Do you like to make gifts with your own hands? Looking for new ideas for packaging them? Now you will learn how to make a box of cardboard with your own hands. The diagrams shown in the text can be printed and used unchanged. If you like to bring something of your own, modify them as desired.
Which form to choose
You may never have guessed how easily and quickly a cardboard box is made with your own hands. Schemes and blanks are very different, respectively, and the final configuration of the products is very different. It is often said that beautiful packaging is already half the present. If you want to surprise your souvenir, come up with an unusual shape of the box. At the same time, packaging that is not even decorated additionally, but simply made from a colored sheet, will look spectacular.
In the case when you do not want your attention to be distracted by the packaging, but you just need it for safety and ease of transportation, a normal shape in the form of a cube or parallelepiped will be enough. However, it is worth considering that you are preparing for the holiday, so it’s good to add beautiful decor to the usual configuration. Any of the options can be used, and it’s easy to execute the box according to the ready-made template, even if you have never done so.
What is required
You need to prepare the following so that you get a beautiful cardboard box with your own hands:
- Schemes, or, as they are also called, sweeps.
- Cardboard (white, color, decorative).
- A printer or drawing tools if you will build a template yourself.
- Scissors or knife.
- A knitting needle, non-writing pen or similar tool to draw invisible grooves along future fold lines.
- Glue or thermal gun.
- Decorative elements (satin ribbons, stickers, bows, flowers).
As you can see, the work of creating beautiful packaging will not be too much trouble. No complicated fixtures needed. If you don’t have a thermal gun and printer, you can do without them by using the self-construction of a box scan with a pencil and a ruler and gluing it with ordinary PVA or quick fix composition.
Manufacturing technology
Consider how to make a gift box with your own hands out of cardboard. The scheme of work will be as follows:
- Find the template that suits your configuration.
- Print it on the printer, either immediately on a large cardboard format, if possible, or on paper sheets that can then be glued and transferred to a cardboard blank. The most convenient, of course, is to work with boxes whose sweeps fit on the A3 or even A4 format. Usually these are the maximum features of a standard home printer.
- So, here is the packaging template obtained in any way. Cut it from the sheet along the contour and make cuts in the right places where gluing will take place.
- Take a knitting needle or the tool that you prepared, and draw it along all the lines where the bends will go. It is better to do this on the back side, and not on the front. In professional slang this operation is called scoring, and in printing houses it is, of course, performed by the machine. Such grooves prevent creasing of the paperboard during folding, i.e. folding. So do not neglect it, otherwise the box may turn out to be messy and deformed.
- Bend along the appropriate guides.
- Glue the volumetric shape from a flat workpiece.
- Decorate the packaging with satin ribbon ties, a bow, or something else.
DIY cardboard box: schemes
Square packaging is most commonly used. The options are different, both solid and consisting of two parts - the base and the cover. It’s easier to make boxes from one part. Such packaging can be closed with ties or with the help of a cardboard “tongue” that goes into a slot in the opposite part of the box. Below is a simple cube-shaped packaging option.
As you can see, the sweep is based on a square. The top of the product looks like a "roof" in the assembled state. To fasten the four parts of the top, you can use a beautiful ribbon.
Do-it-yourself cardboard box: simple but unusual patterns
If you want to make packaging of an unusual shape, use one of the following models. The first photo shows the simplest option. It is very easy to do, since only four folds need to be completed. At the top, the box is assembled due to the slot and the fastening element included in it.
If you have a triangular shape, use the following packaging. The scan, although it looks quite complicated, assembly is easy and fast. The main thing is to carefully make the fold lines. The gluing elements are small, made in the form of triangles.
According to the following template, a beautiful rounded box of cardboard can be made with your own hands. The layout is also simple and straightforward. The most important thing is to draw straight arcuate fold lines. Depends on how carefully the shape of the package.
How to decorate the box
You have figured out the technology for creating the foundation, but just a white package will not work for a gift. It should complement and decorate your souvenir. You can turn an ordinary box into a masterpiece of art mastery in the following ways:
- Choose a beautiful cardboard or thick paper (design or for children's creativity). Sheets are metallized, mother-of-pearl with embossing, patterns and other decor options.
- Cut the second scan of the box from thin packaging paper or other paper used in the applied arts, and stick on top of the base. This option is suitable when you need to make a box of very thick cardboard, which is not possible to find with a decorative surface.
- Put drawings or patterns with paints on the box with a brush, stencils, using stickers, decoupage napkins.
- If you own computer graphic editors at a high level, you can come up with your own box design by adding any image to the selected outline before printing, including photorealistic ones, for example, even with the birthday person. The person to whom you present such a gift will be definitely surprised. It should be borne in mind that if you are going to print on color cardboard, all of your pictures will get the appropriate shade, so you will either have to colorize the workpiece or not use colors whose change is unacceptable (portrait photos).
There are as many options for decorating the product as possible scan patterns. It’s good to combine different ideas.
So, you saw how easy it is to make a box of cardboard with your own hands. The schemes given above are easy to use to create beautiful packaging for a souvenir for any holiday. By scaling templates, you can make boxes of different sizes that are identical in shape. Create, decorate, amaze your friends and relatives with your skill.