 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really nice reinforced gift box. Now I have made something similar before and I will link that in up here. It was a Mother's Day box that I've done but this time it has the flap coming over the front and the back so it's just got a kind of a different finish and then I finished it with that huge bow which I think really sets it off. So yeah it's got a slightly different construction as that one but I will link that in as well because you may well like that one too. So this one I am making as part of the social papercraft and magazine which is out today so I will also link that in the description box below. And one of the features that I was asked to do for this issue was to do a Pinterest make. So basically we look at something that we see on Pinterest that we like and then we make it. So I found this box here so you can just see it's got this really nice reinforced with the flap and the bow and that is how I've come up with this one. So there's my inspiration on Pinterest and here is my final one. And then you just open it up and inside you can see there I've also continued this lovely paper which is the first edition Happy Jolly holidays. There it is it's amazing you will see me be using this now all through Christmas along with the hell's couple ditch one as well but this is just gorgeous yeah jolly holiday. So that's that one and then yeah there it is. So it's a really really nice one to make and then that just comes down so it doesn't completely come down to the bottom. You can see it just so you can get both bits of the ribbon and it's just a really nice. This would be perfect for a nice silk scarf, a necklace, some like leather gloves or just normal like knitted gloves. All kinds of Christmassy gifts like I said jewelry and you know even fancy chocolates and stuff like that. It's a really nice six by six size inside so it's a good one. Okay so to make it you are going to need so I've already gone ahead and already done my kind of topper and I'll go through the measurements for that in a bit but I finished it with this also amazing stamp which is by Woodware. I might just grab it behind me here you'll see this being used a lot as well and it's the Woodware Craft Collection Clear Magic Singles. I do have a lot of the Woodware stamps because they're just so nice they're photopolymer and they just stamp beautifully I mean you can see that and it's I wanted big Christmas sentiments this year to put on tags and things like that so I've got Merry Christmas, Happy Christmas and Season's Greetings so yeah really really good and again all of this and all the supplies will be linked on my blog and you'll be able to find that okay so again I'll go through those measurements when we get to that bit along with that but what we do first of all is get straight into the box so there's actually two parts so the box is on its own and then the lid and the base are separate as well so it does become a very very strong gift box so what you want to do is with a piece of 12 by 12 I'm using plain because I'm decorating it with pattern paper on the top but there's no reason why you can't use pattern paper for this so these are 12 by 12 and you just want to score one and a half and three inches on all four sides okay so one and a half and three and again one and a half and three and then lastly one and a half and three okay so then we're going to go ahead and burnish all of those score lines okay so I've burnished all my score lines so now we're going to cut into this just as we would with any reinforced gift box so you always will have four squares in the corners here see the four squares okay so start on any side it doesn't matter but we're going to cut up both of those score lines to the second score line so down past this one and to that one there so you're cutting those kind of four squares so they're just kind of hanging now so I've got two there and two there then I'm just going to rotate it and I'm going to cut the outer ones completely away so those two now will be away like so okay and then this one here just cut off so now we're just left with one one by one square one and a half by one and a half square sorry just in the corner like so okay I'll just hold that there so you know what you're doing all right and again I'll go across to this one and cut down again both of those score lines so down to the second score line again like so turn it to the side and totally remove the outer two and then just remove that one there okay so again if I just turn it back and lie it down that is now what you should have is these two like this you'll have two long sides here and then this one then you're going to rotate the whole thing around so that's now facing away from you and repeat again so I'll show you again in this corner here so you're just cutting up down to that second score line and again the outer ones you're completely removing and then that single one okay and then again on this one here okay so that is now the shape that you should have but when you've done that just go around on all those one and a half by one and a half inch squares and just take wedges off of each side so they look more like that shape okay so I'm just going to do that on all four okay so you can see now I've got these little tabs okay and then what I also like to do is just very very slightly on the outer long ones is just take a little kind of slither off I'm really almost just removing any score line that may be visible because this is going to be folded in on itself it can be quite kind of thick within that corner so just by taking off these little bits we'll just take off any you know kind of bulk that you may have so just like I said it seems you know minimal but it will make a difference and again that one there okay so if I just keep that there for the minute that is where you need to be okay now those of you that do this all the time straight away you won't even be listening to me now you'll just be straight into it but what you want to do is add glue to the tops of these four tabs now you can do them all at the same time if you want I always tend to do them one at a time and you can also use double sided tape here as well but you just want to pop some glue just on the tab there and then you're going to fold that down and bring a side up around and just hold that there for a minute while it all sticks down okay and there we've got a really nice right angle make sure you don't go over you're not pulling it in or anything like that it's got to be a nice sharp right angle and then all your angles will stay nice all the way around and then make folding all of this in a lot easier as well someone's screeching their car outside if you just heard that scared me okay and then again with that one I'm just going to fold it down and bring it around the other side there and just repeat that on all of your corners okay so that is now where you should be so you have all your corners stuck down there I think that one's still a bit wet there we go so now what you want to do is pop it on one of the sides it doesn't matter which one and just put glue all inside where the tabs are there just pop some glue in there and you don't need to go right into the corners or anything like that just enough glue to just hold this down so now you're going to fold in one of the sides okay and then with my bone folder I'm just going to take that in there and just rub that down and just spread out that glue and you can really crease and burnish the side of your box as well okay so you see there you get a really nice side now once my glue dries that will be really really strong as well so then go around and do the next one again just rub the glue inside like so and fold in the next one and just repeat that on all of the four sides okay so now we have a nice strong box now these reinforced boxes are always good if you've maybe not got a very very thick card because if you imagine you're folding them over on each other which is making them thicker so it's a good way for you to make stronger boxes um that way then also we'll make the base strong now because it's also going to be stuck on more card in a minute but this um paper that I'm now going to pop inside this is five and three quarters by five and three quarters so it just gives you a quarter inch border all the way around but that will also add more strength now you could have you know some something personalised there if you wanted so whoever lifts the gift up it then says something it's entirely up to you but I'm just I wanted to use all of that it was a 12 by 12 paper um paper that I've used so I just like to kind of get as much out of it as I can and then the rest I fussy cut so I've actually fussy cut all these crackers out of the leftover ready for another project okay so just move that around so it's nice and straight there we go so that is our box okay really nice so I'm going to leave that to one side now just kind of let that set and then we can move on to our lid and our base so grab your scoreboard okay so first of all we are going to do the base so this is a piece of nine and one-eighth of an inch by six and a half okay and what you want to do is if you've watched my other tutorial where I used the green card here to show you how to basically when you need to kind of make something either go around something or go inside something but you need it to be a really really tight fit you usually need to pull the card out a little bit and by using this green card here which is just a piece of cardstock that I've folded in half pop it into the corner of your scoreboard and then pop your cardstock up to the like butt it up to it then remove the cardstock cardstock and you will see a tiny piece of your scoreboard that's what you want okay so I just usually you've seen me in tutorials before I just pull the card out slightly you can do that if you want but you need to make sure that you're consistent it doesn't really matter too much because we're only doing it once on this piece and then once on the other piece but if you've got that piece that I told you to keep then use that for this so I'm going to pop my green card in there and then pop my cardstock and then I'm going to remove that and you want to score at one and five eighths of an inch okay so one and five eighths like so and then just push that cardstock back in so it's nice and flush and you're going to score at seven and five eighths of an inch okay so just those two there now what that's going to do so if I just fold because this is our base that we're doing so I'm just going to burnish and again that one there so when we get our base now we can sit that inside and that card perfectly wraps around this base okay so there you go once it's stuck down that you get a really nice kind of wrap and that's just because we extended this base here so this width this distance now from here to here is six and one sixteenth of an inch okay so it's that sixteenth inch of a bit I am preparing a tutorial on this because when I asked you lot if you would like me to do an in-depth tutorial about measurements and all that kind of stuff you a lot of you have said you would like to and I've received quite a few emails as well so because this is six by six we need this to wrap around and if you kept that as six it just wouldn't look it would buckle and it would just wouldn't look nice but by just extending it by that one sixteenth that little bit it will just give you that nice wrap there okay so that is going to sit on the bottom make sure got my crackers facing the right way this back piece we are going to stick flush against the back and this piece we're going to keep down for the time being because we're going to conceal our ribbon behind it or whatever it is that you may be using but we will get to that in a second so then you want to grab that other piece okay and this piece here is eight and five eighths of an inch by six and a half and we're going to do exactly the same thing so grab that piece of cardstock pop it inside here in the corner I'm just resting my cardstock in there and then pull that away and you're going to score at one and one of five eighths yep same again so one and five eighths of an inch and then push it back in and score at seven and five eighths of an inch now this one's slightly shorter at the end so that's the difference between the two if you do get them mixed up this one will be shorter and that's because and that's the longer piece is the back that shorter piece is this piece here okay so let me just furnish that nicely like so right get rid of your scoreboard that's everything done there okay so now we can start putting it all together and decorating it now that's shorter piece at the front I like to just round off my edges so I've just got my corner punch here you don't have to really doesn't matter you might want to decorate it with some of the metal corner protectors as well you can do that but there we've got that so this is the bottom make sure whatever it is that you've got facing you this is the back this is going to stick directly down this back piece is then going to stick over the top so we've got like a quadruple enforced a back there because there's four pieces of cardstock all together and then this will go and sit perfectly and this is what I mean about having that really flush once that's all stuck you've got a really flush wrap around that box that will sit over the top like so and that's going to be our lid but we're going to reinforce that obviously as well so first of all I would say put your glue all on your base okay so I'm just going to do that okay and then sit it in and it will sit perfectly from score line to score line but then what you want to do is make sure you've got a quarter of an inch overhang on both sides because this is six by six base this is six and a half wide so you'll have quarter inch this side and a quarter inch that side so just make sure you've got all your corners really stuck down so I'm just using my ruler there just to get right up to all those corners okay so again once that dries but that's a really really strong base there okay so it won't matter at this moment because they're both the same that one is coming over ever so slightly so I am just going to go along and just take a little slither a tiny bit just want to get it flush there you're not going to see this so don't worry if it's a little bit wonky I just want to tidy that up a little bit just so it doesn't interfere just have a look just make sure yeah that's better it's nice and flush okay so which way was my crackers that way so now I need to stick down glue on here don't stick the glue on this piece because it's longer and you're more likely to you know have your glue kind of going over to this bit which is going to be exposed so always stick your glue on the actual box itself because that's all the area that you need to be stuck down okay and then just fold that bit over pop it on its side and again just use your bone folder there just to kind of apply pressure and just get that all nice and stuck down okay so you can see now should be nice and flat nice and flush and again really strong now what you want to do is this one is going to stick over the top at the back so that shorter piece will be here at the front okay so what you can do with this piece is you can put blue on all of that because it is going to stick to the back okay so pop it on and just line up your score line so it's nice and flush and then put the back down you can obviously that's why I like using the wet glue because you do have that little wiggle room and again pop it on its side you can just make sure that's all nice and straight okay so now that is everything stuck down I'm going to bring around the front there that is completely flush and once we've got our lid on as well that will all lie nice okay so yeah really I think straightforward to make so I'm going to add this on now because it just makes it sit better so this piece here the white piece because remember this inside is six by six but this is longer it's still six inches that way so these aren't exact squares so the white piece is six and a quarter by five and three quarters and then the pattern paper on top is six by five and a half okay and then that just sits on and it has the same frame there that it does on the white as it does on the pink so I'm just going to stick that down and like I said that sentiment was the woodware one and I've just used some of my rectangle stitched frame dice to decorate that was really hard for me I was really concentrating on the glue you know what I'm trying to say okay just get that all nice and stuck down okay so see what I mean now that just drops down because it's got the weight so you may want to do one of those big bows on top that would look really good actually I'll link that up here the big bows if you're new to the channel then you'll want to maybe check this out otherwise you guys you know what I'm talking about but that can you imagine on top would look really really cool okay so that's that done then it's just the ribbon now now you may want to add magnets so you would put your magnet here you'd have to put them pattern paper over the top and then again a magnet and then conceal it but that would work really nicely there as well but because it's a Christmas gift my husband does pry and everything I'm making now is for family and for my husband they're all going to be you know gift wrapping you know boxes and bags for the gifts that I'm going to be giving to people so you know whether my husband will have this one because it's pink but he most probably have this one here or someone will um what you can do and what I tend to do and I say this and some people are like no no no no I will actually put salatate under here so that is stuck down so even if someone undoes the ribbon they're going to have to rip it and then people would know that they've gone into it earlier um I don't expect these to be kept it's the whole point for me at Christmas as you rip your presents and you get into it and you have fun so yes I'm not precious as you can probably tell I love doing this but um do I expect it to all be kept no mini albums and things like that are different but when it comes to wrapping and gift boxes that's what it's for so anyway I've gone on there right so I'm using a hole punch so I'm just going to pop this on here let me just yeah so you just want to as centered as possible so this will be at three and what did we say this was this was six and a six and a half so three and a quarter is where you want to be popping your Velcro or like I said hole punch magnets whatever it is so I'm just eyeballing this there we go um then what I also done is I die cut a little circle here and I'm just going to pop the same hole just in the middle with the hole punch there and then that will just decorate it now you can use your um metal eyelets or grommets but I just liked this I just thought it's another nice way to show you how you can decorate even your kind of hole punched holes if you don't have you know things like this then that's another way to do it so you could just pop one of these on if you wanted to just to give it a little something okay so I'm going to just get that stuck around there okay so that's all stuck down now I also forgot to mention because this is going to be stuck once we've popped our ribbon in there so that will all be concealed we need to conceal the ribbon on the back of this piece you just need a strip here and this is three quarters of an inch by six and a quarter okay and that will sit inside like so now I just need to round off my corners again there just so it all matches up if you see now that's going to just go inside nice and neatly and it will just conceal that ribbon so now we can do that bit next so I'm going to do the bottom first so you need to make another hole punch and this one here see I this is when I use this screw punch so because I come down further then my hole punch will allow me so again you want to be at three and a quarter so in the middle and I'm coming down to let me do it and then I'll tell you so this is one inch bang on okay so just come down one inch because basically when that flap comes over can you see there you want the ribbon to be able to come out and then go around all right so if you don't have this just grab a little pin thing here and pop that on and use your poke tool and go through and do it that way because you're using ribbon you're not really going to see whether it was a hole punch hole or not so you know I wouldn't worry too much and then like I said you could also pop one of them on there as well and that will tidy it up okay so I've got my ribbon this is really thick two inch ribbon this was on a 12 meter roll from the range and I got it last year but I'm sure they will still have more in there it's such a bargain it was a pound as well it's amazing and it's really nice fabric so I'm going to be having 16 inches so you'll need two lots but it depends what you want how big your bow is and everything else so that's just what I'm using so I'm just going to squeeze the ends pop it in just kind of help it through because I don't want to rip my hole once it's in place it's fine like so and then pull it back out until you just got a little bit sticking out really small amount like half half an inch okay see what I've got there and then just going to grab my hot glue okay and then I'm just going to run a bit of hot glue around the top there I still haven't got any clear glue sticks yet but it doesn't matter you're not going to see any of this and then I'm just going to stick try not to get it on my fingers but you want that ribbon to be as flat as possible you want it really really flat so I'm just really pushing it into that glue the glue gun wasn't completely heated up so it wasn't actually it was warm enough to be obviously used but not to burn me don't worry I haven't got asbestos fingers okay just cut off any loose bits there like so and then I'm just going to use my normal wet glue make sure that's all lying nice there and pop my glue all on this piece because obviously again you know that that's the area that needs to be stuck like so and then I'm just going to put some hot glue again just on that fabric because hot glue is really good to stick and then just focus on that bit first with that bulk here and just really push it down and then just make sure the rest of that's all nice and stuck down okay so now when I bring that up there's the ribbon all nicely concealed and you see what I mean you wouldn't know if you'd used this or not you can't tell because the ribbon is so thick so now I'm going to do this one and do exactly the same thing so again grab my ribbon you want to go in from the front and just again that will protect it that little white circle that I put on so it went through really easily again just make sure you've got about half an inch just kind of underneath there probably even a little bit less because it's a thinner you just want enough just to stick it in there so I'm just going to pop some of my hot glue on the bottom just stick it down making sure it doesn't go over that score line okay you can see there what I've done so it's just stuck within that area there okay and then again what you want to do now is with that piece there so just want to make sure I get all those little loose hairy bits there so I'm going to add some glue to this like so I'm going to add some hot glue again on that fabric and then just get that stuck over the top there okay so that's that all stuck down I don't know why that's just appeared let's pop that over there and then you just need to tie up so that's it done so I mean that looks like quite a lot but once that bows all tied up then I'll tidy off the ends and stuff but that is how you make the box so I'm just going to get my bow done so there you have it really really cute I love the bows on these I love big ribbon bows they are a bit of a bugger to tie but once you kind of fiddle around with them a bit and stuff they look lovely and yeah really like it love the papers love that beautiful big sentiment there and it's just a really nice reinforced box that's definitely going to get used so I hope you like this hope you check out the social papercraft magazine which again will be linked below there's going to be lots of Christmas inspiration in this issue so do go and check it out and I will be back again soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye