Oriental Trinket Box 

originally seen on 

Mixed up Craft

This project is mildly simple but careful measurements and a little practice may be necessary. 

It takes 1 12"x12" piece of card and 2 A4 pieces of card.

A scoring tool and Ruler (although a scoreboard would be useful it is possible without)

a bone folder to define the score lines.

Scissors and High Tack Glue. 

Step 1

Cut patterned card to  get 4" x 4"1/4 , two of these 

and one coordinating  3"7/8 sq

 Step 2

Score the 12"x12" @ 2", 4", 8" and 10" turn and repeat.

Cut the 12" box base where indicated.  

keep 2 of the squares to make the feet.

Score the coordinating card @ 101/2 x 41/2 @ 41/4 (if using score board) move to just before the first notch and score at 63/8 (add a few mm if using ruler).

Step 3

Apply glue to the 4 tabs 

Glue down the box tabs inside the box base

 and fold and glue the sides.

Attach the two 41/2 to the top of the wrap around on both sides of what will be the lid

 of the box

 glue the smaller square to the inside of the box.

attach the box to base/lid wrap around and let it set aside to set.

Last stage

2 of the 2" squares will make the 4 feet

score each at 1/2" 1"  and 11/2"  

turn and score down middle, cut this score line.

fold score lines and glue one side to the other to make a triangle foot. 

see picture.

attach these to each corner of Box Base.

Optional 

if you want to close the box with ribbon attach the ribbon to the lid before gluing the 41/2" piece. and to the base before attaching the box.

decorate with flowers, gems, glitter or what ever looks good.

Relaunch

After a short break to finish my studies i have returned to the craft room and i am now ready to invite you to join me on my journey.

I will be posting tutorials, favorite makes and testing out some new purchases.  

The craft community is a sharing community and if i see something i like i will try it out for myself, where i have done this i will try to tag the original Crafter so you all know where i got the idea from. most of the time i will be putting my own style or spin on the idea and i will try to share what i found interesting and what i found difficult about the project.

My craft room has recently been featured in the Papercraft Inspirations Magazine and i was sent This Hunkydory Rose Gold Destinations Case kit, so i thought i would show you how i put them together.

this is a simple kit to put together.

Tools required: a bone folder, Ultra high tack tape and a wet glue.

The first thing to do is to burnish all the per-scored lines with the bone folder and attach the tape to the side sections as in the picture below,

I then used the wet glue run slightly over the tape to insure i had some wiggle time to get the side tags attached correctly insuring that they lined up and were secure.  I did this by positioning the side with no tags on the mat and bringing the sides to their position with the help of the bone scorer used as a guide inside to stop the sides slipping out of position.

 

after the sides are secure and the glue is set,

 (which will be fairly quickly if you have used tacky glue) 

you can use the other pieces in the kit to decorate the cases or use some flowers, gems 

and other items form your craft stash to personalize.