Create Fancy Box Project

After finished your fancy box inspiration and prepared the craft material need, now let’s create your dream box being come true. Here the following homemade steps project:

1. Cruise for Cardboard
Peruse your trash can or recycling bin, any good-looking piece of cardboard will do. Cereal and toy boxes are excellent choice, as are packages from medical and feminine hygiene products. Just make sure it will be large enough box to hold your gift.

2. Open and Trace
Use your X-Acto to open up all box seams and lay the package facedown. Cut in half. These 2 pieces will be your top and bottom. Place your dream box in the center and trace. For those who like a challenge, lay your inspirational craft material onto the cardboard and trace an even rectangle around it. Use a ruler to draw the lines. Make each side and equal length.

3. Measure the box sides
Phranc use the width of a yardstick as her magical measuring guide for depth of the box. For a shallow box, increase to 2 or 3 widths to achieve the desired box depth. Placing the yardstick against your traced rectangle, use a pencil to outline the sides of the box.

4. Cut and Score
Using the metal ruler and X-Acto, cut along the outside lines. Draw an X in the 4 squares at the corners of this shape. Cut along these corner lines and remove the little squares marked with the X.

Very lightly score along the inner 4 lines, folding and creasing each side toward the center to begin to form your box.

5. Tape the box corners
Cut a piece packing tape the same width as the sides of the box. Pinch together each of the 4 box corners, using small pieces of tape secure them. For a fancier box, use clear cellophane tape but for an everyday box, brown packing tape is the best.

6. Make the box top
Using the bottom of your box as a guide, turn it upside down and trace. Make sure you out-line the box loosely; this will give your top a snug but comfortable fit.

Repeat the step 2 through 5, except make the sides of the box top a little shorter to show off the bottom of the box. Your nifty box is complete.

7. Get Fancy
For an added touch of glamour, cut out a rectangle from the top and fill from the inside with clear acetate. Feel free to enhance your box with point, a gold cord, or colorful ribbon.

8. Make some storage
To make large, industrial sized boxes, follow the same basic procedure using large pieces of recycled cardboard.

In the land of the Cardboard Cobbler, your boxes and curtains, gifts and shoes, album and books are all made to order from the same material that made your childhood forts, robots, caves, and dolls’ accessories cardboard.