Paper gift bag and box tutorials

Posted on 29th October 2012 by Papermilldirect
Filed under All Papercraft Tutorials

Making your own gift bags and gift boxes is great for saving a few pounds, it also makes your gift wrapping unique as you can carefully embellish the bags and boxes in your own style. We've collected these tutorial from around the internet - you can also take a look at our paper gift bags and gift boxes Pinterest board - a great resource for crafty inspiration as always!

Pretty paper gift bag tutorial

This tutorial uses a particular 'Top Note' Die - however if you don't have one, you could create the same shape - or something similar yourself.  Cutting the top shape yourself would also give you lots of flexibility over the size of the gift bag.

Attractive Pyramid Gift Box tutorial

This Newspaper gift bag tutorial is fab - save yourself lots of money, it looks great and you are recycling paper!

Origami Paper Gift Box

These gift boxes are very simple to make, just a series of folds!  The video below shows exactly how to make them.

Super sweet strawberry gift boxes - made from paper using a simple template

In this handled paper gift bag tutorial it suggest buying the handles - but I'm fairly sure you could adapt this and use ribbons to create the handles - let us know how you get on if you do give this gift bag a go!

The tutorial for this 'puffy' card gift box can be found here - it's made by drawing around a cd to get those perfect concave edges - really clever!  Or take a look below at the useful video tutorial for creating pillow / puffy gift boxes.

Have fun making up these gift boxes and if you're really proud of them why not post them to our facebook wall.  If they're really christmassy you could also enter them into our Christmas papercrafts competition to win a box of card every month during 2013!

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