Santa's Gift Treat Box | 4 Compartments in 1| Christmas Workshop 2026

Hey everyone, it's Sam here and today I'm going to show you how to make this cute gift box. Now you could use this as a storage piece on your desk, this could be a nice jewellery box or it could be a selection box, Christmas box, which is what I'm doing today. I think I'm going to add a gift card inside this and then fill it with treats. So the nice thing about this is you've got a faux drawer, so this isn't a real drawer. This one is, so you just pull that and you've got a very roomy drawer. After all, you've also got two gift boxes either side and then. On the top now the hook and loop is optional. I think if you have this on your desk and you wouldn't need the hook and loop but just under each one here I've got hook and loop just to hold it in and you've got another big area there and I think that's where I'm going to have the gift card and then just fill everything else with sweets. So a few ways to use this and again I think it's going to work all year round. Imagine it decorated with like birthday papers, big number of their birthday on the top, Valentine's gift box. I think it's definitely something you can use time and time again. So let's get started and I'll show you how to make it. So it's all deconstructed like with most of my boxes, I just think they're easy that way. So you want, first we'll do the side boxes, so you want two pieces of ten and a half by seven and a half. Along the ten and a half side you're going to score at one, five, six and ten. Rotate so that half inch is at the bottom and then you're going to score at one, six and seven. You want to do that twice, like I said, that's for your boxes, just maybe writing pencil on there so you know what each piece is because you're going to be covering them with your mats and layers. Then for the bottom and the side or the back, this is a piece of ten and a quarter by seven. Along the long side, you're going to score at one and five. So you could just put base on that one. This is going to be for like the top dish section. So this is an open area to just pop whatever you want in. Underneath will be the drawer. So this is a piece of eight and three quarter by eight and a quarter. And you just want to score it two inches on all four sides. So just rotate it around and just score at two inches. We'll stop there for the minute. Fold and burnish all your score lines and we'll start putting the boxes together. Okay, so first you want your box piece, that's why I said write your pencil marks on, so you'll know what bit I'm using each time. You want the half inch tab, so in landscape orientation, half inch tab, have it on the right hand side. You're going to cut up the score lines along the bottom here, just to the first score line, and then just remove that one, and then you can cut a little wedge off, like so. Come along this side, and you're going to cut down this one here, and you'll see you've got your other score line there, but just free that up, and then remove all of that, and then you can cut another little wedge, like so. and then we'll work along this side so now you're going to cut down past the first score line and down to the second again on all those score lines okay and then back in this orientation half inch tabs on the right this one here this whole section we're going to remove okay so i'm just going to fold that one down just remove the score line i just want to make this nice and neat so and then these two little squares just take a little bit off from below the score line they're just your Notice your tabs that fold in. Then you want to add your glue to your half inch tab. Fold that down and then fold that one over again. And then with the base, if you, which one did I do on that one? That's on the outside. So with the base, if you fold this one down first, you can see I've got my tab at the top there. That one's down first. Glue to either tabs. You might want to cut a little bit off the sides there. I forgot to do that. Sometimes it's okay, but it just means you don't get anything. Yeah, see, this is why I do it. You see, we've got this like bit here. By cutting a little bit off each side, I'm just going to open them again. If you've done, which you probably will have similar to me, just remove, just cut a little angle and again. It's easy to do, even if you forgot at this stage, just fold them in with my glue. So, and open it up and you can just go in there with your bone folder and just secure that all down. And then when you go to close it, you'll probably find it all might go in. Sometimes they do, but usually you get a little bit. It buckles a little bit. You can see that it's just pushing it away. Just take the tiniest little sliver. We want these boxes to lock closed. If yours is popping open, you could close it that way, put some hook and loop, or just put another piece of card, fresh piece over the top, and then cut again into it. I'm also just going to take a little bit off of here, just that outer edge. It's usually just the score line. You can usually see what you need to remove, just the smallest amounts. You can always go back and cut more away, but that should now, yeah, it stays closed, it's not popping open. You should have two now, so your opening will be on the inside. They're going to be either side like this. Then you want to take your tray piece, and along the eight and the quarter, so the slightly shorter side, you're just going to cut up to both score lines, and then flip it and do the same on the other side, and then just take a little wedge off of the inside sections, This is an open tray, an open box, let's say. I'm not going to take it off of these edges here, just off of the inner sections. You're then going to add your glue to each one and bring it around and you want to line up your flat edge here to the top so everything is nice and neat. You've got nice right angles there. I'm going to use the construction glue for this because it's going to be above the box and it's kind of open. I really want it to hold its shape. They're slightly bigger tabs. I use the quick grab glue for like smaller areas but these are quite big so I'm going to just use that. It takes a little bit longer to dry but it dries like cement so it's great for 3D projects. This is only a 220-230 GSM cardstock so it's obviously not very strong but by the time you add your mats and layers, use construction glue, they're going to be stuck you know to either sides of this. It will all start to really strengthen. Okay so what's What's going to happen next is this is all going to stick in here. But this is going to stick to the top of these boxes. I'm just going to run my glue all down that side. I'm going to make sure you're doing it on the longer side. So this is your four and three quarter side. And then I've got my box. I open this up just so you can see that's how it's opening. This is going to stick flush with the back of it. And then if you glue on this side and just open this up so you can see this is now going to go. On this side here. So you should now have something like this. I'm just going to close that up now that we know. Then this is going to stick into this bottom section here and also on the side. This is going to be the hinge for the lid. That's why you want this box tray flush with the top because this lid, when it comes down, is going to obviously act as the closure for that. So I've just added the glue to the bottom of the boxes there and then You just want to make sure you've got the same overhang. It's all decorative, but it's about just over a quarter of an inch on each side, a little bit shorter on the front, but just push it right into that corner. In fact, now that's in, you know, once you've got it up to that corner, you can then add your glue all on the backs of the boxes, on the back of the tray. And this is what's going to really strengthen. So, like I said, don't worry about the weight of your card. because you're sticking a lot of it to each other and then just bring that up and then fold that over you want everything to be snug down on that side just to spread everything out you can open them up and then go in the ruler again make sure secure okay so that is all Drying nicely it's starting to come together really well. Just realise you need two of that size because we're making another one now which is going to be the drawer. So again it's that eight and a quarter by eight and three quarters. You're just going to score at two inches on all four sides and you want to stick it together exactly the same way. Fold and burnish. And one thing you can do, just do a little check. It should all be fine. But if you have, maybe yours might be just a little bit lower there. You don't want this to obviously not slide in. So what you can do at this point is do a test. So just fold up the sides and slide it in. And if you've got any resistance or it's not wanting to sit flush nicely, then trim a little bit off. Okay. So you've got a chance, you know, so you've got a chance, but you want it to feel like a draw. You want there to be a little bit of resistance because, again, you want it to all hold in place. OK, so you can see how it's all looking so far. And I've also gone ahead and added mats and layers, which I'm going to give you the measurements for now. So you're going to want two pieces of three quarters by four and three quarter the tops and then two pieces of. three and three quarter by three quarters for the fronts there. Then for the two sides here, these are four and three quarter by three and three quarter. I've got one on the back here, this is six and three quarters by three and three quarters. And then for the inside, so you've got, let's take this one out, so I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven pieces of one and three quarter by four, and then One, two, three, four pieces of one and three quarter by four and a half and then two pieces of four by four and a half for the base for the bottom there. I'm going to punch a hole and I think just add some ribbon with a knot on the back, just a little looped one. You could make a little cardstock handle if you wanted to. You could add, you know, two holes and have a little rope handle. Just put two knots at the back. Whatever you fancy, I'm going to have a little play around and I'll show you that. Then to add the lid, so I've just got this piece here, so you can see, it's starting to look like a fireplace. I know it is, I don't know, you know what I mean? Like if you took that one out, I don't know, things just evolve, don't they? This is seven by five and a quarter. You'll then want to put mats and layers on both sides. You might want to stamp a sentiment, which I'm probably going to do on the top one, something festive. You might want to have a message inside when they lift it up. If you were doing a jewellery box, you could have some mirrored card in here. So this is a mirror when they open it. If you don't like the join there also as well, just cut two pieces and sandwich that between or have it on the outside and have it as a feature to do different cardstock for that bit and this bit. I think I'm going to do maybe different cardstock on that strip and do that bit a bit different, make a feature of it. If I do I'll give you the measurements for that in a minute but stick that down add your mattes and layers and I'm going to do the closure. Okay nearly finished so I've decorated the top which I think looks really sweet it's just again using the same ephemera that was in the magazine kit I did and I used that on the previous tutorial. Inside we've got the elf eat drink and be merry because it's going to be filled with sweets and then what I thought I'm going to do for the front is I'm going to add a little piece of velvet because I've got the darker red because I've run out. Now you could make this look like a faux draw when it's closed and when they open it obviously they can just see inside so I may do two but I'm definitely obviously going to stick it down there let's just pop that there for the minute. So this is three quarters by two and three quarters if in fact I'm going to trim that a bit because I do think it's a little bit too long. I am going to just I'm going to tidy up the edges. I've got my hot glue gun on. Like I said, this could be cardstock, doesn't have to be ribbon. It could just be a little pull tab. It could be a pull little loop. There's a few ways to do your closures, but just seal off the sides so that they don't break and to come up like that. That's how it's going to look. So I just get that measurement there. Let's do one inch. So I'm going to keep the ruler. I've got to remember to do a little measure. So I'm going to put my ruler like that. A little bead of glue under that edge up an inch as good as and in the middle of that draw. Whilst that's drying I cut the ends off of a brad. I've got these little star ones. I thought they would be quite cute as a little bit of hardware, extra decoration. Oh gosh that was lucky. Use my tweezers to grip nicely the ribbon there. If you get any glue strings just blast it with your heat tool and it just they just evaporate. And then with this one just pop I think I'm going to do two. I really like that. So what did I say? Two, two and three quarter. I'm just going to do that again. Okay, last little bit. So there is how it looks at the front. I think it looks very cute. Now I'm thinking if you are maybe posting this or just trying, you know, you need to give it to someone, you might not like that that just sits like that. I think if you're keeping it as a storage piece, jewelry box, something like that on your craft desk, then you don't need the hook and loop. But I think for the purposes of this being a gift box, I'm going to add hook and loop to here. So about a foot out. We've got three quarters of the way down, that way you won't see it straight away and then drop that down. It's just then going to hold your treats and things that you're going to have on that top section. It might sit a gift card in there and then fill it with treats. So it's like the main gift with some extras, you know. It's always tough getting the initial pick and loop off once you've, you know, first stuck them down. After that, it's much easier. So just be careful when you take them off. You can always colour them in as well. I'm not too bothered. Like I said, these are quick gift boxes. They're going to get enjoyed and ripped up, thrown away. I know people hate it when I say that, but it's the truth. Some people do keep them and that's fine. But I don't I think, you know, people can see that they're there for a reason. But if you did want to disguise them, you can colour them before you stick them down. But that definitely now is going to hold. you know whatever's in there and with these kind of boxes when there's open areas i would put the i would well i would stick the sweets in with a little bit of with like a glue dot or something as well so it holds it in place but there you have it isn't it cute so we've got our real drawer at the bottom and then we've got our faux drawer at the top plus we've got our other gift boxes either side how fun Right up my street, I love an unusual packaging. You could, if you want, have a little handle, a little direction on there. If you're worried they might forget. If you're with the person when they're opening it and they don't see that bit, then you can tell them. But maybe if you're not seeing them, maybe just dropping the text and just saying, did you open the boxes on the side? Because they could think it's just part of the structure. But I'm very pleased with this. I think it's great. So thank you, as always, for watching today. Hope you've enjoyed this tutorial. As always, any of the products that I've used, if they're available, will be linked in the description box below. Drop me a comment if you've enjoyed today. Let me know. Hit the thumbs up as well because that helps out the channel. And make sure you subscribe so you don't miss out on future videos. Take care and I'll see you in the next one.