How to Make an Explosion Stacking Tower Gift Box – Free Templates and Tutorial
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I can’t wait to share this papercraft tutorial with you today for making an explosion gift box. Creating a handmade gift always shows your recipient how much you care. And around here, we do things in vibrant colors, so I made the explosion gift box into a stacking rainbow of color!
The explosion gift box can be made easily using a cutting machine or just a pair of scissors. The templates for this gift box are my free gift to you and are linked below. Both PDF printables and SVG cut files are included.
Love rainbows like me? Then you’ll also enjoy making these colorful Unicorn Rainbow Paper Flowers.
Customize With Personalized Inserts in The Pockets
This sweet craft includes plenty of “surprise” pockets for inserting photos, notes, or stickers as well as the little gift boxes for adding other small items. To make your gift box unique to you, choose a variety of your favorite cardstock colors or scrapbooking paper to really let your style pop.
Supplies
Here are the supplies I used to create these stacking colorful paper gift boxes.
- Scissors or cutting machine. Cricut Maker makes this job much easier. Thinking of getting a Cricut but not sure which one is best for your needs? I can help with that here.
- Glue gun
- Scoring stylus or scoring wheel. (If you are not using a cutting machine, I recommend this scoring board option)
- Ribbon or baker’s twine
- Tape
- Explosion gift box template with decorative pieces here: FREE inside the Craft Vault
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Steps for Making the Explosion Gift Box: Video Tutorial
Watch the full video tutorial below to see how to create the explosion gift box step by step.
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I didn’t see where you told how many pieces of cardstock you need for this. Guess I’ll have to upload to cricket and count the pages?
That’s going to depend if you use my size of box or resize. I used 12 x 12 cardstock and about 17 sheets.
Thank you for the tutorial!
You mentioned in the video about a free template included in the files for the flower on the top, but when looking at the files, I do not see where the files is located. The link provided to flowers takes me to Etsy, and there is a charge for the flower template. Am I looking in the wrong place for the free file? Thank you!
Free flower templates can be found inside our Craft Vault. While we do have additional paid flower designs and files available on Etsy and our website, we recommend checking the Craft Vault for free options available to our crafting community!
https://members.abbikirstencollections.com/category/small-paper-flowers?sortBy=recent&free=on&page=1
Sorry, One more question. Towards the end of the video, you show the cut outs for the sentiments to be put into. You mentioned that there are score lines, however, I don’t see score lines on the ones included, nor do I see the little side tabs like yours that are folded in and glued. The ones included seem to be just the same size as the box fold outs and not sure how they would work with this design. Thank you
The files for this project can be found here:
https://members.abbikirstencollections.com/crafts/explosion-stacking-gift-box-design-128
For Box 1 and Box 2, please use the file labeled “Pockets for Box 1.pdf” That file contains the pieces needed for those sections of the design.