For many centuries, paper has traditionally been the material for a variety of crafts. This is especially true for all kinds of boxes that are used as gift wrapping or storing small items.
If you don’t know what to give your mom, grandmother or girlfriend on March 8, then a good DIY handmade souvenir can be a good solution. For example, a box in which they can store jewelry and jewelry. Can't imagine how to make it? Do not worry! We will tell you how to make a box of cardboard or paper with your own hands.
Simple option
If you are not confident in your abilities, then use the instructions on how to make a box out of paper, taking the finished box as a basis.
To begin with, its surface needs to be cleaned of film and labels. Then they put the lid on the box and draw a line along the board with a pencil. The rest is simple:
- cut off excess cardboard along this line;
- put on a cap;
- at its junction with the trimmed side of the box, stick tape or another adhesive tape;
- do the same with the inside;
- when the base of the product is ready, proceed to decorate it.
How to make a casket out of paper: decoration
Today, scrapbooking technique or shabby chic style are very relevant. They are suitable for decoration boxes.
We offer an option with flowers and lace.
For this:
- an oval is cut from a corrugated cardboard;
- stick it on the lid;
- take office paper and wrinkle well;
- stick it on the lid so that the relief of the oval is visible from under it;
- do the same with the walls and bottom of the box from the outside;
- paste the inside of the box with crumpled or musical paper;
- paint is applied to the sponge and pressed in different places on the surface of the box to tint the folds;
- make jewelry from a mixture of gypsum and PVC glue, for example, curly corners;
- stick lace, small flowers from foamiran and other decorative elements.
How to make a box in the form of a chest from paper: what you need
What word comes to mind when they talk about treasure? That's right, "chest"! Therefore, many are interested in the question of how to make a box of paper in the form of an ancient object, where the pirates put the looted treasures.
This will require:
- thick paper;
- unnecessary strong box or packing cardboard;
- long ruler;
- 3 sheets of thick paper;
- 1 simple pencil;
- sharp breadboard knife ;
- 2 sheets of colored paper;
- PVA glue;
- 2 satin ribbons 15 cm long each.
Manufacturing procedure
The paper chest is glued and decorated in the following order:
- the drawing above is printed;
- transferred to a piece of fairly dense cardboard;
- cut out;
- a detail for the cover is drawn in the form of a semicircle with a radius of 12.4 cm;
- a line is drawn at a distance of 2 cm from the center;
- two such parts are cut out;
- the box is glued according to the first drawing;
- allowances along the edge of the lid into shallow fringes are cut with scissors and semicircular details are glued;
- all the walls from the inside are duplicated with cardboard to strengthen the chest;
- strips are glued, starting from the place of attachment of the box cover to the wall;
- ornaments are cut out, for example, fasteners, keyhole , etc.
Option Ten-Sided Yin-Yang Globe
If you like to fold paper figures, then try to make an original souvenir using the origami technique. The box, the scheme of which is presented below, looks unusual and will delight the person to whom you present it.
To make it you need:
- print 2 sheets of A4 printer paper with patterns, as in the photo, in two different colors, for example, white and purple;
- cut out;
- bend the rounded ends of all parts;
- attach details, alternating colors so that their center coincides.
If everything is done correctly, then you should get a figure resembling a spiral sign of eternity with outgoing rays.
Then from the paper you need to cut a circle of small diameter and stick on the wrong side.
Turn over and start collecting the rounded ends into a new spiral, just like the first time.
When all the parts are woven, sticking a circle is not required, since if the paper is thick enough, the box will not open by itself.
Old Style Option
If you are thinking about how to make a jewelry box for cardboard jewelry to make it look solid and presentable, we suggest paying attention to the product with three drawers.
To decorate it, artificial ribbons, beads for pearls and flowers will be required.
First of all, you need to glue three square boxes from a thick cardboard, the depth of which is equal to a third of the length of one side.
Next you need:
- cut out figures (see photo) from cardboard;
- glue “corners” from them;
- in the first two boxes are glued so that between them there is space for the third;
- in the second precisely in the center insert the third box with two sides smeared with glue;
- decorate.
Alternatively, you can offer to glue the box with a cloth or artificially aged newspaper or music paper. To do this, the sheets need to be put in strong tea for several minutes (of course, without sugar) and dried in the sun.
Then connect the two parts of the casket, tucking the extreme fragment of the corner glued from the left part (see photo above), inside the other.
I decorate the top of the product with artificial flowers, beads, ribbons and lace.
Now you know how to make a casket out of paper, and in several ways, and you can make such an ornament for your dressing table or as a gift to loved ones.