Other Mother Box

Step 8 Begin Cutting the Paper to Cover the Box

For this step you will need your box pieces affixed to their covering paper sheets, ruler and craft knife.

Begin by folding up the paper along the long edge of the box (Photo 1). Use your fingers to crease the paper so that you will be able to see both the top of the box and where the box corners are located through their impression in the paper (Photo 2). Let those crease lines be the guide for your ruler as you cut a straight line, perpendicular to the horizontal crease along the right edge to the outer edge of the paper, but not to the edge of the box (Photo 3). You're leaving that uncut so that you can make flaps. The flaps make for a seamless covering of the box without any pesky gaps at the corners. To make the flaps, align the ruler with the horizontal crease and cut to the right about 0.5". Then align the ruler with the angle of the box corner and complete a cut to the horizontal cut (Photo 4). Your cut should look like the profile of a bird or a backwards 1. Mirror these cuts on the other side and your project should look like Photo 5.