These gift boxes were created after I watched a video by my up line earlier this week, as it's half term I decided it was time to try it out. These boxes have been around for quite a while. I do remember watching
another brilliant video on making a tall version of these boxes by the talented Sarah Hardy. Sarah is no longer an S.U. demo, but her videos are still available on Youtube. I have to say, I do miss her FB live videos. I 'll see if I can find the video and post a link at the end of this post.
Amanda's small box is cute, and it only uses just over half a sheet of card, (6 x 8 1/4 inches) making it a really economical project. It's ideal for small gifts. Such as cosmetics, hair accessories, small craft products, or small electronic items such as USB memory sticks and those tiny earphones, and of course jewellery. To give you an idea of the finished projects size and capacity, I managed to fit two bottles of nail polish in it.
So I scaled it up a little by adding an inch to the height. This enabled me to fit in a small tube of hand cream along with a bottle of nail polish and the box still closed.
By extending the height a little meant I could fit in slightly taller objects. Miniature bottles of alcohol for example. Two mini Gordons gin bottles will fit in comfortably. But that doesn't mean all miniatures will fit, even in the slightly taller box, as the bottles tend to vary in shape and size which of course means you may have to make the box taller still.
I wanted a box I could fit an assortment of items in, so I scaled the box up again. This time my card measured 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Which gave me a finished box that roughly measures 5 inches wide and 7 inches tall. Now I can fit quite a few more objects in. I had a winter care kit in mind when I was putting together the items for this box. So this gift box contains: hand cream, a pack of tissues, hand sanitizer, Lip salve and if I had had a sachet of instant hot chocolate I would have popped that in too as there was still enough room for it.
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Here is the link to Sarah 's Video. I was going to add the link to Amanda's but I can't find her video on youtube. Maybe she hasn't posted it yet.
