For the packing of gifts there are special shops and departments, where the professionals of their business beautifully decorate any present. But the faceless wrapper does not express the whole range of feelings that the giver would like to convey, besides, very often it is simply thrown away and not stored as a memory. Instead of the standard packaging, we suggest creating an unusual, original, transmitting warm attitude. Next, we will tell you how to make a heart-shaped box suitable for a Valentine's Day gift, March 8, birthday or any holiday date.
Variants of creation of a box-heart
Perhaps, someone will seem that this kind of packaging is very difficult to create by oneself, but it is not. Anyone without preliminary preparation will be able to produce a "heart" using paper, cardboard, glue and decorative elements. In connection with the fact that a novice needlework worker does not immediately master the cutting of wood, the smelting of metals, we will not consider these materials as initial materials. The simplest and quickest box in the form of a heart is made of paper: it can be an origami technique, cutting out a template and assembling, calculating the necessary sizes yourself, creating patterns and gluing elements together. You can decorate and decorate ready-made packages with ribbons, embroidery, knitted patterns, add colorful inscriptions.
How to make a cardboard box
Here's what you need to create a colorful, unique package:
- White paper (suitable office);
- Dense cardboard (box parts);
- pencil;
- Ruler;
- scissors;
- compass;
- A sheet of heavy paper (cardstock);
- Sheet of paper with a pattern (you can take the packaging);
- glue;
- Decorative elements;
- Distressing inks are used to impart vintage.
Stages of packaging in the form of a heart
Depending on the size of the gift, the size of the box is selected. To the heart was smooth and symmetrical, it is worth taking the compasses and drawing on the sheet of office paper two slightly intersecting circles. Through the points of intersection, lower the strip downwards, for example, if the radius of the circles is 4 cm, then the length of this line will be 12 cm. To draw straight lines from the lateral rounds, the main workpiece will be cut out. Put the pattern on a blank sheet of white paper and circle it with a pencil. Inside the drawing, deviating from the edges by 3 mm, designate a contour of the heart of a slightly smaller size and cut out the second workpiece. The third template is made in the same way, 5 mm smaller than the previous one. In order not to be confused with them (after all, they are similar in size), it is recommended to number the bases. Then the contour of blanks is transferred to thick paper (cardstock), two details of size 1 are cut out - this will be the basis of the package. On colored or wrapping paper, draw two large contours, one small and medium one. Cut out bright blanks and go to the gluing stage.
Assembly and connection of parts
How to make a heart-shaped box of these cut-out elements? Two blanks of a dense cardstock are glued together with two pieces of wrapping paper. On one of them, from the monophonic side, a pencil is drawn around the contour of the smallest heart, and on the other, the middle one. These side lines will be glued to the side details, for which 4 rectangles, 2 larger and 2 smaller are cut out. For the declared dimensions, the heart is suitable for parts 21 x 3 and 22 x 3.5 cm. On the narrow side of each rectangle, add 1 cm, and with a wide strip - 5 mm for gluing the parts. Along the long stitching strip, cut out zigzag teeth. These triangles are to be glued with glue and attached to the base: longer along the contour of the workpiece 2, shorter by No. 3. From the colored wrapping paper, cut rectangles equal in size to the side walls and glue them to the inner and outer sides of the box. Inside the lid, attach the heart from the decorative wrapper, carved along the outline of template 2, and on the base of the box - the smallest. The main part of the work is completed, and the heart-shaped box is made with his own hands . You can proceed with the decoration.
Ready-made packaging
Very beautiful looks a box-heart made of paper, the edges of which are decorated with a ribbon, a bake, suitable for the coloring. As for decorating the top of the box, there are no restrictions for the imagination of the giver: you can glue colorful hearts, flowers from paper, strengthen bows, apply inscriptions, drawings or simply tie with satin ribbon. There is a huge number of options for tying simple and magnificent bows with different widths of cloth and volumes. Experienced needlewomen can decorate the cover with embroidery from beads or threads, knitted details or elements in the technique of decoupage. In any case, the heart-shaped box, created by own hands, will be the best design of any gift.
Other options for creating paper packaging
How to make a heart-box, if there is no time for all listed actions or a gift of a small size, and for it a small package will do? We suggest using the attached template. It is enough to put it on a sheet of packing paper and cut out on the contour. To seal the walls, you can use cardboard, for example, boxes from cereal or cereal. The cut out workpiece can only be bent along the dash lines and connected. If desired, strengthen the contact area with glue. If white paper served as the material for such a package, it's time to paint it: apply drawings, patterns or paste ribbons. In such a sweet little heart-shaped box it is convenient to present a small pleasant gift.
More experienced masters can use the origami technique and assemble a box in the form of a heart from a sheet of paper without a single cut and using glue. Also in the lid of the package, some make a transparent notch, through which immediately you can see the whole gift or its zadekorirovannuyu part. To do this, just in the center of the lid make a cutout in the form of a heart, and on the inside, glue a thin transparent (or in a box) plastic on the tape. Let the gifts please those whom they are addressed to, and how to make a box-heart to pack a meaningful presentation, you now know.