Beautiful Christmas box with your own hands

Long before the winter holidays, manyprepare gifts for their loved ones and friends. Now souvenirs are becoming more popular in the style of hand-made. If you are not sure that you will cope with some complicated product, an effective new-year box made by yourself can become an alternative. And already in it you put the purchased product. As they say, packing is half a gift. The first impression depends on it. Make a beautiful box is easy both on the basis of the existing workpiece, and completely from scratch.

New Year's boxes with their own hands: ideas and options

Cardboard packaging can be used both forsweet gifts, and for any souvenirs. A beautiful box will look great in a festive interior as a storage container or simply a decor. Thus, it can be given a different functional purpose, and accordingly, and the size: from a miniature version in the form of a casket for jewelry or jewelery to a large interior object. As a last option, a standard rectangular design with a thematic decoration is more appropriate.

Packaging a sweet or other small gift can be made in the form of any suitable festive object, for example, this:

Christmas tree toys.
A magic chest.
Christmas trees.
Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Snowman.
Fairy-tale house.

For kids, such options as a typewriter, a locomotive, various animals are also suitable.

Tools and materials

To make a beautiful New Year's box, you need the following:

Cardboard (at once decorative or usual packing).
Beautiful paper, fabric for covering the surface (if the base is not beautiful).
Paints with brushes as an alternative to the tightening with a cloth or paper pasting.
Ruler.
Pencil.
Eraser.
Template, box scheme (optional).
Scissors, knife.
Glue (better thermo gun).
Decorative elements (satin ribbons, floral scotch with pictures, bows, snowflakes, sequins, artificial snow, bulk and flat stickers).

As you can see, nothing is used to make a base, and you choose the variant of decorating, proceeding from your capabilities.

How to make a New Year's box

If you do not have a cardboard blank, but there is, for example, a flat sheet of material, you have to do the packing from scratch, namely, from the drawing of the sweep (schemes for folding).

New Year gift boxes will in this case be performed as follows:

If you do not understand how to design the circuit yourself, find the right template.
Print the workpiece to the desired scale.
Circle the sample along the contour, attaching the workpiece to the cardboard. If you do not have the option to print the template, then just use it for self-build using drawing tools.
Cut out the sweep.
Before assembling a planar circuit into a three-dimensionalconstruction, draw along the folding lines the guides (grooves, grooves) not with a cutting but sharp object (a non-writing rod from the handle, a corner of the ruler, a knitting needle). This will allow you to accurately perform folds on dense cardboard without any bruising.
Fold all the details of the box.
Perform gluing on the allowances.
If your box consists of two parts, a base and a lid, then make the second element using a similar technology.
Now you can start decorating in any way.

If you can immediately printready colored box pattern, do not have to worry about what to decorate the surface. If the received box looks not at all gift, but made of gray cardboard, do not get discouraged. Everyone will be able to turn the usual workpiece into a real masterpiece.

How to decorate (simple ways)

To make New Year's gift boxes,it is not necessary to create them from scratch. You can fully use the existing blanks (packaging from tea, sweets and other products). Decorate the existing packaging and turn it into a real masterpiece in the following ways:

Use the scrapbooking technique and the corresponding elements.
Tighten with fabric, glue lace, braid, ribbons, bows.
Cover with wrapping paper with thematic drawings.
Apply the application from the elements of quilling.
Draw on the surface covered with white ground New Year's pictures and patterns.
Glue snowflakes from paper, made, for example, by shaped punchers.
Add artificial snow.

In fact, there are many options, and opportunities for creativity are great.

Decoupage boxes

A very effective New Year's box can beis made by this method by decorating the cardboard base. The meaning of technology is that a primed surface (acrylic white paint, for example) is glued with special thin paper or ordinary table napkins with thematic patterns.

After drying, the surface is covered with varnish, supplemented with sparkles, artificial frost and other effects.

So, you learned how the New Year's box is made. Choose the right option for working with a ready-made template, a standard base and unusual design or completely create exclusive packaging from scratch.

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