It's my dad's birthday coming up (although by the time that I post this it will have already passed) so I decided to build a cool box to put one of his gifts in and naturally I made it Camino-themed!
I hope that after he's taken the present out Dad will be able to use the box to keep in some items from the Camino (like his credentials maybe or any postcards etc).
It did take a bit of time to make the box but mainly because I had no idea as to whether or not it would work or not, if I were to do it again (which I doubt I will!) it would take a lot less time. Set aside an hour or two depending on experience just to be safe, this isn't a quick craft but it looks good - Dad doesn't know what's inside but he's pretty impressed with the box itself!
I was lucky enough to be able to find a yellow cardboard box at Ikea but you could use a brown one and cover it with yellow paper afterwards (or paint it yellow if you prefer). You also need a craft knife and/or scissors, a ruler (I used a 15cm one as that was all that I had but a 30cm ruler would have been better), a pencil and some sellotape.
The size that I made the box was dictated by the size of the gift and that of the box. The shaft end is 14cm wide and up to the point of the arrow is 25cm long and the arrow's point adds 10cm more length and sticks out 6.5cm from the shaft of the arrow and then I just connected these points with a line about 17.1cm long at an angle of about 37 degrees (I hope that that all makes sense! For anyone who only works in inches the shaft is 10inches long, about 5.5 wide, the point adds about 4inches and sticks out just under 3 inches from the shaft).
Two of these were made, one to be the base and the other the lid.
Next I made the edges - for the base they are 5cm (a bit under 2 inches) high and are connected right at the edge of the base (so that they are as flat to the ground as the cardboard base is if that makes sense - connected to the base's edge).
The lid's edges are half the size of those for the lid at 2.5cm and are connected half a centimetre (5mm) from the edge of the box so that their bottom edge sits of the cardboard (not against the edge of the cardboard as for the lid) - you can see all of this best in the second picture below I think.
I hope that that all makes sense to you!
I hope that after he's taken the present out Dad will be able to use the box to keep in some items from the Camino (like his credentials maybe or any postcards etc).
It did take a bit of time to make the box but mainly because I had no idea as to whether or not it would work or not, if I were to do it again (which I doubt I will!) it would take a lot less time. Set aside an hour or two depending on experience just to be safe, this isn't a quick craft but it looks good - Dad doesn't know what's inside but he's pretty impressed with the box itself!
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