Easy Peasy Box without a board

Never thought I'd be doing a tut so soon but here goes.

Not everybody has a scoreboard, in fact I only bought one last year and managed to make do for years without it. Here's how I used to make boxes.

To make a C5 box ( to fit an A4 card folded in half) you need two sheets of A4 card.

Trim 1cm from the long side and 3cm from the narrow side of both sheets of card.

Then take one of the sheets and trim another 1-2mm from the top and the side, this makes the bottom of the box.

To make an A6box ( that's normal invitation size) cut an A4 sheet of card in half and trim 2cm from the narrow side of both sheets. Than as before trim 1-2 mm off the top and side of one of the sheets.

You need an old cutting mat, two rulers some double sided tape and some foam pads.

Start off by putting dst on one ruler and stick it to

the bottom of the cutting mat...make sure it's straight.

Then decide how deep you want your box to be....2 cm. is usually ok for a normal card...and stick a piece of foam pad at the very edges of the mat at each side.

Now stick your second ruler to the foam pads....make sure it's dead straight.

You can now slide your card under the rulerand butt it against the bottom ruler.

Using an embossing tool you can then emboss your score lines on all four sides of your card.

Fold along your score lines and then cut along the blue lines...

don't know how clear it is in the photo...

You end up with this....

all you have to do now is put a bit of glue on the bit that's folded in and either press the outside edge onto it or use a paper clip until it sets.

I've discovered that Anita's glue is the best although I used to use dst.