Showing posts with label gift box ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gift box ideas. Show all posts

Monday 21 December 2020

sturdy round gift box


These gift boxes are surprisingly easy to make.  I got the idea and instructions from Youtube. Unfortunately I cannot remember the ladies name  or what she called these balls.
However I can remember the measurements she gave made the smaller red ball. I was a little disappointed that I couldn't get very much  in the gift box when finished. So I scaled it up a bit for the green ball. Again I felt this was still too small. I could probably get a  tightly rolled up pair of  men's socks  in  the green ball and  a small piece of jewellery in the red one. So I scaled it up again to make the blue one. Now this size would probably be a good size to fill with  individually wrapped  sweets or chocolates.
But I wanted it bigger still. So I scaled it up again. This time each face measured 2 inches square.  
 This gave me a much bigger ball, in which I could fit 5 or 6 bags of sweets and several lollipops. 
This large size uses a 12x12  sheet of card. 300gsm makes for a nice sturdy box.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to get a photograph the large one before giving it away.


 

Monday 26 July 2010

Gift box ideas

Yes I know ........ You're thinking I have gone mad. but this is a post for my lovely up and coming crafters. Some months ago now, I spent ages trawling the internet looking for a template for a box to fit a gift I had purchased.
I couldn't find one that was just right and I really wasn't in the mood to sit and design one.
So I started searching through my kitchen cupboards and found a range of boxes that could be used as templates for gift boxes.
Anyway, I did find the box that was absolutely perfect.... It contained Stan's bottle of liquid pain killer, prescribed by the vet after Stan had an encounter with a vicious squirrel . Well Stan didn't need the box .... but I did........ it is now the template I use for boxes for small bottles of bubble bath.
Another box or should I say tube, I have used for a gift box is the Pringles tube.......the Stampin round wheels fit in them perfectly. I had bought several for my sister for her birthday. The tube looked great once I had washed it out, decorated it and added a cord handle.
Small bottles of wine will fit into them too.