Try This NEW Hexagon Roll Gift Box | Selection Box Ideas | Christmas Workshop 2026!

Hey everyone, Sam here and today I am kick-starting my Christmas series 2026. I'm going to be sharing some wonderful 3D projects with you. There's going to be lots of table favours, stocking stuffers and a selection box, which is what this one is here, although I may well do another one, I'm not sure yet. This doesn't have to be a selection box for anybody watching who's wondering even what that is, maybe you don't do that kind of thing. Selection boxes are a traditional thing in the UK and it's just filled with chocolate and we would get them, especially in the 80s and 90s, they were like big and full of big... Chocolates. Now they're much smaller, which is why I started making my own selection boxes so I could fill them with loads more chocolates. My best friend loves these. So this is going to be for her. It's going to work for birthdays as well. I think it looks like birthday cake. segments this could be a candle in the middle this is a box these are all gift boxes if you want to see how they all open how it works you have to watch the tutorial i also think if you turned it up this way ignore that that's closed i haven't filled mine yet so that will get sealed off but imagine that way you can make this longer it could be like a mallet of some kind it could be a lollipop but i do think it's got kind of a candle look this way you might see something else as well let me know in the comments but it's really straightforward to make it's just It's just a lot of the same box and then this one box in the middle. and then however you want to decorate it so let's get started decorate the boxes i'm using my christmas explosion paper pad as always if the products are available they'll be linked below for anybody interested and then i'm going to probably decorate with some of my ephemera and i'm thinking i might add a bow to this i'm not sure yet so first of all we're going to start off with the boxes to create the the main part of it because the middle part is completely optional some of you might leave that bit out but you want six pieces of seven and three quarters by nine Nine and three quarter. Along the seven and three-quarter side you're going to score at half an inch, two and a quarter, three and a quarter and five. Rotate so this side is at the bottom and you're going to score at one and five-eighths, seven and five-eighths and nine and a quarter. Rotate now so this half inch is back at the top and you want to score at five and seven-eighths and six and seven-eighths just down to the first It's just a little cut guide. So you want to repeat that six times. Fold and burnish all of your score lines. So you want your half inch tab on the left hand side. And first of all, we'll cut the base. So you're going to cut up all of the score lines here just to the first score line. And then this one here, you can just remove that completely. And then just take a little wedge off the side. Then we're going to work along the top here. So forget these two little score lines here that you would have done. You want to cut down all of these other ones past the first score line and down to the second. So again, pass the first down to the second. And then with this one here, you can remove all of that. And then again, just take a little wedge. So we've got our tab, put it all together. Now with this one here, where you've got your two little extra score lines there, just cut down those, just remove the score line on each side. And then from that cut, you're going to cut down. You're working just within this section. You can use a ruler if you'd rather draw a line. I'm just going to eyeball. Cross like so and then this one here I can just come up from this corner but if you'd rather draw a pencil line first so you make sure you get it straight but that's our closure and then still along this top part here if you fold down those two this one here we want to remove completely so you want to cut the score line away because that is going to go that's where that tucks in. and then these two here if you just kind of where you've got your half inch ignore that and then just cut about half of this section it's just little tabs it just helps keep the structure and stop anything kind of falling out really. Okay so you have something like that this one just cut a big chunk I'll probably come in Just to give you, you might cut a bit more in a minute, to be fair, about three quarters of the way, that side. And then you're, it's going to be from this side and you'll probably find you're going to cut a little bit off of the tops here as well. You might as well do it now. It's just a bit easier to do that. This one, just leave as it is because you need that full kind of size of it. But just again, remove any visible score lines that you might be able to see. So again, repeat all of that six times. Next, you can grab your glue and you're going to run it all down your half inch tab. Now, you can't lie these flat to obviously stick everything down. Usually with boxes and gift bags, you can lie it all flat. But this one, we can't. So just bring it over and then bring this one up and just kind of slide it down so the fold lines up. Now, you will be able to pinch it. Just make sure those score lines all meet up. If you pinch it a little bit, like I said, you can't go completely flat. But you can pinch it enough to not damage. So you'll see now we're starting to get that shape. Now we're going to start with the lid first because if you close that that will give you your shape and then it'll be easy to line up the base. So with this one here hold that back and when you close them can you see already there's quite an overhang here. Probably should have cut that one before it was flat but it's fine. If you bring it around hold it like I am so you've got your flap here. So this one I'm just going to cut a nice chunk into there again and then on this side again a nice chunk. So you just want to make sure they go that it goes in without hitting the back And then you can close this. Looking like it's a little bit too wide. You might find you just need to fold. It's just a smidge. Just gonna fold that in just a little bit more. Might have to just add an extra score line with this one because it's just a little bit off. I just bring that in here. 1 1⁸, it's that annoying. Just gonna bring it out. I'm just gonna add just a little score line just directly next to it. I think you're gonna need just a little bit extra on this one. And then you might just have to snip a little bit off, and that's annoying. I don't know why it's all the others are fine. It might be my maybe my cutting was just a little bit off. Hopefully it's going to be OK if you just said you might just have to. It's a smidge. It's like such a small amount. I see that closes better now. So just have a little play around. You might just have to. Yeah, you might just have to. Cut a little slither and just bring the score line in just a tiny bit. But otherwise, you've got your shape there, so you can see how that all works. And then this one, because you've already cut those bits off, should just about. I'm going to cut a little bit more, but you can see how easy it is. It's one of those just, I didn't want to give too many measurements with this because it can get too confusing. It really doesn't need to be. As long as that closes nicely. And then I'm just going to add my glue. And then again, that one. And then I'm going to cover all of this. Close that one down. Just kind of loosely at the minute. You just want to get all the glue on. Because now you will be able to line this up, you will have an overhang here, flip it over and just put it against the flat side here and you can just go in with your bone folder and just spread all that out and then just cut around this. It's so much easier to just cut around all your overhang and just repeat that now. If you want, you can, if you're going to miss the middle section out, your closures could close on the outside. Add a bit of hook and loop, it could close like that. But just repeat that with all of them and then you want to add mats and layers so you can see i've got My piece here on the back. So this is Two and a half by five and three quarter and then you just want a piece for the top and this is one and three eighths by two and three eighths and along the Two and three eighths side just mark in Three quarters of an inch from each side and then just cut from your bottom corner up to the marker there Or down from it and down to the other corner. Whatever works best. Now that would be a perfect mat layer for the top. Okay, so get all those stuck down. Okay, so once you've got all your boxes, you're literally going to stick them all together. This could be a roll-up box if you wanted to. You could just stick them all together with a hinge. I've done that before though, so this one I just wanted to have solid. But there are like roll-up style boxes. that you can um oh yeah make sure they're the right way up as well so all you need to do is grab your glue run it all down on your sides and stick it to the next one so all the closures will be facing inside you'll probably find they will start to hold themselves better as well If your lids do pop open just add another bit of cardstock over the top once it all kind of get pushed together and just cut around it just so it's thicker and then it will just hold itself. Next one just stick it like so and just keep doing that until they're all stuck together and you'll just have your hole in the middle. So that is now all stuck down. Now you could if you want you could display it this way, decorate this side then as well. Mine's still drying so just need to hold that corner together there. Um Or you could add some handles on it because the boxes, you know, you can look right through it. It's part of the, you know, the design. I think it's really fun. So if you want to stop there, you you can. But I'm going to add the tube in the middle, which I think is going to make it look a little bit like a candle. very You could then put like a faux flame or something on it. So If you want to do this bit, you are going to need a piece of six and a half by, I've just got the much. full length, A4, 12 would be fine. You could do 11 to be fair and just score then a one and three quarters at each end. So do one and three quarters and then flip it and do one and three quarters. You just won't have as much poking out the top. But along the six and a half side, you want to I'm going to score at every one inch. So one, two, three, four. five and six rotates that half inch tabs at the bottom and then you're going to score at one and three quarters and then if you just flip it because a4's in between kind of what is it 11 and five and 11 and three quarters and then just flip it and just do that again one and three quarters so yeah depending on what length just flip it and you you know it'd be fine yours just might be a little bit taller or a little bit shorter fold and burnish all the score lines Now this one is not going to have a closure, it's going to be sealed shut so they rip into this one but if you want to add a closure then you'd need to add a half an inch, you'd need your one and three quarters plus a half an inch. You could always add that on as a separate little tab but But I just, yeah. I just think I'm just going to close it because it's so thin it's just going to be easy to just have it completely closed off. This could also be decorative, you may not want to put anything in it you could just leave it empty. If you did want to do a candle, I do, I think it could look quite good. So you want to just snip up those two there. I didn't even tell you what to do there. Hopefully you just saw what I was doing and cut a little wedge off. And then you're just going to cut down each of these to the first, just to the first score line. And then just like the other ones, then you're going to run your glue all down your half inch tab. And then if you fold it over, I've folded over two and the half inch tab there, and then just fold that one over. Just fold it back that way as well. Give everything a good burnish. And you can at this point check if it's going to fit even with the base there so I'm just going to slide this in. I want it to be snug. Yeah it's going to fit fine. Do you see what I mean? It's giving me like a, imagine a flame on the top there. It can make a nice birthday gift as well. Okay I'm going to leave it in there actually while I put the box together because it kind of gives it a bit of structure. So you don't need all of these as long as they are, you just need one and I think that's going to be the one that's facing. I'm going to say Let's see where the join is actually on that one of the box, which is there as well. So I might have that joins away from me. So this one I'm going to stick down last. So all of these I can actually take that half off. You don't need all of that. And then they can all fold in. Add your glue and then just seal that one across the top. So it's nice and neat. And do the same for the bottom. So I might just push that right down. The bottom one doesn't really matter. So just pull one down and then again, just cut. About half of it off. I'm trying to make this as simple as possible in terms of, you know, we don't need all these measurements and then just close that one off. So just a little glue just to kind of get them going. Now I'm not going to be able to seal. I'm just going to add a little glue tab because I've got to fill mine yet and I haven't even got all the stuff. So I wanted to make this so I could see just how much room I kind of had. So I'm going to turn mine Line upside down, pull that all out, just go in with your ruler. Just make sure that's all secure. So for now, I'm just going to close that off, push it back in here. So that is how it's going to look. What else does that look like? I don't know what else it's giving me at the minute. Right, I'm going to have a little look at bows and decoration, and then I'll show you it at the end. So I'm going to use, this was from one of my old magazine kits, and I've just got some leftovers, but I really like that topper. And there were, hey, it's Christmas time. And what I thought is I could have, well, I'm actually going to have it on the corner like that. And I think like that. And I'm going to use ribbon and have a handle. Just think it would look quite sweet. Now, obviously the finish on here, I'm not going to add a bow. I will link my bow tutorials. I've got beautiful paper bows, big toppers that you could put on the top of that, which I think would look lovely. What I'm going to do is just tidy up the top of this. So if you cut yourself, this is just a piece of scrap from when I cut this. You should have it. This is one and three quarter wide. So you just want to make sure that the cardstock is one and three quarter wide. And I'm just going to. Cover. Again I'm not giving you all the measurements to cut the exact shape, just stick it on and cut around it. It's so much easier. And once that's dry you can then just snip around each side you just get a nice neat finish. At least that way you know it perfectly fits. Because these are handmade you know you might be a little bit out with one of your angles. At least this way you you know everything is gonna just look good. Now that is obviously my base for the minute but you could even make this, That's another idea. The exact. height of this piece you know it's like a hidden box because once they take that out obviously then they can get in all the individual boxes so there's a few ways to alter this i'm going to leave mine like that so it just looks fun as well that way but i'm going to use this ribbon here i've got my hot glue gun on so i'm going to have one handle on the side another handle and then i'm going to put bows over the top and then i'm going to add my topper on here and the sentiment And on there, I think. Okay, so there is the finished little selection gift bag, I guess. I've added little bows over the top there just to kind of tidy it up, hide the glue. You've got the nice sentiment there and then you've got your tube in the middle. You can have as an open box, but I'm closing mine off. And then you've got your six individual boxes there to fill with treats. At least now I know the size that I can get. You can get nice chocolate bar sizes in here. You know, you can get a nice bar along the outer edge and then stack some more on top there. I'm wondering whether I need to make them one each because the other selection boxes, obviously, to be fair, I think the amount you'll get in this plus I'm going to put curly whirlies and taller chocolates in there, maybe fill it with a lot of Lindor, you know, the balls, they can go in there as well. And for those of you that aren't going to use it as a selection box, this is going to hold, you know, smaller gifts, perfect for makeup. You know, little toys, and obviously depending on how you decorate it, you know, it can work for other occasions as well. I do think it could look good as a candle, a bit like a cake, cake segments, the candle in the middle. I think that's another nice idea as well. And I guess if you turned it upside down, make that a bit longer. It could be like Thor's, whatever that was called. I don't know what mallet. No, it wouldn't have been a mallet. Anyway, it could be an ice cream. I don't know. You know, once you start making these things, they start to evolve and turn into other things. So I hope you've enjoyed this first project. Of my Christmas series 2026 and the selection box, I may well do something else again. But any big projects or ones that are going to take up quite a bit of cardstock, I'm going to do early on and then kind of last minute makes into the weeks running up to Christmas, because I think by then most people will have everything done. Like I said, products I've used, if there's anything left, will be linked in the description box below this video. I will add this to the Christmas Series 2026 playlist that will be coming up here. This will obviously be the only project at the minute, but you might be watching this in a few weeks' time and there'll be a lot more added. And I'll also add it to my Christmas list of gift boxes and gift bags because you can see all my past ones there. There's many, many years' worth of tutorials and there's some fantastic makes. As always, thank you for watching. Give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and drop me a comment. Let me know what you think of this one. And make sure you subscribe as well so that way you don't miss out on any future videos. Take care and I'll see you in the next one.