#box tutorial

[zhalfirin-binds]

Square antiprism box

Part I

(many thanks @queercus-books for finding out what that shape is called XD)

Over a year ago I saw this particular kind of box on the bookbinders fair in Leiden (NL). After having been recently reminded of them, I decided to give it a go and try to reverse engineer them from the pictures I found here (check out her other boxes, they are gorgeous!).

After staring at the original boxes for a bit, it was obvious they were not covered on the inside after gathering them. The pattern was visible in one consecutive pattern. It told me that a) the board was laminate with the patterned paper while still flat and b) the box was made from one piece, not single pieces glued together. For that the corners and edges needed to be scratched, but not cut through.

What stumped me in the beginning was what angle to pick for the walls. Naturally the base of each triangle had to be as long as the sides of the squares it connected to, but a too pointy angle at the tip resulted in long boxes that looked rather twisted than having that bulbous look I was looking for.

The solution (after some more staring and a few more paper models) was 'right angles'! Any square piece of board can be made into this box by marking out the center square and have the walls point away in right angles.

Next I cut away the parts that won't be needed (to make sure I don't cut one of the side walls off, I crossed them out). The net of polyhedrons for this box could look different than this and still give me this shape, but with the way the paper pattern is was not visibly interrupted I'm confident this is the net the Dutch bookbinder has used. (It also wastes the least material)

Now it was scratching the other lines just enough so they would bend nicely, but not get too weak to hold the structure and test assemble. Shallow cuts and test bending every now and then helps to get there (also a metal ruler to keep carving the same line)

Cutting the board half way through ended me up with those gaps though. I''m not sure how much they would show if I dressed them just like that, but I decided to not take the risk and reinforced them with a white paper just in case.

The white paper is really just a white strip of paper long enough to go all around the box and a bit wider than one of the triangles is high so I could have an overlap and reinforcement to the bottom too. Part of why I did this was also to see if covering the body would work as I thought it would. With the angled planes the strip of paper bends up and and down, but in the end it's still one straight strip of paper.

I let it dry a bit before adding another layer, this time with the patterned paper and turn in's on top and bottom. In hindsight I could have cut the turn ins to the inside at an wider angle to avoid them reaching onto the better visible part, but then. this is the first time I made this box so I take that as a lesson learned.

Now all it needs is a base and a lid and I'm done.

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[rickadkinsartist1]

One Stamp At a Time September Blog Hop: I Need A Hero

One Stamp At a Time September Blog Hop: I Need A Hero

  Hello and welcome to the September One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop; this month’s theme was I Need A Hero.  I wanted to create a couple projects that could be given to a officer to show gratitude and appreciation for their courage.  I created a nice card and a cute box that could be filled with treats for the recipient.  I used the Ribbon of Courage Stamp set to create everything along with the…

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[minjungli]

Spiral box 

Tutorial

[homemade-projects]

A DIY Valentine's Pillowbox

More Homemade Projects

[pootlespapercraft]

Wide Square Hinged Box VIDEO

Stampin’ Up! UK Wide Square Hinged Box VIDEO

Oh I am so excited by this box!

One of my downline, the lovely Jocelyn, is an artisan soap maker and she also makes body lotions and creams (among other things, this woman’s talents just do not end!), and she wanted a box for her tubs that measure 8 x 8 x 6cm ( 3 18 x 3 1/8 x 2 3/8″), but as she’s newish to papercrafts, I wanted to stretch her box…

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