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Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box

This is an illustrated tutorial for hand-making a heart-shaped origami box. Once the love box is made, it can be used as a box for wrapping gifts or as a miscellaneous box. Let’s teach you how to wrap a heart-shaped gift box. If you like it, just follow our illustrated DIY heart-shaped origami box tutorial!

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
Make Tools needed for the love box: cardboard (cardboard shell or shoe box is acceptable), scissors, solid glue, something to draw a circle (or use a compass), pen, a piece of good-looking wrapping paper (you can also use white paper, and Draw your own pattern)

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
1 , use a cup to draw two circles on it, then use a ruler to draw a straight line in the middle, and then connect the two sides together to draw a heart shape

Note: The size of the circle determines the size of your box. When making it, be sure to look at the size of the items you want to pack and choose the appropriate size. Otherwise, if you make it smaller, the items will not fit in.

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
2 , cut it out like this (there are two heart shapes in total, but one is a little bigger than the other, because the lid is to be made, it is the same size but cannot be buckled!)

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
3 , then cut two long strips of cardboard, the width is the height of the box you want to make

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
4. The next step is to cut out the wrapping paper. Just cut the heart-shaped one according to the previous cut. The long strip is wider than the cardboard just now because it needs more Glue on the heart-shaped cardboard so you can connect them!

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
5 After gluing the long strips as shown in the picture, cut the excess into small pieces, which will make it easier to connect the heart-shaped cardboard later.

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
Photo A closer one

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
6 , this is what it looks like when connected to the heart-shaped cardboard

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
7 , this is what it will look like after gluing

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
8 , turned over, this is what it looks like

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
9 , and the other one is the same. This way, our box is not far away from completion!

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
10 , is it right to turn it over like this?You can already see what the box looks like

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
11 , then glue the heart-shaped paper on, and the gift box is basically completed!

Illustration of hand-made heart-shaped box, DIY gift-wrapping love box
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Extended reading:

1. The process of making handmade origami cups. Teach you how to fold three-dimensional paper cups

2. 3D paper cup origami tutorial illustration

3. Illustration of the steps of origami for a three-dimensional round cup

4. How to fold a hand-made origami three-dimensional round cup

5. Illustrated tutorial on folding a small origami cup