Wedding gift box

Each of us, at least once in our lives, was invited to a wedding, and some even had the chance to be an honorary witness. On the eve of the wedding, every invited guest faces several difficult questions: the first is what to wear, and the second is present. If the first is in most cases solved by revising the closet and trying on several outfits, then the second requires a good understanding of the interests of the newlyweds. Very often, the choice of guests falls on monetary gifts or household appliances (documents for appliances are most often presented at weddings). We suggest you make a small box for a gift or money. The box is suitable for a small gift for a birthday, Valentine's Day or any other holiday.

We will need:
- white thick paper or cardboard;
- ruler;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- decorative cardboard or beautiful wallpaper;
- glue or double-sided tape;
- ribbon;
- actually, the gift itself.

Let's get to work. Stages of making a decorative box.
1. We will make a frame for the future box. Determine the exact size of the gift. Add another 1 cm on each side to the size of the gift - these will be the sides.For our gift (we gave a disk), we determined the following dimensions of the box: 12.5 cm by 12.5 cm. By adding 1 centimeter on each side, we got a square base of 14.5 * 14.5 cm.
2. Draw 4 lines over each face of the square: the distance between the square and the first line is 1.5 cm, between the first and second - 1 cm, between the second and third - 1.5 cm, between the third and fourth - 1 cm. You should get a large square.

3. Trim small squares where the drawn lines intersect. The result was a cross-shaped piece of paper. You need to make small cuts on two parallel sections. On the first strip from the edge, cut a small triangle, on the second - a rectangle 1.5 by 1 cm, on the third - a triangle. As a result, you should get a trapezoidal cutout on both sides.

4. Bend the frame along the pencil lines so that the edges of the cardboard bend inward.

5. Using craft glue or double-sided tape (construction tape will not work, it is too thick), connect the outer strip and the square base of the box.

Do the same with all the other sides of the box.

6. From decorative cardboard or beautiful wallpaper (we, for example, used non-woven wallpaper that was left over after renovation), cut out a rectangle, the size of which can be easily calculated: the width corresponds to the width of the base, and the length is calculated using the formula - (length of the future box * 2) + (side width*2) = small seam allowance. We got a width of 14.5 cm and a length of 32 cm + 1 cm for the seam.