Gift box from cardboard with your own hands: simple schemes

Do you like to make gifts yourself? Looking for new ideas for their packaging? Now you will learn how to carry a box of cardboard with your own hands. The diagrams given in the text can be printed and used in an unchanged form. If you like to bring something of your own, modify them at will.

Which form to choose

Perhaps you have never guessed how easy and quick the box of cardboard is made with your own hands. Schemes and blanks are very different, respectively, and the final configuration of products is very different. It is often said that a beautiful package is already half the gift. If you want to surprise with your souvenir, come up with an unusual box shape. In this case, not even decorated in addition, but simply made from a colored sheet of packaging will look spectacular.

In the event that you do not want attention to be distracted by the packaging, but it is just needed for safety and convenience of transportation, it will be enough to have a conventional shape in the form of a cube or a parallelepiped. However, it is worth considering that you are preparing for the holiday, so it's good to add to the usual configuration a beautiful decor. Any of the options can be used, and it is not difficult to execute the box according to the prepared template, even if you have never done it.

What will be required

You need to prepare the following, so that you get a beautiful box of cardboard with your own hands:

• Schemes, or, as they are called, sweeps.
• Cardboard (white, color, decorative).
• Printer or drawing tools, if you build the template yourself.
• Scissors or knife.
• A spoke, a non-writing pen or a similar tool to draw invisible grooves along future fold lines.
• Glue or thermo gun.
• Decorative elements (satin ribbons, stickers, bows, flowers).

As you can see, the work on creating a beautiful package will not cause any special trouble. Complex adaptations are not necessary. If you do not have a thermo-gun and a printer, you can do without them, using a self-developed scan of the box with a pencil and ruler and gluing with a conventional PVA or a fast-fixing compound.

Manufacturing technology

Consider how a gift box is made with its own hands made of cardboard. The scheme of work will be as follows:

1. Find the template that suits you best.
2. Print it on the printer either immediately on a large cardboard format, if possible, or on paper sheets, which you can then glue together and transfer the template to the blank of the cardboard. It is most convenient, of course, to work with boxes, the sweeps of which fit on the A3 or even A4 format. Typically, this is the maximum capacity of a standard home printer.
3. So, before you is received in any way a package template. Cut it out of the sheet on the contour and cut it in the right places, where the gluing will take place.
4. Take the spoke or the tool that you prepared, and draw them along all the lines where the folds will pass. Do it better on the reverse side, not on the front. In professional slang, this operation is called scoring, and in print shops, of course, it is performed by a machine. Such grooves prevent crumpling of the cardboard during folding, that is, bending. So do not neglect it, otherwise the box may turn out to be sloppy and deformed.
5. Make bends along the appropriate guides.
6. Glue the volumetric form from a flat workpiece.
7. Decorate the packaging with a tie in the form of satin ribbons, a bow or something else.

Box of cardboard with their own hands: schemes

Square packing is most often used. Variants can be different, as one-piece, or consisting of two parts - the base and the lid. It's easier to make boxes from one part. Close such a package can be on the strings or with the help of a cardboard "tongue" that goes into the slot in the opposite part of the box. Below is a simple version of the packaging in the form of a cube.

As you can see, the sweep is based on a square. The top of the product looks like a "roof" in the assembled state. To fasten the four details of the top you can use a beautiful ribbon.

Box of cardboard with their own hands: the schemes are simple, but unusual

If you want to make an unusual packaging, use one of the following models. The first photo shows the simplest version. It's very easy to do, since you only need to perform four folds. At the top of the box is collected due to the slot and the fastening element that comes into it.

If you have a triangular souvenir shape, use the following packing. The sweep, although it looks rather complicated, the assembly is easy and fast. The main thing is to carefully make the fold lines. Elements of gluing are small, made in the form of triangles.

According to the following pattern, a beautiful round box of cardboard can be made by oneself. The scheme is also simple and understandable. The most important thing is to exactly draw arcuate lines of folds. It depends on how accurately the form of the package will be formed.

How to decorate a box

You figured out the technology of creating the basics, but for the gift is not suitable just white packaging. It should complement and decorate your souvenir. You can turn a regular box into a masterpiece of artistic skill in the following ways:

• Choose a beautiful cardboard or thick paper (designer or for children's creativity). Sheets are metallized, pearly with embossing, patterns and other decor options.
• Cut the second sweep of a box of thin packing or other paper used in applied art, and glue on top of the base. This option is suitable when you need to make a box of very dense cardboard, which can not be found with a decorative surface.
• To put on a box drawings or patterns by paints with the help of a brush, stencils, using decals, napkins for decoupage.
• If you own computer graphics editors at a high level, you can come up with your own design of the box, adding to the selected path before printing any images, including photorealistic, for example, even with the birthday boy. The person to whom you will hand this gift will be exactly surprised. It should be taken into account only that if you are going to print on color cardboard, all your images will acquire the appropriate shade, so you will either have to perform color correction of the workpiece, or not use colors that are unacceptable (portrait photos).

There are as many options for decorating the product as possible scanners. It is good to combine different ideas.

So, you saw how a box of cardboard is simply made with your own hands. The diagrams given above are easy to use to create a beautiful package for a souvenir for any holiday. Scaling templates, you can do the same in the form of boxes of different sizes. Create, decorate, surprise your skill friends and relatives.