 Hey 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 cute book style. I'm going to call it the Book of Chocolates rather than the Box of Chocolates. I'm going to call it the Book of Chocolates. I have something similar and I'll link it up here and throughout the video and that is a book again but it does really look like a book and I had two chocolate bars in that one. So again if it's something you like just check out that link. But this one here you just pull the belly band off and then it opens up to reveal your chocolates. And then you just open the top and out comes the top of it. Now I have done a tutorial using these chocolates before and I actually just done a simple wrap around them so you can check them out. But the good thing about these is obviously they're already sealed so they're going to stay nice and fresh and then you just pop it back in there, close up the top like so. It just closes up. You can personalize this, you can do so much with it and it's not just for Christmas, you can use this throughout the year as well. So let me show you how to make this very easy gift. Okay so I've already done one of the boxes here so that's all ready to attach to the next one. So that's the Toffifee and you just take that off and it's all in the box there or the tray but it's all sealed so it's obviously going to stay nice and fresh and then I am using the almost Christmas papers by Fest Edition. I haven't got a great deal left of this, I've actually used quite a lot which is great. And then your cutstocks, you'll want two pieces of this size which is nine and a quarter by eleven. Okay and along the nine and a quarter side you want to score it seven eighths of an inch, seven and seven eighths of an inch and eight and three quarters. Okay it's an unusual measurement because I've made it specifically for these chocolates and that's why I've got the seven eighths of an inch depth to this. And then pop it along the eleven inch side and you want to score it half an inch, one and three eighths, five and three quarters and six and five eighths. Okay so you can just make out all my score lines there so do that twice. I've got this little piece here which is for my belly band which is a piece of three and three eighths by two and three eighths and it's just so it fits this particular sentiment which is a simply creative. You've seen me feature these in a lot of my tutorials and I used them last year as well. I'll share them below, they're little wooden ones and they're beautiful. And then I'll give you your mats and layers while we're here as well. So this is for the front and back and this is four by six and five eighths. I've done it at four because I wanted to be able to get two of these from one sheet of the eight by eight in that pad. And then you'll want two pieces of five eighths of an inch by seven and five eighths and then two pieces of three and seven eighths of an inch by five eighths again. And therefore the sides. And then I'll go through the frame and everything when we get to it. And this is for the belly band, this was actually a piece of scrap and it's one inch by the whole width of the cardstock that I had which was twelve. But if you've got eleven or eleven and three quarters that would still work as well. And the dies I've used for the aperture when we add the acetate are the card making magic rectangle dies. Okay so first of all just fold and burnish all of those score lines. Okay and then along the bottom so you want the half inch tab on the right-hand side there's one of the sides and then you'll have this extra piece. Make sure that's on the right and then along the bottom you're just going to cut up all of these score lines just to the first score line. This one in the corner just remove that completely and then just take a little wedge off of the small little squares here. Okay and then work now along this side so this is that tab and you just want to cut down this score line here and remove the top tiny one and that other one there so just take that whole corner out and then you can take a little wedge off of each of the corners of the tab that's what we're going to use to stick it all together and now you're going to come along to the top here and you're going to do exactly the same as what you've done on the bottom but this time you're going to cut past the first score line and go down to the second. This extra tab at the top is so that we can close the box. So on there, that one there. Okay and what's going to happen is when we close this up this is going to be on the inside. So with that tab here on the right-hand side the whole section here you're going to remove completely. Okay like so and then these top sections these top squares you're just going to remove the little rectangle on the very top and that's all you want to do with them. We're cutting a little bit more in a bit but a lot of you will know that when you make these kind of boxes you want to do this bit right at the end really just to make sure you get a nice closure. Okay so now if you turn it over this is the inside and this is where we want to draw around our aperture so I've got these stuck together because I cut my frame. So to get a frame you just have whatever the original size is that you've cut your opening get the next size up in the dies and just stick them together like you saw then and then run it through whatever cardstock you're using that will cut your frame. But I want this smaller one and this one measures just grab my ruler so this one I'm going to be drawing around the outer side which is three and a quarter by five and five eighths and I'm just going to pop this one in this section here making sure I've got it in the middle. Okay I think that's about right make sure it's nice and straight and then you just want to draw around that. Okay so you can see my rectangle shape now I'm going to cut mine with my ruler and my cutting knife however if you don't have a cutting knife you can just make a hole in the middle and just cut down to each corner. With that I'm going to do that I've started so I might as well so just cut down to each corner like so and that one there and that one there and then I'll just go a bit further down on that one and then if you kind of fold as long as you've got them right into the corners if you kind of just fold back each one it just makes it a little bit easier to have kind of a line to follow I know we've got the pencil line there as well but this does help obviously you don't want to rip any of the corners there so do make sure you cut down into them nicely but by lifting them up it just makes it a little bit easier to get in and because I've got these very long scissors what I'm actually going to do is fold that one under but it now means I can get right in there and follow along that pencil line and don't worry if you don't remove it or you can always rub it out but you're actually not going to see this because it's going to be inside so I'm just going to work my way around okay so that's all done now if you have cut it by hand I mean I haven't done pretty badly you can see my corners they're pretty good so what you want to do next is some double sided tape or red tape and you just want to run a strip around your frame and then you just want a piece of acetate that is going to cover where you've just added your tape so just a little bit bigger I'm not going to bother giving you the measurements for this you can see what I'm doing plus everybody's aperture is going to be slightly different you might also have a different shape just make sure that you have something that's just going to cover and again you don't need to worry too much on how your edges look as long as they're straight because you're not going to see any of this now I've got that piece that's going to go over there so I'm just going to take my backing off and stick that down okay so now I have that lovely aperture then I've got my frame I'm going to stick this down while everything's flat so I've already put some of the tape on the back so I'm just going to stick this over the top okay so now that's all ready and next we can start putting it together so I'm going to flip it over fold this piece over and you just want to add some glue just along that's what I remembered you actually want to trim this I'm going to pop in the measurements that you didn't need the tab to be this big so I remember it came into the for me it came into the acetate window I mean yours might be smaller than mine and then it wouldn't so I've just trimmed that a bit you can see it doesn't come into this view here I think I might have even been able to have got rid of that actually but anyway I've just trimmed it off just in case so that's what you can do if that does happen and just make sure it's nice and flat and these are great boxes on their own you can just not stick the bottom now and just make a load of these and stash them away until you need them you might want to just do one of these boxes to give to someone I do already have this on the channel as I mentioned I've just done the wrap around it so they're just like I said they're really nice little gifts and then I'm just going to fold it back I've actually got some glue there just make sure that's dry and then just fold it that way like so and then the bottom is the one without that extra lip on the top so I'm going to fold down the back one first of all and just add my glue and then fold in each of the sides fold down the base and if you turn it up this way grab your ruler you can just go in there and spread out all of that glue okay and then I can grab this pop it in you'll see it fits perfectly and now with these pieces what you want to do is with the top very slightly shave a bit off and it's such a small amount really isn't a lot because you want this to now lock itself in now if you're still struggling with it what you can then do is take a little bit off just the front again as the smallest amount as soon as you make it too big you'll find your little closure might pop out so now that's now wedged in there it's not going to open you'll see you've got a nice closure okay next I can decorate so just make sure you've got them both the right way up because I've got a directional card so I'm just going to flip it over I'm going to stick this on the back and then I'm going to stick this one on the right hand side of this one but it's on the left hand side of that one so when they come up together like a book they meet the back one I'm not going to bother decorating you can do but I'm going to leave it for now and then that little one you just want to pop on the top okay so that's both of the boxes done so they're going to go together like this so you have your pattern paper on the top and the side is like facing you and the plane is away so it's going to open up like this so I've got this piece of cardstock which I believe was one in three quarters it's just under it's just over one in five eighths and just under one in three quarters and that's by seven you just want to score halfway so I could have sworn I'd scored at seven eighths of an inch yeah I think I did I don't know if this ruler's a little bit out anyway you want to fold and burnish like so so you've got it like that and we're going to stick it I mean you might not want to fold it you might want to just keep it flat and then fold it once you glue is completely dry but you're just going to stick it over there so I'm going to run my glue all the way along here and then I'm just going to sit this quite a lot of glue on there but I do want it to be nice and strong so keep them nice and tight together and basically do not even attempt to prise this book open until this glue's completely dry so I'm going to leave this now for a good ten minutes just to make sure that's completely set okay whilst that is pretty much dry but I'm going to give it still a few more minutes I'm going to grab my belly band and I'm going to wrap it I never score my belly bands I always just wrap them don't worry if it doesn't meet like I said if yours is 11 inches long you'll still be able to get it up to come over as long as it can come over onto this top piece keep it all nice and straight make sure they line up and just pinch the sides don't have it so tight you want to be able to slide it and then you're just going to stick that over on the two sides so I'm actually going to use hot glue for this just because it's a bit quicker so I'm just going to pop a piece there and a piece there and you can just pinch the other kind of sides and then if you take it off and then lie it flat just grab a bone folder and then you can really work those lines and it's just easier doing it this way rather than working out the score lines for it so they're always usually with a belly band they're those funny measurements because you're wrapping it around something but now I've got a really nice belly band so that can just go over the top you want it like I said to be snug enough but easy for that person to take off but now how nice does that look so let's now try and open this without the glue oh look what I've done there I thought I did go a bit heavy with the glue and I've got a feeling that that's going to stain I might be okay sometimes it does but anyway it is what it is there's not much I can do about it now they're going to be eaten I think pretty quickly but yeah look there it is I think that looks great so once again I just bring it up if you want to decorate this you can but I don't know I don't think it does and if you are doing this like more of a book then you could write something down here or I'll link actually the other book box unless I didn't already link it up here to you know gift some chocolates but yeah apart from that mark in the middle it's going to bug me now but I'm really not doing it once it's closed I can't see it anyway thank you for watching I hope you enjoy this tutorial and you know something that can be used not just for Christmas you know these chocolates are available all year round and obviously other chocolates can go in there too and other gifts so thanks for watching and I'll be back again very soon bye