Need to pack a gift? Or do you want to create a container for storing small things so that they do not gather dust on a shelf? Not sure how to make a box with a lid out of a box ? In fact, it is not difficult. It is enough to understand the principle of obtaining a three-dimensional form or use a ready-made scheme. The manufacturing process is not difficult. There are interesting ways to decorate the boxes that will help you create a real work of art, and it will certainly not be difficult to find a use for it.
What is required?
If you wondered how to make a box with a lid out of a box, then the most important thing you already have is a cardboard container.
She will act as the basis. In addition to her, you need to prepare the following:
- pencil;
- a ruler;
- eraser;
- stationery knife or scissors (the second option is less convenient);
- a needle, a toothpick or a non-writing rod (for making guides along which cardboard will be bent);
- glue;
- decor (designer paper, fabric, stickers, satin ribbons, beads, flowers, feathers, butterflies, lace).
As you can see, it’s easy to turn an ordinary box into a gift box or interior decoration using affordable means.
Cardboard sheet or box: what is better to make?
If you have decided in advance to make a beautiful packaging for your gift yourself, you have the opportunity to choose the source material, evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of the options. When there is no time for preparatory work, use what is available. After studying the article, you will understand how to make a box with a lid out of the box, but it is worthwhile to warn that it will be easier to make the product out of a flat sheet of cardboard.
If you have a finished box, but it is without a lid, of an inappropriate shape or larger than necessary, you will have to disassemble it to a flat sheet and already draw the blank on it. The problem is that on this sheet you will already have bends, and you will have to adjust the template so that the expected bend lines coincide with the existing ones.
The advantage of this option is that it is cheap. Finding a cardboard box is easy. You can ask at any store. They always have unnecessary packaging.
If you have time to search for decorative cardboard and there is no problem to save, then feel free to purchase sheet (preferably dense) color, metallized, with a print (printed pattern) material. From a single even sheet you can make a box according to any template of a completely different shape. In addition, you do not have to spend time gluing the front side to give an aesthetically attractive look to industrial gray-brown cardboard. In any case, the choice is yours.
How to make a box with a lid with your own hands?
The shapes of the boxes are very different: cylindrical, on the basis of a square (rectangle, pentagon or hexagon), in the form of a pyramid, heart, house and other objects. If your main task is to make a product with a cover, choose the template in which this part is present. It can be a separate part, which is removed, or a single whole, that is, reclines. To make the first option, work like this:
- Find a template of a suitable shape, for example a rectangular one, and only a base blank will be enough, since the cover is easy to make on its basis.
- Print your favorite blank of the desired size. Prepare the foundation.
- Cut a scan and circle it on the prepared cardboard. See that the proposed folds match those already on the workpiece.
- Cut the workpiece.
- Where there are no bends, but they will need to be completed, draw guides with a knitting needle or a toothpick. It will be much easier to bend thick cardboard over them.
- Fold and glue.
- If the scan involves the execution of the lid separately as well, then in order to get it, it is enough to take the same scheme, but it will have to be printed out somewhat enlarged, since the lid must be worn on the fabricated base. As a minimum, the template needs to be increased by double the thickness of the material, that is, literally by a few percent. Moreover, you need to increase only the size corresponding to the upper plane, which in the first element was the bottom. The lateral parts in height can be of any size (half, one third of the size). The sequence of work will be similar.
How to make a box with a hinged lid?
If you want to make gift wrapping in less time, choose those templates where the lid is one with the base. In this case, the sequence of work will correspond to that presented in the previous section and will be limited to stages No. 1 through No. 6.
How to make a box of individual parts?
If you do not know how to make a box with a lid from an existing blank, because none of the blanks found are suitable in size, since the folds do not match the ones on the original box, use the following method:
- Choose any scan and print in the right size on a piece of paper.
- Cut the template into separate elements (bottom, cover, side edges).
- Lay out the parts on your disassembled box so that the existing bends do not interfere (do not fall on the elements).
- Circle the parts with a pencil.
- Cut it all out.
- Make holes around the perimeter of each part with a needle or an awl (depending on the thickness of the material).
- Sew the joints of the elements with a needle and thread (the number of holes along the edge connecting the two faces should be the same).
In this case, you do not even need glue. The same can be done with adhesive tape, but then you have to decorate both the front and back sides.
How to decorate a box?
Now you, most likely, have already decided and understood how to make a cardboard box with a lid from what you have. But if you only have a gray-brown package from products or other goods, you should think about decorating. You can decorate the product as already completed, and at the stage of cutting parts. You can choose decoration options from the following list:
- to glue the base with fabric, beautiful paper, lace;
- paint, write a text, make a pattern, for example, with acrylic paints with a preliminary primer or markers;
- use decoupage technique (suitable for thick cardboard);
- wrap in a spectacular packaging (thin) paper;
- decorate with applique, satin ribbons, beads, flowers made of paper or fabric.
These are just a few basic options. Based on them, you can create your own unique masterpieces.
So, you have learned how to make a box with a lid out of a box. This is not difficult. Choose simple schemes if you have little time. And when it is enough, you can use any proposed option or even develop your own based on the sample you like.