Handmade Gift Box Tutorial

Hello friends, yesterday was a wonderful day. The GPA of the last semester was announced! And the result is not bad ^^

Yesterday I made a gift box, it was my very first handmade gift box and I satisfied with the result although it’s still not neatly. Here, I wanna share the tutorial. Well, actually I think we may not call it as tutorial since it’s a very simple way, all you have to do and all you need to make a handmade giftbox just patience and persistence. Ok, let’s see the materials you need and the steps below.

What you need :

• Paper board (I used 2mm thick)
• All purpose adhesive
• Cutter
• Scisor
• Ruler and pencil
• White glue
• Patterned paper/wrapping paper
• Colored paper (I used 200gsm paper in gray)
• Some paper to make the ornament (paper roses and leaves)

Steps :

• Make a gift box pattern, just like a cube pattern but its sides are only 5. (I made a 7cm box, so I measure each side as 7cm.) Then, cut the pattern using a ruler and cutter.

• Fold the dotted lines. Use cutter to helps you fold the lines, cut a bit of its thickness. I mean, scratch your cutter on the paper board for two or three times to make scoring marks along the lines to help in folding. Then, you can fold it easily

• Apply adhesive along the every edges of the sides so that each side sticking to each other.

• Cut patterned paper or wrapping paper like the picture below :

• Glue the paper on the surface of the box and tidy up the top.

• Now, let’s make the other part, the upper one. Actually, the steps are same, the difference is in box pattern measurement. The cover should be wider, so I give extra 5mm each sides from the previous size. Take a look to the picture below :

• The next steps are exactly same with the last one (step 2 to 5)
• Taraaaa, you’ve finished your handmade gift box

• Now, let’s make the ornament on it. You can use ribbon, paper quilling, or whatever you like. I choose paper roses and its leaves. You can see the tutorial on how tomake paper roses here. For the leaves, actually I just practiced what Manu did, click here for her tutorial. She is such a greaaaat quiller, I do love all of her work so much.

Well, that’s all, simple isn’t it? It just like a piece of cake, I mean the technique. But yes, for me it’s incredibly time consuming, I need 4 hours to finish it. Anyway, big thanks to read this tutorial. I hope this is helpful, and I really sorry about my English. I keep learning on English but I am not sure that the sentences I wrote are gramatically correct. Hehe.

Happy crafting!