Recycling Greeting Cards - Christmas Card Gift Box AllFreeCrafts.com "Free crafts, craft projects and patterns to make easy homemade gifts." Free PatternsHoliday CraftsFree Craft ProjectsGreen CraftsUpdates Recycling Crafts...see more Recycle Greeting Cards: Make a Christmas Gift Box from Used Christmas Cards Copyright © 2002-2009 Jane Lake These little gift boxes are a wonderful homemade craft for children or anyone who likes to recycle. Use Christmas cards, tie up with Christmas ribbon and they make neat Christmas tree trims that can hold little surprises - although they would be good for Easter or other occasions as well. I've made them into a join-the-dots craft, so there's no measuring involved - just print out the template, transfer 12 dots for each square pattern piece, join them as instructed and away you go - just follow the rest of the instructions and you'll be making recycled greeting cards into gift boxes in no time! Recycled Greeting Card Box Craft supplies you will need: greeting cards ruler scissors pencil white glue (optional) glitter, ribbon, rick-rack or other embellishments (optional) Printed template Greeting Card Box Instructions Related Videos Note: This project is more difficult to explain than it is to do; once you have made one box, the next ones will go together more quickly and easily. ❍ ■ First print out the full size pattern You can use the pattern many times as you don't need to cut it. The smaller pattern is the bottom of the box, using the back page of the greeting card. Don't worry about a verse or two, or any other small amount of printing; usually it's invisible when the box is folded up. The larger pattern makes the box top. There are fold lines indicated, and two cut lines - you will assemble both the top and the bottom of the box in exactly the same way. PlayClick PlayClick to Play to Play How toHow TurntoPop make top aCans Shadow to Favor Box Card Boxes Begin by placing the pattern on the back of your card. For the top of the box, try to position it so that the most colorful or interesting scene of the card front will be centered in the middle of the pattern. ● Working on the back, transfer 12 dots, as shown on the pattern, to your card. Place 4 dots at each corner of the square, and two more on each side, where indicated. ❍ Now join the dots, copying the pattern. It isn't necessary to draw coloured lines; the colours are only to help with the instructions for the box -- you'll find, when you're done, that it sounds much more complicated than it is! PlayClick to Play How to make a Cute Box PlayClick to Play How to make a 2-4-6-8 Mini Treat Box Next, cut into your card template where indicated on the pattern by the green lines. It's time to start folding. Work from the blank side of the card, which will be the inside of your box. Begin by folding the four corner triangles outwards, so you're folding toward the printed side of the card. ❍ PlayClick to Play How to make a Match Box Holder ● Figure 1 Now take a box side and fold it in half to crease it so the green corner line will meet the red line of the inside square, as shown on the paper template. Repeat with the other sides. See Figure 1. PlayClick to Play How to make a Gift Box Figure 2 On the two longer sections, you will need to fold in the ends, as shown in Figure 2. These form two flaps which hold the box together in the last step. ❍ PlayClick to Play Diorama Box with Dawn Figure 3 Fold up the sides to form your box. ● PlayClick to Play How to make Your Own Portable Glitter... ❍ PlayClick to Play How to make a Scroll Invitation Card ● Figure 4 Last step is to fold the straight sides over the flaps that were made in Figure 2. PlayClick to Play How to Make Envelopes from Recycled... Push all the triangular ends into place at the bottom of the box. Usually no glue is required to keep the box together, however if you find the folds coming open, use a small dab of glue to fasten in place. Use the same method to make the box bottom and the box top. You will find the top fits over the bottom fairly snugly, so the box when assembled does not fall apart. ❍ Now you have made a tiny treasure box from a recycled greeting card. These are suitable in size to hold small treats, a few coins, candy, earrings or other small gifts. For Halloween, add treat gifts or a small assortment of stickers, an eraser, pencil sharpener etc. And for Christmas, embellish with thin ribbon and hang from your Christmas tree as ornaments to be opened on Christmas Day. They can also be added to wreaths, table settings etc. as a colourful little addition that holds a nice surprise. Leave a Comment Show: Sort: Newest first PlayClick to Play How to Make Economical Christmas Card ● 10 Oldest first PlayClick to Play Make Origami Nesquik Shakers 1-10 of 63 Comments kun – www.gift-boxes1. com Aug 16, 2010 - 23:47 ❍ Nice idea, if you need another idea, you can check my site. Thks AngieMac – Grimsby, ON Canada PlayClick to Play How to Make Recycled Gift Boxes for Xmas Jul 22, 2010 - 00:36 This was so easy to do. Unbelievable. First box took 3 minutes. It took longer for my printer to print the template. ● And suggestions to all: copy the template to another program where you can scale it for card size! Also - do you think this would work to recycle gift boxes - like the ones for clothes that fall apart easy? I'd bet if you can fold the board - you'd make a sturdier box! PlayClick to Play How to Recycle Tic Tac Box ❍ dfsabfgsfg a – gfshghfs Jun 13, 2010 - 17:14 how many greeting cards???????????????????????????????????????????????? Millie Jean Mills – Boone, NC PlayClick to Play How to Make a Chest of Drawers from... Jan 12, 2010 - 15:01 ● Where is the template..Pattern for box? PlayClick to Play How to Make a Chest of Drawers from... Reply to Millie Jean Mills Inez Bugman – Minnesota Jan 15, 2010 - 12:05 ❍ I've made these before but lost the pattern. I love giving then with treats Reply to Millie Jean Mills amber – NM PlayClick to Play Surf Sufficient - Recycled Beer Coasters Jan 30, 2010 - 23:44 Under the list of item needed, click on PRINTED TEMPLATE to print the template. shelley – guelph ● Dec 21, 2009 - 10:34 PlayClick to Play How to Make a Triangle Fold Room Card click on the printed template ❍ Alys O – Marlborough, New Zealand Dec 10, 2009 - 20:43 Still waiting for reply PlayClick to Play How to Make Handmade Easter Cards Reply to Alys O Master in Boxology – Huntington Beach, CA, USA Dec 15, 2009 - 01:32 ● THE BOX PATTERN IS LAST ON THE LIST OF ITEMS NEEDED To Make the boxes. Just click on pattern and it opens the page to print. Claire – Tallahassee Dec 10, 2009 - 06:12 I like the recycled Christams Card Box, but it states to print out the pattern, where is the pattern? PlayClick to Play How to Make Metal Wall Art By 5min ‹ ...› Make a Comment Related Recycling Crafts: Leave a Comment * Your name Recycled Paper Bows Recycled Gift Bags Recycled Magazine Holders * Your email address (will not be published) Recycled Calendar Prints Your location Decoupage Postage Stamp Tin Remember me ? Subscribe: No All comments ? Replies to my comment ? ? 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