Cathie Filian, creator and cohost of DIY’s Creative Juice, shares her tricks for crafting unique gift boxes, bags and other embellishments! These projects will cost you a fraction of what you’d spend on the card store stuff.
8. Gift Wrap Idea: Poof! Instant Jewelry Box
Follow Filian’s five-step origami technique and you’ll soon have an adorable gift box, perfectly sized for jewelry and small trinkets. Choose decorative prints and you can skip the wrapping paper.
What You’ll Need: Two 12 by 12 inch. sheets of scrapbook paper (25 cents a sheet at most craft stores), scissors, bone folder or credit card.
How It’s Done: 1. To make the box lid, fold one paper square in half diagonally, first one way and then the other, sharply creasing the folds with a bone folder or an old credit card before unfolding.
2. Fold the four corners in until they meet in the center of the paper, crease sharply and unfold.
3. Beginning with the paper unfolded, fold one of the corners until it meets the farthest crease line opposite that corner. Crease, unfold and repeat the process with the remaining three corners. Finally, fold each corner to its closest crease line before unfolding all corners to reveal an overall pattern of creased squares.
4.Fold two opposite triangular corners at their first crease lines; fold again at the next crease lines. Use the last crease to stand up box sides. Using your thumbs, gently fold in the remaining box sides along crease lines, forming the sides of the box. Crease and fold in the last triangular corner flaps to complete the box.
5. To make the bottom of the box, trim a 12"x12" piece of scrapbook paper to 11-1/2"x11-1/2" and repeat the steps for the top of the box.)
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