This detailed master class will teach you how to make a gift box-wrap yourself.
To create a heart basket, you should prepare:
- 2 sheets of cardboard of contrasting colors (in this case, green and orange paper was used),
- scissors, glue stick,
- hole punch in the form of a heart,
- paper tape,
- knife for artwork,
- tool for creasing,
- 2 half-beads or rhinestones.
The basis for making this basket wasThe templates were taken from the Danish masters Lene and Anna Schepper. I added small flower silhouettes to the original stencil, which are quite easy to cut out.And to decorate the middle of the basket we will use a template like this flower.We print the main stencils on orange and green cardboard.Now it is necessary to perform creasing(pressing) the middle line and fold the sheet in half, securing the connection with paper clips. This is necessary so that the contour flowers located along the edge of the basket are symmetrical. Cut them out.Then we cut out the flowers located on the petals and trim the basket around the perimeter.We make cuts with the help of which the parts will beconnect. In the green blank, the cutout is located at the bottom, and in the orange one - at the top. Fold the 2 halves of the basket in half, marking the fold line. Punch out (or cut out) 20 hearts - 10 blanks of each color.And glue them from the inside, shading the outline flowers with color. To decorate the middle flower, cut out a circle with a diameter of 3 cm.This is how the front sides of the future basket look now.We connect the parts together, securing them with the help of counter cuts.That's it. We align the edges.And we glue only the center of the flower - this way the parts will be fixed and will not shift.Now we make two-color hearts. To do this, we make cuts in the blanks that reach the middle of the heart. In green - from below, and in orange - from above (or vice versa).We connect the hearts and glue the halves.We attach them to the bottom of each side of the basket to give it rigidity.For the handles, cut out 2 strips 30 cm long and 1 cm wide. Attach them to the basket using paper tape.Attach the heart on top and carefully remove the excess tape with a knife.We also fix the handles on the opposite side.sides. And the final stage is to make the middle of the basket in the form of a flower. A small piece of light-colored cardboard will do for this. Attach 2 templates with a stapler and cut them out.We attach the flowers to the basket also using paper tape.Glue a half bead or rhinestone into the center.And our Valentine basket is ready!It turned out not only beautiful, but also large and dense enough to accommodate gifts. Its height is 18 cm (excluding the handle), and its width is 21 cm.And the little panda is comfortable inside!This is how winter and spring meet, like these two baskets. Replacing each other, and reminding us of the everlasting beauty of any time of year.