Hinged Box Tutorial
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Dear friends so sorry I have not been over to your blogs--was suffering from a bad flu! And this is the promised tutorial for the hinged box.
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I love the way the box lid opens in a hinged fashion.Added some quilling and punchcraft flowers to the lid of my hinged box.
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Materials required to make the boxCard stock -not too thick!
Scoring tool -use a bone folder or anything pointed like a blunt knife or a ball point pen which has run out of ink
Score board or scale to measure
Glue- I prefer white glue fevicol MR
Scissors
Sharing the instructions to make a box 3.5 x 3.5 inches and 1 inch in depth.I wanted this dimension to serve as a box for a 3x 3 inch post it note holder.Shall later share the trick to make any sized hinged box!
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Take a 10 x 5.5 inch card.
On the 10 inch long side, score at 1, 4.5,5.5 and 9 inches.If you dont have a score board that will translate to score intervals of 1 inch , 3.5 inches,1 inch and 3.5 inches [leaving 1 inch at the end] to make a 3.5inch wide hinged box.
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Turn the card 90 degree and score at
1 and 4.5.
If you dont have a score board that will translate to score intervals of 1 inch and 3.5 inches [leaving 1 inch at the end] to make a 3.5inch square hinged box. |
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Once your lines are scored.Cut on the parts as indicated by the red lines above in the box template
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Valley fold on all the score lines.If you wish for a more polished look for your final box, wedge cut all 6 squares as shown in the box template.
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More modifications[optional]:If you wish to avoid the flappy appearance some hinged box lids have,chop off a triangular wedge from the lid flap as shown in the box template .
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To give the lid a professional look and make it easier to open the box, punch out a semicircle on the center of the lid flap as shown in the box tutorial.
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Apply glue on the outside of the square flaps and glue one by one to make the base, hinge and lid of your hinged box.
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The picture below shows the glue on the square tab of the hinge area of the box.
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Once all tabs are glued in position,you have your basic hinged box.
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To make it easy to open your box and also glamorize it a bit ,stick on the lid and base pieces of card which are slightly larger than your hinged box.
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To make any sized hinged box
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In the box template above ,b and c are how wide and long the final box will be and a is the depth of the box. To calculate what size of card stock required to make a box of desired dimensions
Width of card stock required =2 a + c
Length of card stock required= 3 a + 2 b
So if you want a box measuring 3 inch long x 2inch wide x 1 inch depth ; Width of card required = 2 x 1 +3=5 and Length of card required = 3 x 1+ 2 x 2=7. So using a 5 x 7 inches paper you can make a 3x 2 x 1 hinged box.And if you are with me till now, you can actually use these algebra equations to figure out the dimensions of the box you can make from a given sized paper!
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Dont be daunted by the maths [I dont enjoy maths myself but algebra was always a favorite !] ,this is one of the easiest boxes to make!Do try it!
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