Hexagonal gift boxes

If you live in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Peru, Switzerland, Canada, Belgium or Brazil (along with a host of other countries) it’s coming up to Mothers Day. Stumped as to a gift idea? Why not make or bake your mum something sweet and nestle it in a cute hexagon gift box?

I’ve had a bit of fun messing around with watercolour splodges and have come up with a couple of templates for you to download and make up. Or you can download the blank template and decorate as you wish!

For this project you’ll need:
Adhesive or double-sided tape
The thickest A4 card stock you can put through your printer (mine takes 200gsm, but check your printer for details)
Scissors, scalpel or exacto knife
Some decorative ribbon (I’ve marked cutouts to allow for 10mm wide ribbon)
Some paints, crayons, pencils or other decorative materials (if working with the blank template)

The templates make up 2 sized boxes 72mm wide in diameter (point to point) x 60mm high
and 90mm wide in diameter (point to point) x 43mm high

You could easily scale them up and print on A3 card if you required them to be larger.

For the ones above I did some quick watercolour scribbles and added handwritten notes in white pencil (white charcoal pencil to be exact). But the sky is the limit. You could bedazzle, embroider, paint, draw… whatever you’d like! This would be rather a lovely project to work on with a small child as you could cut it out and they could decorate the box as they wish and with a little help from you, assemble it.

Print and cut out your desired template. I cut my templates out using my Graphtec cutter/ plotter but it’s not a difficult template to cut out by hand.

If you’ve printed out the plain template, now is the time to get scribbling and decorating to your hearts content!

Fold along each of the dotted lines and glue the edge tab to the underside of the opposing panel to create the hexagonal shape.

If you need a ‘base’ in your gift box for heavier gifts, glue one set of the top tabs and gift box lids together for extra support as shown (I used strong double-sided tape).

To attach the ribbon, glue the ribbon to the underside of the tab shown and thread through the ribbon slot as shown.

Then thread through the corresponding ribbon slot in the lid, pulling though and aligning the lid and tabs. Repeat on both sides and tie into a pretty bow.

And there you have it. Pretty hexagonal gift boxes ready for your gift!

Download the 72 x 60 patterned gift box here (67mb)

Download the 72 x 60 plain gift box here (67mb)

Download the 90 x 43 patterned gift box here (112mb)

Download the 90 x 43 plain gift box here (112mb)

Apologies for the large size files and so slow load times. I am still trying to find a way to reduce them further.

Please do not link to my templates directly, if you want to share my work, please link back to this blog post.
Thank you.

Hexagonal gift boxes by Next to Nicx by Nicola Pravato is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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May 6, 2013
Craft, Design, DIY, Holidays, Packaging, Paper art, Tutorial
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Paper Tea Cup #1 Lid (insert option)

As promised, here is the very belated, revised lid I designed for my Paper Tea Cups #1!

It won’t fit on yesterdays tea cup, I’m still working on a lid design for it, it’s a little trickier.

I love this design as it allows for the addition of a ribbon and bow, whilst maintaining the clean lines on the exterior of the cup.

As promised, here is the alternate tea cup design! It’s a bit taller and wider than the one I uploaded last week. But I’m really happy with the design! It goes together exactly the same as Paper Tea Cup #1 . It’s cut out of 160gsm card stock and glued together with a quick drying adhesive or double sided tape. Read more

Paper Tea Cups #1

I’ve been messing around with paper. I’m not sure exactly why I decided to make paper tea cups, but inspiration hit over the holidays and I couldn’t find one online. Hence the gauntlet was thrown down! I had to make one. It took me a lot longer than I anticipated. But I’m ecstatic with the results! This is by far and away my favourite template/ tutorial so far. AND I’ve got another version of it almost ready to upload next week.

These would be perfect as use for cupcakes, biscuits, little presents, used as gift boxes or just as gorgeous packaging. Paint them, embroider them, bedazzle them… The options are endless! I created a lid template so it becomes a very usable gift box but I had a lightening bolt moment last night and I’m now sure I’ve worked out how to make a lid that sits inside the cup so that the pretty outer lines of the tea cup aren’t ruined. I’ll include it with the other version of the tea cup that I’ll upload next week.

Christmas is almost upon us! Are you ready for it?

I wrapped the last of my presents today. And thought I’d show you one of my favourites. It’s quick and easy and allows you to really spruce up a present with nothing more than glue, a sharpie and some glitter. It’s perfect for those last minute gifts if you’ve been caught out without wrapping or ribbon. Read more

Free Christmas Printable Gift Tags

It’s that most wonderful time of the year…. The time when you feel like you’re running late (and you are) for about 3 weeks straight. You’re prepping for guests or for travel, hiding Christmas presents from loved ones (and trying to remember where you hid them later), making fruit cake and trying not to consume the alcohol for the cake… before it gets into the cake. And in amongst the chaos that is the festive season, you need to wrap presents!

And if most of the people I’ve discussed this with are anything to go by, you get to the night before the big day in question and the stash of wrap you grabbed as you raced out of the store but didn’t really look at properly taunts you. And you make do. Or you get to the gift wrap section and anything that is half decent is gone. All that’s left is the paper covered in gaudy glitter. The wrapping paper equivalent of a Christmas sweater featuring Rudolph with blinking nose. The one that doesn’t fall into the so bad it’s good category. It’s just bad.

So I’m here to help. I’ve come across so many gorgeous printables that you can use quickly and easily and I want to share them with you. They’ll enable you to present perfectly polished presents! So go grab a roll of brown paper, some bakers twine and your tape. Print and cut these out and you’ll be set!

These are some of my favourite this year! By Kelli Murray Art and Design.
Click on the images to link through to the respective printable post.

I’ve been busy creating items for Christmas this week. I’ve been struggling to pin down what I wanted to do for our Christmas cards. I love what I’ve made but there’s just a few things that I’m not 100% happy with. So I put the card project aside to come back to and started creating packaging for the Dulce de Leche I made the other day.

I thought that as I’m basically giving away cooked milk I’d put them into little milk cartons.

This is the result! What do you think?

I think they’d also make lovely boxes for small gifts or for biscuits or little Christmas cakes.

A little robot advent

A friend of mine dropped into conversation that she thought that I sketch I’d done years ago would look rather cute as an advent calendar. So I spent a little time this week playing with it to see if I could get it to work. Et voilà!! Here is the result!

Template and Tutorial

You might remember the small pretty patterned paper bag template I did a few months ago?
Well I find myself in need of something a little larger recently and so decided to modify the template and scale it up to fit an A3 piece of paper. I bought some lovely 180gsm A3 paper from my local paper store and some cute cotton tape from my local haberdashery and got to work.

This is what I come up with! The final bag measures 12.7 cm wide x 19 cm high x 4.8 cm deep

Pretty patterned paper bags!

After I’d made up chocolate wrappers for my Husband’s Uncle and Aunt last week. I made some gift bags for our nephews. Creating a template that can be printed out on A4 paper.

They looked rather cute! So I decided to do a series of them so that you can download and create your own!

The finished bag size is 135mm high x 90mm wide x 35mm deep. As with the chocolate wrappers, I cut a roll of brown paper I have into A4 sheet size and fed it through my inkjet printer.