Amazing 3D Papercrafts

Use your crafty skills to create two of Jodie Johnson’s stunning three-dimensional boxes

SKILL LEVEL

There is nothing quite like taking a plain, flat piece of A4 card and totally transforming it into a 3D work of art. Jodie Johnson demonstrates how you can do just that with a whimsical umbrella box and a divine jewellery box using the brand new Tonic Studios Dimensions dies. And the beauty of these projects? They can be as simple or as ornate as you want them to be.

Jewellery box

Kit List

Tonic Studios Verso die set A4 die cutting machine Card, 240gsm: dark purple, gold, pink, light purple Double sided tape Glue Double sided sticky sheet

1Die cut all of the base core shapes from dark purple card. Take the two long strips with feet and stick the short ends together. Wrap this piece around the large rectangular base with tabs to create the base of the jewellery box. 2 Find the four score lines at the top of the box you’ve just created. Leave the o ne across the back to become the glue tab for the lid, and fold and stick the other three down inside. 3 Take the other two long die-cut pieces and stick the short ends together. Top with the rectangular piece that doesn’t have any glue tabs. 4 Stick the lid to the glue tab on the base, and decorate. To decorate the box with the paper piecing method as shown, die cut a detail piece and add to a sticky sheet. Die cut the same piece in light purple, dark purple and pink and use the negative die cuts to fill in the empty spaces, then adhere the piece to the box.

Helping HAND

High-quality 240gsm card is sturdy enough to create 3D projects, but still lightweight enough to produce perfect folds on your score lines.

Red liner tape is perfect for papercrafting. Paper piecing simply means sticking bits of coloured paper into the detail holes of your die cut.

When paper piecing, use double-sided sticky sheets and a sticky pick up tool so you don’t lose any pieces.

Umbrella box

Kit List

Tonic Studios: Dolce Umbrella Box die set; Dolce Bases and Tags die set A4 die cutting machine Card, 240gsm: dark purple, gold, pink, light purple Double-sided tape Glue Double-sided sticky sheet Ribbon, purple 1 Using the Umbrella Box die set, die cut four, six or eight side panels fr om gold card depending on what size box you want to make. Using the Bases and Tags die set, die cut the base from dark purple card and attach all of the side panels. Die cut all of the lid panels from dark purple car d and stick together. 2 Die cut the dome segments from dark purple card. To fix the dome pieces to the lid, hook the slot at the bottom of each piece over the tabs on the lid and then insert the tab at the top of the dome piece into the slits at the top of the lid. 3 To decorate the box with the paper piecing method as shown, die cut a detail piece and add to a

Make it Your Way “With this range, you can really put your own twist on your make, be it a simple box made from patterned paper or a paper pieced masterpiece” JODIE JOHNSON, DESIGNER

SKILL LEVEL

sticky sheet. Die cut the same piece in light purple, dark purple and pink and use the negative die cuts to fill in the empty spaces, then adhere the piec e to the box. To close the lid, feed ribbon through all the slots on the lid’s tabs and tie shut.

Take it further Whilst crafting the boxes is relatively simple for paper crafters, the paper piecing and how you do this will increase the complexity of your project.