How to make a box with a lid out of the box: master-class step by step

Need to pack a gift? Or do you want to create a storage box for storing small items so that they do not collect dust on the shelf? Do not know how to make a box with a lid out of the box ? In fact, this is not difficult. It is enough only to understand the principle of obtaining a three-dimensional form or to use a ready-made scheme. The manufacturing process will not be difficult. There are interesting ways to decorate boxes that will help create you a real work of art, and find an application to him already definitely will not be difficult.

What is required?

If you have wondered about how to make a box with a lid out of the box, then the most important thing you already have is a cardboard box.

It will act as the basis. In addition to it, you need to prepare the following:

• pencil;
• Ruler;
• eraser;
• Stationery knife or scissors (the second option is less convenient);
• A spoke, a toothpick or a non-writing rod (for making guides along which the cardboard will be bent);
• glue;
• Decor (designer paper, fabric, stickers, satin ribbons, beads, flowers, feathers, butterflies, lace).

As you can see, by means of available means it is easy to turn an ordinary box into a gift wrapping or decorating an interior.

A sheet of cardboard or a box: what is better to do?

If you previously decided to make a beautiful package for a gift yourself, you have the opportunity to choose the source material, evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of options. When there is no time for preparatory work, use what is available. Having studied the article, you will understand how to make a box with a lid out of the box, but it is worthwhile to warn that it will be easier to make a product from a flat sheet of cardboard.

If you have a finished box, but it is without a cover, inappropriate shape or larger than you need, you will have to dismantle it to a flat sheet and already draw the workpiece on it. The problem is that on this sheet you will already have folds, and you will have to adjust the template so that the expected fold lines coincide with those already available.

The advantage of this option is that it is cheap. Find a cardboard box easily. You can ask at any store. They always have an unnecessary packaging.

If you have time to search for decorative cardboard and there is no task to save, then boldly get a sheet (better dense) color, metallized, with a print (printed pattern) material. From a single flat sheet you can make a box for any pattern of completely different shapes. In addition, you do not have to spend time on gluing the front side to give an aesthetically attractive look to industrial gray-brown cardboard. In any case, the choice is yours.

How to make a box with a cover yourself?

The shapes of the boxes are very different: cylindrical, based on a square (rectangle, five- or hexagon), in the form of a pyramid, heart, house and other objects. If your main task is to make a product with a lid, choose the template in which this part is present. It can be a separate part, which is removed, or a single whole, that is, it reclines. To do the first option, work like this:

1. Find a template of a suitable shape, for example rectangular, and only the base will be sufficient, since the lid is easy to make on its base.
2. Print the desired workpiece of the desired size. Prepare the foundation.
3. Cut out the sweep and circle it on the prepared cardboard. See that the assumed bends coincide with those already available on the workpiece.
4. Cut out the workpiece.
5. Where there are no folds, but they need to be carried out, draw the guides or the toothpick. On them it will be much easier to bend tight cardboard.
6. Fold and glue together.
   
   
   
7. If the scan involves executing the cover separately, then to get it, it is enough to take the same circuit, but it will have to be printed a little larger, since the cover must be put on the manufactured base. The minimum pattern should be increased by double the thickness of the material, that is, literally by a few percent. And you only need to increase the size corresponding to the upper plane, which in the first element was the bottom. The side details in height can be any size (half, one third of the value). The sequence of work will be similar.

How to make a box with a hinged lid?

If you want to make a gift wrap in less time, choose those templates where the lid is one with the base. At the same time, the sequence of work will correspond to that presented in the previous section and will be limited to the stages from No. 1 to No. 6.

How to make a box of individual parts?

If you do not know how to make a box with a cover from an existing workpiece, because none of the found blanks are suitable in size, since the folds do not match the ones on the original box, use the following method:

1. Select any sweep and print in the correct size on a sheet of paper.
2. Cut the template into separate elements (bottom, cover, side faces).
3. Lay out the details on your disassembled box so that the existing folds do not interfere (did not fall on the elements).
4. Circle the pencil of the part.
5. Cut out everything.
6. Make holes around the perimeter of each part with a needle or an awl (depending on the thickness of the material).
7. Sew a needle and thread joints of elements (the number of holes along the edge connecting the two faces, should be the same).

In this case, you do not even need glue. The same can be done with the help of an adhesive tape, but then you have to decorate both the front and back sides.

How to decorate a box?

Now you, most likely, have already decided and understood how to make a cardboard box with a cover of what you have. But if you only have gray-brown packaging from products or other goods, you should think about decorating. You can decorate the product as already done, and at the stage of the cutting of details. Decoration options can be selected from the following list:

• Cover with a cloth, beautiful paper, lace;
• Paint, write text, make a pattern, for example acrylic paints with a primer primer or markers;

• Use the decoupage technique (suitable for thick cardboard);
• Wrap in spectacular wrapping (thin) paper;
• Decorate with applique, satin ribbons, beads, flowers made of paper or fabric.

These are just a few basic options. On their basis you can create your own unique masterpieces.

So, you learned how to make a box with a lid out of the box. It is not difficult. Choose simple schemes if you have little time. And when it's enough, you can use any proposed option or even develop your own based on the sample you like.