How to make gift boxes for yourself

It is often said that a beautiful package is already half the gift. And this is actually so. Modern materials, tools and techniques of work allow you to create real masterpieces. Read how to make gift boxes for yourself. This kind of creativity can be for you not only useful, but also very interesting and fascinating. See the ideas, choose the samples you like. Create an exclusive by yourself.

Make your own gift box: ideas and options

You can create beautiful packaging in two different ways:

1. Decorate the finished cardboard base.
2. Run the product from scratch.

In the first case, you will need to find a workpiece of the appropriate size and shape, if you want to get something unusual. This method of operation is quite simple, since you do not need to think about how to create a solid, neat design with straight corners and a suitable lid. Here you immediately begin to engage in creativity - decorating the surface of the box. However, in this case, you are limited to the form that you can find. Usually it is a cube or a parallelepiped.

The second way of working makes it possible to create absolutely any design: standard or unusual in the form of a pyramid, a cone, a heart, a Christmas tree, etc.

However, the work here will be somewhat more complicated. Before you start decorating, you will have to glue the structure yourself. A template can be downloaded and printed out in the required scale.

If you understand what you are doing and have at least a minimal experience of drawing and design skills, it's easy to create a diagram yourself using a pencil and ruler.

Materials and Tools

How to make boxes for gifts - choose yourself. In any of these ways, the set of accessories for operation is approximately the same. So, you need the following:

• Cardboard, thick paper or finished box;
• Ruler;
• pencil;
• Scissors or clerical knife;
• Adhesive or thermal gun;
• Packaging, decorative, design, corrugated paper for decorating or pasting workpiece;
• the cloth;
• Satin or paper ribbons;
• Decorative scotch tape;
• Any materials for decoration (figured punchers for the manufacture of application elements, for example, hearts or snowflakes, beads, bows, stickers, etc.).

As you can see, nothing unusual and expensive is required. The main thing is to create or find a ready basis, and you can decorate it in any way, focusing on the means at hand or the theme of the gift (New Year's, anniversary).

How to make a gift box with your own hands from an existing workpiece

If you decided not to complicate your life and prepared a cardboard blank of the desired shape and size, proceed immediately to the decorating process. Work as follows:

• Measure the box and draw on the decorative paper or fabric a detail scan scheme, which will glue the substrate.
• Do not forget about the allowances for gluing. They are necessary to ensure that in the joints, for example, on the ribs, as well as on the upper edges of the box, the base material was not visible.
• Cut out the blank from the decorative paper and gently coat the surface.
• Do the same with the lid, if available.
• Glue any suitable decor on top, for example, flowers made of paper, lace, snowflakes, hearts.
• Make an imitation of tying ribbons with decorative tape.
• Decorate the packaging with a spectacular bow.

In a word, let your fancy run wild, but remember: everything is good in moderation. Do not turn the surface of the product into a mottled carpet. It should remain stylish and harmonious.

How to make packaging from scratch

So, you learned how to make a gift box with your own hands from the existing workpiece. The second option is to make a product from a regular sheet of cardboard. Work as follows:

1. Find a suitable template or just a box of any size.
2. Print the outline in the scale you need, or, respectively, paste the prepared box to use the sweep as a sample.
3. Draw a pattern on the cardboard sheet or draw out the outline of the printed image.
4. Cut out the received part (or two, if the box has a separate cover).
5. Swipe along the future fold lines with a non-writing ballpoint pen or knitting needle. This will later allow you to carefully bend the dense cardboard without any debris and damage. It is better to draw lines on the wrong side.
6. Bend the box around the markings.
7. Pour over the allowances.
8. Get down to the design.

Now you know how to make gift boxes from a regular sheet. In fact, you can work in different sequences: according to the plan described above, or decorate the product before gluing while it is still spread out on the plane. Choose the method that suits you best. Try both.

Ideas of unusual decor

If you have already decided how to make a gift box, but have not chosen the option of decorating, you can use one more interesting technique - decoupage. It is also called a tissue napkin, since napkins with thematic images, for example New Year's or Romantic ones, are glued to the prepared surface. From above all is varnished. The instruction, although presented in a very abbreviated form, but in fact the whole process is quite simple. And most importantly, in this way, you can get gift boxes, which themselves will resemble a souvenir - a casket or an old trunk.

So, you learned how to make gift boxes with your own hands from the existing packaging or completely from scratch. Choose your favorite ways of creating a design and decorating ideas. Perform the original "clothes" for presents to any holiday.