Gift wrapping with your own hands: the manufacturing process

We all love to receive gifts. And even more we love to give them, especially to the most native and close people, whose admiration and joy from receiving a presentation are the best compensation for our efforts and expenses. But before presenting a gift, we, of course, always try to wrap it up as beautiful and original as possible. Today there are many items for gift wrapping, but it's much more interesting to think up and make it yourself, having shown all your imagination and investing a part of your soul in the process. In addition, creative and beautiful packaging is not only pleasant emotions, but intrigue: it's always interesting, what's inside?

For example, the simplest gift wrapping with your own hands is an ordinary box, which is very easy to make, but no one else will. For its production, you will need only two square, identical in size sheets of colored thick paper or cardboard: one goes to the box itself, and the second - to the lid. Their size depends on how large a box you need.

The next stage, how to make a gift wrap with your own hands, will be the delineation of sheets. Do not worry, you do not have to draw much: there are only two lines that will divide the sheet into 4 equal parts. If you have a good "eye", then this can not be done, but, suppose that you still laid out. These lines will be a guide, because now you need to bend the first two sides of the sheet to the middle, and then the second. Half the work is done, now you clearly see the boundaries between the bottom of the box and its future walls.

Now try to form a box along the fold lines. There are superfluous corners, but it's easy to cope with them. They only need to gently bend inside and even more accurately glue. So that they do not stick out in the middle of the package, they can be folded and glued to the walls. Now that the pack is almost ready for hand, you can set it aside to dry and start making a lid for it.

The cover is made in the same way, but with a tiny difference: the sides of the sheet are bent not close to each other, but with a slight indentation of 4-5 mm. This is necessary so that the lid is not the same size with the box, otherwise it just will not be able to close it normally. After the packaging is completely ready, it can be pasted from inside or outside (or both,) with beautiful paper and decorate at your discretion with beads, flowers, hearts, ribbons and whatever your heart desires.

Perhaps you want your gift wrapping to contain the compartments inside. For these purposes, you will need another cardboard sheet of the same size that you took on the box. Fold it in half and cut it. If you have cardboard, then one halves will be enough, it will just have to be cut along into two parts. If you use paper, fold each of the pieces along in half and glue them. So the partition will be more dense. But this is not necessary, you can do the same as with cardboard, if the density suits you. For 4 compartments you will need two such strips.

Now each of them fold in half across: so you will find the middle where you need to make incisions. Take the scissors and cut each strip in the center approximately to half. Using these slots, connect the future partitions, insert one into the other. You've got something that looks like a cross. You only need to put it inside the box, gently bending and gluing to its walls ends. Here you have a gift wrapping with your own hands with four compartments.

Of course, the compartments need to be done before you begin to glue the box with beautiful paper, especially if you decided to make it "interior decoration": the paper will perfectly hide the fastening points and other flaws such as smeared glue, etc. Lovely pasted and decorated, your box will look like a small work of art, which, perhaps, will even serve in the future gifted you a lovely casket. So why pay someone for wrapping up your presentation, if gift wrapping with your own hands is the best solution?