 Hi everybody it's Sam and it's that graph. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is a really nice simple reinforced gift box. My dad actually asked me to make him one. This is a gift that he is that he's purchased for a competition that he's doing within the Port of Plymouth canoeing association that he's a member of. So him and his kayaking friends have entered lots of pitches into a photograph competition and the prize my dad's part of the committee so he's chosen the prize and it is this very heavy very gorgeous obviously a sea theme as you can tell that with the lovely little dies and then in here is this hand blown jellyfish paperweight and it's absolutely stunning. Again I'll share the links if anybody's interested in this kind of thing because it is I think it's such a lovely gift and it's relevant to obviously being in the sea at one with the water so this is incredibly heavy you heard me then when I dropped it down so that's why I wanted to use the craft card and reinforce everything so this is a very solid box with four layers of card on the bottom there and yeah it's just perfect for this and I just think it all keeps in tone it's really natural really rustic you can obviously make this box in anything you want but this is just showing you the designer done and I've used the rope there again because I just think it's got a really nautical feel about it so that's what we're going to make today so let's go on. So these are the dies that I'm using this is my mum's stash so she got these two here are from a very old magazine well the issues old the card makers collection again I'll find who stocks it and you might be able to still pick it up on eBay and stuff but yeah these ones so the shell and the anchor is from the magazine and then the bird in the lighthouse and the other lighthouse shoes think she got from eBay but again I'll try and find links so what I've done is I've die-cut them all three times and now you can hear they are solid almost like chipboard little pieces now so there's that one the little shell I bring them all up there actually you can see how cute they are so they're going to be the decoration for this and as I mentioned it's it's a real kind of simple piece because that I wanted it's kind of keeping keeping with the the paperweight so that's why I'm using my favorite craft card so you need three pieces you need one piece of seven and a half by sorry two pieces of seven so this is a for standard length so it's 11 and five eighths of an inch by seven and a half two pieces of that and then you need to one piece sorry for the lid which is seven and five eighths of an inch squared okay so I've already prepared one okay grab one of your seven and a half by a four so mine like I said it is eleven and five eighths of an inch and you want to score at three and a half all the way down and at seven all the way down then rotate it and you want to score at three inches making sure that that a half inch tab is on the bottom here okay then flip the whole thing around this way and score at three and a half okay don't ask me why I've done that I just have I think it was because of the I was trying to work out how to get the most folded inside and it was the measurements were slightly out and because it's a full card sometimes that is five and three quarters and sometimes it's far and sorry 11 and three quarters or 11 five eighths of an inch so just follow what I did there anyway it's easy okay so now we just need to do some cuttings and then with the tab on the right hand side you want to cut up that middle score line and I'm just removing the bulk like so just so it's easy to put together you can see now I've got that gap there and again then on this little half inch tab just cut up there and then just notch that out like so and then go along here to the next score line and again just notching that one out and this will help because the shorter so the three and a half by three and a half so the tabs now on my left hand side these three and a half by three and a half squares that are the base these slightly shorter ones of the bits that's going to be reinforced and by removing that little bit off here when you fold them and then and put it on a side you'll get a nice join whereas if you didn't cut that bit off it would be really all like bulky so we're gonna be sticking these down inside themselves just to make it nice and strong okay so you want to do that twice so you then have two pieces like this then grab your lid so this was that piece of seven and five eighths of an inch squared and pick a side and you want to score it one two and then five and five eighths of an inch and six and five eighths of an inch and rotate again and score the same so one two five and five eighths of an inch and six and five eighths of an inch okay and you should have that grid effect with the large square in the middle this is just a standard reinforced lid okay and again just go along and furnish all of those score lines okay and then what you want to do any side to start with you've got these four squares all together there that little grouping we're gonna just cut right the way down like so and again down so we've just cut down both of them okay then rotate it and cut this one out completely as I've cut it I'm just kind of cutting it on an angle there again because we'll be folding this all in on each other so now you just have this one piece and then just cut that top square off and then you just want to make little tabs now so just take some little chunks off the corners there and then again on this top one just notch that off a bit go along to this one here and again cut all the way down and just tidy that one up cut down the next one rotate notch this one out and again remove that one make that into a little tab like so okay rotate the whole thing and you want to just do exactly that now okay so that's now what you should have as the shape for your lid now we need to just put that together so I'm just grabbing some of my glue here and basically what we're gonna do is put glue on the tops of these little tabs here and fold all those in and then we just fold in the longer tabs on top of that so squeezing some glue out this is nearly on its way out do those two at the same time so just bring them around like so bring that one down again just hold those two together just make sure you got really nice right angles you can wipe off any glue and stuff okay so you can see now I've got that nice lid coming together and then just do the same on the other two okay so that's now the top of it and then we just need to put all these bits inside to reinforce it so pop some glue again you don't need to go too crazy just enough to kind of stick it in place like so and then fold that whole piece inside pop it on its side and with your bone tool just go over and spread all of that glue out and at the same time you'll burnish that edge even more and it'll just give it a really nice finish so you can see now and that once that glue dries that become really strong so again just go around each of those sides now just fold them all in on each other okay so now you've got a really strong little reinforced lid so now we just need to put the main case together so first of all you want to stick tabs so I'm just gonna you can use red tape for this if you want but I'm just gonna use my glue just to keep making it obviously very very strong now before we stick this one no we do this one first sorry so yes just stick that one over the top here like so again just using your bone tool you can see there when I run it over it squeezes out any glue so I can just make sure get a really nice join and as I always say that's why I love using the craft card because it just hides all that glue you never even notice it like so just turn it over and just again rub out any glue there so now these two middle ones making sure we do the right one so now you just stuck it down that way and this tab and this tab were on your left hand side flip it over so now the tabs are on the right hand side and that means all of these ones at the bottom are your three and a half by three and a half squares that's the base these ones here are all slightly shorter and these are the ones that are going to fold in on top you know on top themselves so these two in the middle because we've stuck this tab together now we can and actually we can do this third one as well so we can stick all three of these down and then just that one at this end here we have to wait till the end when we've put it all together so just just like you did for the reinforced lid you really get it on the edges like so and then just fold each one down and then with your bone tool just go along making sure that the top there is nicely burnished and all stuck down nicely like I said by cutting off all those little bits on the edges you can see there's little gaps here so now when I bring that up on its side it fills in perfectly like so now what we want to do is stick this one down here and then we will fold that one in so pop some glue again on here like so fold this one completely down and then fold this one over leaving this one up and then we can pop some glue on and then you're going to fold that one inside and again just using your bone tool now all we need to do is stick down our base and all of these will fold in like so so just decide if you've got a preference to what you want to be the front I'm going to say this is my back here so with this being the back I want this piece to go down last so I'm going to stick one of the sides in first and just focusing the glue on the edges mainly fold that one over like so then this one's going to go down because this is the back so again just put the glue all around the edges fold that one down so there are four layers of card on that base with that glue in between each one when that dries it will become incredibly solid and it will hold very heavy things so it was perfect for this paperweight so and then remember what was my front get your lid and it will fit on really snug like so and they just got a really straightforward simple but incredibly strong reinforced box now I just need to decorate it my little lighthouse and put my seashell and just put a little bit of glue just to make sure all these sticks in place just rub some of that off so it doesn't really come out over the edges one can go like so my bird obviously don't want to go too high with the bird because you've got your fact if I put the lid on there then I know exactly so there you have it so that is a really straightforward reinforced box that measures three and a half by three and a half and in height it is my mat's upside down one two three four five just five by three and a half box so this is a great one for candles anything heavy paper weights obviously and anything else you might find for it so they have it hope you enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up if you did and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching