Is your gift-wrapping less POP and more predicable? Amp it up with creative gift wrap, like DIY paper boxes. They’re the cutest way to give treats, small gifts like jewelry or handknit socks, candles and more.
Christmas Gift Boxes
Level: Easy
What You Need
Good to Know: We prefer to make our own boxes so we can have a flat surface to stamp onto, and we can make boxes in various sizes. Craft stores carry pre-made flat boxes as well, but may not offer many smaller options to chose from. Plus, if you make your own box you have more design options, from using the paper, colors, pattern and size of your choice. You also don’t have to worry about buying a box every time you need to give a gift.
Instructions
1. If making your own box, cut it to the size you want from the guide. Crease your box and notch it. (If you’re using a pre-made gift box, skip this step.)
2. Using your pattern stamps to decorate your gift box as you please — you could also wet emboss your box or add glitter.
3. Assemble your box and glue together. Set aside.
4. Die-cut the bow and stamp the cut pieces. Once stamped, put your bow together.
5. Punch a 1½” circle with a circle punch or circle die. Add it to the top of the box with a few dabs of glue. Glue the bow onto the circle, and you’re done!
All very good if you have the die cutter. Useless without that, which can be an incredibly expensive piece of equipment. I was hoping from scratch for the complete novice
darling gift box idea.
The title of this page is “How to Make Christmas Gift Boxes For the Prettiest Packaging” so, interested in info on making my own boxes, I took a look. All you had to offer was a way to decorate a premade box. The titles of your courses should not be so misleading. Very disappointed in most of your emails recently. Way too much pushing towards 3rd party products. Even with a discounted membership it’s hardly worth looking at the majority of your newsletters.
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I agree about the intrusive emails about third party products. Not only is it annoying, but I do not live in America and it is all redundant as far as I am concerned. Not the way this site started originally.
Useless. Does not actually tell you how to make a box. What was the point? I’m so sick of stuff like this from Craftsy. I’m unsubscribing from the emails and not renewing my membership when it expires.
terrible- just an advert
So, how do you make the box? That’s what you said this would tell us, but it doesn’t. Maybe I shouldn’t bother to look ok at these anymore.
This sounds more like an ad to encourage me to purchase gifts for myself rather than clear directions to complete a cute project! Not impressed at all!
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I thought this would provide a template to use for cutting out the paper/cardboard to craft a gift box. Without purchasing the special tool, this is pretty much worthless. I think most of us can decorate a pre-made box (or a box made using a pre-purchased special tool) without instructions. Even a child can do that!! I expect better from Craftsy. Very disappointed!!
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I thought this was supposed to be instructions for making christmas packaging. Not a recommendation to go to the store and buy something
What are they talking about? I didn’t understand a single thing.
So I am a fan of personalized gifts and this idea is a good one–especially if it would have suggestions on how to use the abundance of boxes many of us have due to increased deliveries in the pandemic. But the instructions above are not even instructions for goodness sake. C’mon Craftsy
these are terrible instructions
This was not at all helpful very disappointed
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