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I am hoping to share a series of box/gift tutorials with you over the next few Friday’s. Today’s tutorial is based on a demo that I saw on Ideal World, demonstrated by Sara from a company called Crafter’s Companion. I have slightly adapted it for the sake of this tutorial, as the original required the use of a particular scoring board that their company sell, but not everyone has this board.
The finished box will look like this;
You Will Need
- A piece of decorative square card
- A piece of colour coordinating ribbon
- Steel Ruler
- Scoring tool
- Bone Folder
- Crop-A-Dile or other hole punch
- Optional extra; A scoring board such as a Scor It
Method
- Score your card into thirds
- Rotate the card 90 degrees and score into thirds again
- On each of the corner squares score a diagonal line from the outer edge into the corner of the centre square. (This is shown with a dotted line in the picture below)
Your card will now look like this;
- Fold along all the lines and reinforce the folds using a bone folder.
- Fold in the corner squares as shown in the picture below
- Use the hole punch to punch a hole through both sides of the folded corner.
Your box now looks like this;
- Thread your chosen ribbon through the holes and draw the ends together. This pulls in the sides of the box, tie the ends of the ribbon into a bow.
Your finished box will look like this;
I did not include measurements in the instructions as this box can be made in any size and the measurements of where to score will be in thirds relative to the paper size. However for those who would like the measurements for popular sizes of card
12 x 12 starting size of paper would be scored at 4″ and 8″
6 x 6″ starting size of paper would be scored at 2″ and 4″
If you are not near a craft store for decorative card you can use craft CDs that contain background papers and print on to A4 cardstock to create your base card, don’t forget to print on both sides of the card as both are visiable in the finished project. With a little trimming to get round non borderless printing from most home printers you would still be able to make a maximum of an 8″ square starting size of card.
The Smaller size of box made from a 6″ base card would make ideal individual boxes suitable for table settings. I will show a smaller version later next month.
As ever any questions just leave me a comment, best wishes and thanks for reading. See you soon
Billie 😉
Great tutorial babes – really clear and easy to follow. Would make good jewellery boxes these! Lol Lynn x
Very cute!
I just got a crop-a-dile big bite, this might be it’s first use!
Thanks for the nice comments everyone.
Hey Kiley my best tip for either of the Crop-a-diles is to HIDE any thing that you don’t want holes in, BEFORE you take it out of the packet. The Crop-a-diles really will bite through all sorts of things and once you start there is a strong urge to ‘challenge’ this tool with things from around the house. Fun but excitement can lead you into perforating more things than you originally intended. hehehe
Its a great tool though, and will bite through leather too 😉
Hugs
Billie 🙂
I got mine to eat board with. I don’t know if the smaller ones do it but the big one eats wonderfully clean holes in book board!
No more awl holes on my books! I’ve been to busy to sit down and use mine, but I used a friends at our last book arts meeting and I had to have one. I think it’s first book use will be for my submission for grad school. This week is the artist trade show at my fav local store and everything will be 25% off so I’m gonna get the ink I need and hopefully start screening next weekend. I might also be purchasing a board cutter! We’ll have to see how easy it is to use first…
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