Sometimes we send your girlfriend a gift for her birthday, we need a gift box for packaging. Have you ever thought of that we can make the package carton ourselves? I bought a book at Kinokuniya in New York that has hundreds of 3-D packaging forms, covering lots of shapes and purposes. I think it’s one of the best book investments I’ve ever made. I put together one of the forms as packaging for the boxer shorts that I gave to my husband for Valentine’s Day.
Here are the details of how to make a gift bow:
First we should choose a cardboard with your favorite color. I want to make a folding carton package. I used some green cardstock that I screen printed with a decorative pattern. After resizing one of the patterns from the CD included with the book, I printed it on the back of the cardstock.
I used a craft knife to cut out the box and a bone folder to crease along the folds. Ordinary Elmer’s glue is what holds the box together.
I glued in a cut-up sandwich bag to form the transparent window. After everything dried I wedged Mr. Lollipop’s boxer shorts into place.
And the last, the carton finished. If you do not like the pattern of this package box, you can change it with the box printer, or you can call it carton printer. Print some your favorite images on your gift box for decoration. Do you know of other books/sites that have great DIY box tutorials and templates?
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