Long before the winter holidays, many begin to prepare gifts for their loved ones and friends. Nowadays, hand-made souvenirs are becoming more and more popular. If you are not sure that you can handle some complicated product, an effective DIY box made by yourself can become an alternative. And already in it you put the purchased product. As the saying goes, packaging is half the present. The first impression depends on her. To make a beautiful box is easy both on the basis of the existing workpiece, and completely from scratch.
DIY Christmas boxes: ideas and options
Cardboard packaging can be used both for sweet gifts and for any souvenirs. A beautiful box will look great in a festive interior as a container for storing things or just decor. Thus, it can be given different functional purpose, and, accordingly, size: from a miniature version in the form of a casket for jewelry or jewelry to a large-sized interior object. As a last option, a standard rectangular design with themed decoration is more appropriate.
A package of a sweet or other small gift can be made in the form of any suitable holiday object, for example, such:
- Christmas tree toys.
- Magic chest.
- Christmas trees.
- Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, snowman.
- Fairytale house.
For children, such options as a machine, a steam locomotive, various animals are also suitable.
Tools and materials
To get a beautiful Christmas box, you need the following:
- Cardboard (immediately decorative or regular packaging).
- Beautiful paper, fabric for covering the surface (if the base is ugly).
- Paints with brushes as an alternative to tight fitting with fabric or paper pasting.
- Ruler.
- Pencil.
- Eraser.
- Template, box diagram (optional).
- Scissors, knife.
- Glue (better thermal gun).
- Decorative elements (satin ribbons, floral scotch with drawings, bows, snowflakes, sparkles, artificial snow, voluminous and flat stickers).
As you can see, nothing complicated is used to make the base, and you choose the decoration option based on your capabilities.
How to make a christmas box
If you do not have a cardboard blank, and there is, for example, a flat sheet of material, you will have to do the packaging from scratch, namely, from the execution of a development drawing (layout for folding).
In this case, New Year gift boxes will be performed as follows:
- If you don’t understand how to construct a circuit yourself, choose the right ready-made template.
- Print the blank to the desired scale.
- Circle the sample by applying the blank to the cardboard. If it is not possible to print a template, then simply use it for self-construction using drawing tools.
- Cut a scan.
- Before assembling a flat diagram into a three-dimensional structure, draw along the bend lines guides (grooves, grooves) with a non-cutting, but sharp object (non-writing rod from the handle, corner of the ruler, knitting needle). This will allow you to accurately fold without bruising on thick cardboard.
- Fold all the details of the box.
- Glue the allowance.
- If your box consists of two parts, the base and the lid, then make the second element using the same technology.
- Now you can start decorating in any way.
If you have the opportunity to immediately print a finished color box template, you don’t have to worry about how to decorate the surface. If the received box does not look like a gift at all, but is made of gray cardboard, do not worry. Everyone will be able to turn an ordinary blank into a real masterpiece.
How to decorate (easy ways)
To make Christmas gift boxes, it is not necessary to create them from scratch. You can make full use of the existing blanks (packaging for tea, sweets and other goods). You can decorate the existing packaging and turn it into a real masterpiece in the following ways:
- Use scrapbooking technique and related elements.
- Cover with a cloth, glue lace, braid, ribbons, bows.
- Tape with wrapping paper with thematic drawings.
- Apply application of quilling elements.
- Draw New Year's pictures and patterns on a white-coated surface.
- Glue paper snowflakes made, for example, with curly holes.
- Add artificial snow.
In fact, there are many options, and the possibilities for creativity are great.
Decoupage boxes
A very spectacular Christmas box can be made by this method by decorating a cardboard base. The meaning of the technology is that special thin paper or ordinary table napkins with themed patterns are glued onto the primed surface (for example, white acrylic paint).
After drying, the surface is varnished, complemented by sparkles, artificial frost and other effects.
So, you have learned how to make a Christmas box. Choose the right option for working with a ready-made template, standard base and unusual design, or completely create an exclusive package from scratch.