Boxed Gift Cards Tutorial with Free Printable Template

Friends, I'm SO excited to share today's post with you!  I'm over the moon excited that I am now selling the hoards of greeting cards I've made over the years at a local shop to support a charity I'm passionate towards, SWITCH.  Their mission is to fight human trafficking and sexual exploitation in my home state.  Find out more and get involved HERE.  For the holidays, I wanted to make some boxed sets of cards.  These would be great gifts for your friends and family!  I wanted to design a box template that could be adaptable for different shapes and sizes of cards, so I wrote a little formula to give you EVERY card size box measurements for FOUR thicknesses of boxes!  Whew!  ;0  I find the 1/2" box to be good for those way to thick, fat cards I'm known to make.  I turned all of these charts into free printables for your downloading pleasure.  Click on the text below to download each PDF chart.

Half Inch Tall Boxed Gift Card Template

One Inch Tall Boxed Gift Card Template

One and Quarter Inch Tall Boxed Gift Card Template

One and One Half Inch Tall Boxed Gift Card Template

To make your custom sized box, simply select the card size of your finished card.  Next, follow the "Cut Base Size" measurements to cut the base of your box.  Select the "Score Base" measurements according to the height you'd like your finished box to be (each PDF file is for one specific height of box).  Score all four sides of your box base according to this measurement.  (I used a Martha Stewart Scoreboard, but you can use a stylus and your paper cutter to score as well.)

Next, use the "Cut Lid Size" measurement to determine the size to cut your box lid.  Following the "Score Lid" measurement, score all four sides according to this measurement.  Note: I used a standard 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" card size for the photographed box, with a 1 1/4" height.

At this point, snip along the scorelines as shown above.  You could glue the tabs in and decorate the cover OR, as I have done, you could cut a window.

I used the Tim Holtz Stitched Rectangles die and taped it securely in the center of my lid and folded the flaps above the die.  Once I punched out this section, I simply glued a piece of acetate 1/8" larger than my finished card size to the inside of my box.  Then I adhered the flaps.

Now, you certainly don't have to fill your boxes with Christmas cards...  But I did!  :)

I colored these fabulous new Santas from the Tim Holtz Yuletide stamp set at a craft day with my artsy friends on World Cardmaking Day.  I used a water brush and Distress Inks in Fired Brick, Vintage Photo and Antique Linen.   Making multiples is a great way to be productive at crops or group crafting sessions.

I used last year's Paper Stash.  I gave the stitched oval a splash of black gesso to coordinate.  The greenery is from the Mini Holiday Greens die set.  These cards are festive and flat!  Perfect for a boxed set of mailable Christmas cards. 

And here they are all boxed up! To make the closure, I loosely wrapped my ribbon around and glued the ends together so it could easily be slid off.  Then I made a bow and glued it over the joined ends.  The tag was stamped with Tim's Merchant and Great Outdoors stamps.  Friends, I hope you enjoyed this post and will Pin it for future reference.  I'll share the other cards I made soon, so check back or subscribe so you don't miss a thing.  Leave me a comment with links to the boxes you make. 

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