Beautiful Christmas box with your own hands

Long before the winter holidays, many begin to prepare gifts for their relatives 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, packaging is half of the 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 for sweet gifts, as well as 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, the size: from a miniature version in the form of a casket for jewelry or jewelry to a large interior object. As the last option, the most appropriate is a standard rectangular design with a thematic decoration.

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.
• Herringbone.
• Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Snowman.
• Fairy-tale house.

For kids, such options as a typewriter, a steam 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 wrapping cloth or gluing with paper.
• 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 complicated is used to make the 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 will have to do the packaging from scratch, namely, from drawing a sweep (schemes for folding).

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

1. If you do not understand well how to design the circuit yourself, select the suitable ready template.
2. Print the workpiece to the desired scale.
3. 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.
4. Cut out the scan.
5. Before assembling the planar circuit into a three-dimensional structure, draw the guides (grooves, grooves) along the folding lines with a non-cutting but sharp object (the non-writing rod from the handle, the corner of the ruler, the knitting needle). This will allow you to accurately perform folds on dense cardboard without any bruising.
6. Fold all the details of the box.
7. Perform gluing on the allowances.
8. If your box consists of two parts, the base and the lid, then make the second element using the same technology.
9. Now you can start decorating in any way.

If you have the opportunity to immediately print out the finished color box template, you 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 be 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 be made by this method by decorating the cardboard base. The meaning of the technology is that on a primed surface (with acrylic white paint, for example) stick special thin paper or ordinary table napkins with thematic patterns.

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

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