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Illustrations on how to make exquisite and beautiful heart-shaped paper boxes and gift boxes with ha

Illustrations on how to make exquisite and beautiful heart-shaped paper boxes and gift boxes with handmade DIY

We usually give gifts on many occasions and festivals. You might as well try folding this exquisite and beautiful gift box to wrap gifts, which can better reflect our feelings;
Materials needed: Beautifully patterned cardboard or thick wrapping paper, scissors , brad nails, ribbon or ribbon, glue or double-sided tape, paper flowers.

Illustrations on how to make exquisite and beautiful heart-shaped paper boxes and gift boxes with handmade DIY

Choose a piece of cardboard with a beautiful pattern and use scissors to cut it along the solid line, and then fold it along the dotted line (the valley fold line); there is a download of the cardboard at the end of the tutorial, you can download it and print it out.

Illustrations on how to make exquisite and beautiful heart-shaped paper boxes and gift boxes with handmade DIY

Turn it over to the front, that is, the printing side is facing down; take another piece of paper and cut out a heart shape. The size of the heart shape is the same as the heart shape in the picture above (black area a in Figure 2as shown), then cut out a semicircle and stick it on the front of the bag (handle), you can refer to the finished product; take another piece of paper, as shown in the black area b in Figure 2, cut out a long and stick it on with glue. Attach a long ribbon to the top of the black area b (the position indicated by the dot in the picture) to cover the edge of the paper that has just been glued on; paint the gray areas c, d, e and f everywhere. Apply glue; turn over to the back, that is, the printed side is facing up; fold the two sides upward, coincide with the heart-shaped position at the handle, and fold the semicircle through the hole downward; the four glued areas face Stuff the inside of the bag and press it to both sides so that it sticks to both sides; next, make the decorative flowers of the bag:

Illustrations on how to make exquisite and beautiful heart-shaped paper boxes and gift boxes with handmade DIY

a) Go through the center of the paper flower with a brad nail; b) Cut a ribbon of appropriate length and fold it in half; c) Cut a paper strip wider than the ribbon and cut it at a 45-degree angle; d) Turn down the picture in Figure 3 Punch a hole at the midpoint of the bottom of the folded semicircle. The size of the hole is determined by the brad nail; e) Thread both the ribbon and the paper tape on the brad nail and pass through the hole made by d.

Illustrations on how to make exquisite and beautiful heart-shaped paper boxes and gift boxes with handmade DIY

The picture above is a cardboard template. You can right-click and ‘save as’ to download and print.