Designer box for a gift with their own hands

Contents:

• Material selection
• Templates
• History of Chinese boxes

Every gift, whether it's a birthday, anniversary, wedding, or some unusual event, spectacular likely be present in a festive package. This lends a certain charm and solemnity present. Especially if it's not a big gift set, and a miniature statue, for example, or a graceful ballerina jewelry for the little princess.

Of course, in the stores we can see a variety of all kinds of packaging: baskets, boxes, bags, pouches, etc.. And yet for every taste and color! A valuable gifts of the metals can not be imagined without the originally designed case. But, often buying a holiday package costs us almost as much as the gift itself, but it happens that even more!

Today, therefore, we suggest you learn how to make their own hands the original paper boxes, which are (you'll see!) Will be a completely superfluous and will serve as a decorative bonus to any gift.

Particularly unique will look in the box handmade creative gifts, and made with his own hands: Baubles Bead, homemade soap, painted candles, and the like. When you nabete hand in making a simple boxes made of paper, you can safely proceed to the more fancy specimens from expensive materials. And then, do not restrain your creativity to design packages using fabric appliqué, dry paint, decoupage, painting and many other things that you can do with your hands.

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Material selection

Separately want to dwell on the choice of paper. How long have you been in stationery stores? So, pay attention to how many different kinds of cardboard offered for your choice. Besides classical colored paper or cardboard, fluorescent surprise you, embossed, glossy, velvet, theme, coated with an artistic ornament and many other kinds of materials for creativity.

Tip for those who are just beginning to engage in creative crafts. In almost every city there are art shops offering a variety of materials for handicrafts produced by hand. What did you find there any paints for stained glass, krakelyurnye compositions, photo frames, canvases, professional brushes, pencils, crayons. Many different themed templates, stickers and more. By visiting this store, you can make your own hands all kinds of gifts, crafts and decorative things.

As decoration boxes can also be used all kinds of accessories: beautiful buttons, rhinestones, ribbon, swan's down, cut flowers, hearts, colored stickers, etc. So in order to make a nice package with your hands, you need to look in the drawer of your child, to dig into their own casket, and you are sure to find "designer" trinkets.
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Templates

In fact, to make their own hands a box of paper - small trick. To do this, you only need to learn how to draw patterns. And then, to show imagination, you can arbitrarily change the configuration of the package. FYI add that the box can be made of four sides: multi-faceted, conical, pyramidal, curly, flat, cascaded with a separate lid and without it, and so on - who at that much.

Below we sketch the simplest box with a lid. Note the size of the faces you can control yourself, respecting the aspect ratio.

By the way, we recommend this template to cut out of construction paper and used in the future instead of the pattern. You can also draw a flowchart directly to the finished material, but we still recommend to start to try to make a box of ordinary writing paper.

So, take the cardboard and draw on it a rectangle or square (depending on the shape and size of the gift). Next to each side of the figure pririsuyte rectangles width corresponding to the desired height of the box (this will be the edge). Then, on two opposite side faces of the part of the width you need to finish more boxes that will serve as a docking sides of the box. The edges of these "wings" should be cut at an angle of 45 °. Well that's all, it is to bend the cardboard in places fold and glue the edges.

Similarly cover manufacture of thick paper or cardboard. However, we must bear in mind that the cover should be slightly wider than the box itself, so the base draw of two to three millimeters more. A cover faces can be of any width. This is up to you how far will dress the lid on the box.

Demonstrating diligence and include fantasy, you will succeed, and you have a beautiful holiday box of paper, made by the hands.

Using the base of the box and squared for him to finish the triangular faces, you get a box without a lid in the shape of a pyramid. At the top of the package is necessary to make a small round hole and threading a ribbon through them, to consolidate its beautiful knot. Just remember: a gift to put in a pyramid before bonding sides.

Worth another diagram template for boxes of paper, which can also be done by hand. Note, in this embodiment, the lid of the box is inseparable and is provided directly to the pattern. A figure in the form of hearts you can always be replaced by something else, such as a petal and leaf. Cut out the template and you will make folds along the lines, glue the edges and bottom of the box.

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History of Chinese boxes

We want to tell you an interesting fact of life for Chinese food boxes. I'm sure many of you have already met with the original packaging. And not for nothing that box has won virtually the entire world. Firstly, the paper is environmentally friendly natural material. Second, the food at the Chinese box remains hot for a long time. Third, there is a package of convenient at home or in the park on a bench or on the lawn in the company. Fourth, if you wish, you can leave uneaten food on then carefully closed the box.

However, the birthplace of the universal boxes of paper was not China, and America. In the early twentieth century in the port cities such packages sold cleaned- oysters. It was a breakthrough when the finished product take-out. However, over time the oysters become expensive delicacy, and for manufacturers of boxes came to the crisis, if they did not pay attention to the ever-growing among the large number of migrants from Asia, the demand for Chinese food. Thus, due to the low cost and unusual flavors, Chinese food has gained a leading position among fast-food chain. A box was its integral attribute and really practical packaging.

You too can make a box. Like many others, you can do with your hands. First you need to do one test box, the second will make you dream, and the third has most fully reveal your creative potential. Be sure to entrust the children to be creative, they think much more widely adults and invent incredible names to crafts. Zagotovte package for the future, and you will always have to take a visit. We are sure you will be able to impress not only others but also themselves original decor of its products.