so um yeah so they could be ripped apart or undone with the bow and then I've stuck this one down now so you can just see how that one finishes off nicely there with the bird um cage which is what is the actual die that comes with the kit but as I mentioned before if you do have the butterfly die um from previous kits then you can add that to it as well and if you don't have the kits and you're just watching this normally you can just use any six by six papers and any dies and ribbons and stuff of your choice but if you are also interested in joining the hobby um base club which is to receive the monthly um kits then just follow the links that I will share with you all below so there is um 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