Wrap your gifts in style with a hand-painted and handmade gift box
It’s close to the big day now and so if like me you're still wrapping presents, you may be contemplating a last-minute dash out to the shops and thinking that all of the good gift boxes have probably now sold out. Never fear, if you have a Cricut you can skip the Christmas queues and use some cardstock to make your own. I painted mine with watercolour paints before assembling and finished them off with some green ribbon and a bow, but the beauty of these is that you can decorate them however you want. I found the box template online and free to use from Mel Stampz (who has lots of other free to use templates) and then turned it into a SVG file on Cricut Design Space. You can find the SVG file I created from Mel’s template free to use below. I hope you like this project and hope you have a very Merry Christmas! Let me know what you think below and don’t forget to like and share this with your friends on social media.
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First of all, upload the box template file to Cricut Design Space. Be sure to ensure it is your desired size, it is made to create a 3 x 3 inch box.
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Next, add your cardstock to your cutting mat and ensure you have the fine point knife loaded. Then load your mat and press cut.
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Once your machine has finished cutting, carefully peel the card off the mat and remove the excess cardstock from around the cut lines.
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Next, score across wherever there are indents on the template so that it is easier to fold. Do this on the side that will be the inside of the box.
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Next, decorate what will be the outside of the box. I painted a simple leaf pattern all over.
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Next, I went over this with a gold paint outline to give it some shimmer.
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I then left this to thoroughly dry.
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I then bent all of the scored lines and practised how it would be assembled.
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Once I knew how it was going to be assembled, I used glue on the tabs and stuck it together.
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I then added my gift and finished it off with satin ribbon and a big bow on top.
