Christmas is near – Santa is coming and we are all thinking about giving! We all know that Christmas is not just about presents, it’s about showing your dear ones how much you love and appreciate them! And what better way there is to show it, but to put some extra effort in preparing a nice gift boxes by your self. In this post I will give you all instructions you need to prepare your own, very special – gift box! (With a little help of Photoshop brushes – as usual )

So, to create your own gift box you will need:

1. Nice Christmas graphics in Hi Resolution, ready to print
2. Few minutes of your time to make an origami gift box out of them

1. Downloading and printing Christmas Graphics

I made four 8 1/4″ by 8 1/4″ (at 300dpi) Christmas designs for these Christmas gift boxes!

–>> PREVIEW Christmas backgrounds HERE

–>> DOWNLOAD Free Christmas backgrounds HERE (Zipped .jpg files)

Let me just mention, that I used Photoshop Christmas Photoshop brushes set to create these Christmas graphics!

(Buyers of this set get really cool gift too ))

Christmas Photoshop brushes set

Christmas set Photoshop Brushes (55+55)

* 55 HiRes Photoshop brushes (300 – 2428 pixels)
* 55 smaller Photoshop brushes (130-1400 pixels)
* Commercial license
* PC/Mac Compatible
* compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3 and CS4

Click here for preview:

And, now print these graphics out on a paper. (Letter format or bigger. Depends on the size of the box you’d like to get.)

Of course, I made some some gift boxes and here are a little photo-story about how it went.

First, I printed all four papers on one 16.5 × 23.4 paper and this time I used Tecco’s Digital Photo 330 Gallery Board paper (it’s a little bit thick, but that’s all I had at the time). Then I simply cut the paper in four pieces.

Then following the instructions on the YouTube video (link is below), I assembled the first box – it turned out really cool .

Now I needed one smaller box to nest it into the large one. To make that smaller one, I used one of the papers with graphics printed on it and I cut some 1/2″ of it from all four sides.

With this smaller piece of paper I made the same box shape, but this time it is a bit smaller so it can fit into the bigger one. So, the big one is a box lid and the small one is a box “container”.

Now, that looked cool! I was really impressed with the results! Then, I cut a little piece of a shiny red cloth. This cloth will save my Christmas tree glass ornament from breaking and it will make my gift look much cooler

Voila!

I hope you like what you see and I you’ll do the same for your own gifts!

Here is how to make origami paper boxes – YouTube video: Origami box

And here is a simple guide to a very similar origami box made by Sunni Bergeron: Origami GiftBox

That’s it! Hope you will enjoy your Christmas wrapping and have fun creating

S

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