I love making boxes! It actually became my hobby and I had a lot of boxes in different shapes. But since they were all gone after the typhoon hit our home, I have to make these boxes again. It is easy to make boxes especially the rectangular ones. Today, I will share to you how to make a heart box out of cardboard. You can use any kind of cardboard. I used milk box for this one.
What you Need:
Paper for patterns
Cardboard
Scissors
Craft Glue
Wrappers/ Printed papers and plain ones too
What to Do:
1. Make patterns. You do not need rulers for this one. Just cut a heart from a piece of paper then cut another heart which is a bit bigger than the other. The bigger heart is for the cover while the smaller one is for the base. Then cut long strips for the lid and for the box. The other is thicker. You decide how deep you want your box to be.
2. Then using the patterns, cut your cardboards.
3. You have to trim the edges of the strips like how it is illustrated in Step 3 then make sure that it can go around the heart.
4. Glue the strips that you cut around the heart. Do this for both hearts.
5. For the mosaic part, I took a wrapper and cut them in any shape then using craft glue, I pasted them all over the box. Inside the box, I used red colored paper. Doing this mosaic thingy will make your box sturdier.
6. Shown is the finished mosaic for the inside of the box. And you are done!
You can use your heart box for giving gifts or for storing whatever items you want. You can decorate the top too. Just be creative. Making a heart box is easy isn’t it? Why don’t you try it?
that is really cute! and great for classroom valentines boxes!
Such a cute craft! My daughter would love this, especially as she gets ready for Valentine's Day activities at school.
I think it is so neat that you actually MAKE the boxes! Totally cute. This is definitely going on my Pinterest. 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
how cute! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the tutorial. I need to learn how to make boxes, instead of spending $$ to buy them.
I love the idea that you make your own box. So creative!
I can't believe you can make shapes like that!! I would have never even tried, this is a great tutorial. I love that I haven't seen anything like this before. thanks for linking to That's Fresh Friday!
This a cute idea.
I LOVE that the whole thing is made from scratch! Very cute
I wish there was a pinterest pin.
I do have a Pinterest button at the top Crystal. Here is the Pinterest link for this: pinterest.com/pin/454300681133100404/ Thanks you 🙂
Very cute! Thank-you for linking up to Blogger Brags Pinterest Party. I have pinned this post to our board!