I saw this darling little box on Wendy Wexler's blog and had to try it! Start with a 6" x 6" piece of DSP or cardstock.
Score at 2" and 4"...
Turn paper 1/4 turn and score again at 2" and 4"...
Go ahead and crease those folds as "valley" folds...
Now you will need a pencil and ruler. On the "wrong" side of the paper, mark small Xs where your four corners intersect...
Then, on 2 opposite sides you will make a pencil mark at 3"...
Set pencil aside. Using ruler and stylus, (you can use your Simply Scored tool for this, but diagonals are tricky. It was faster for me to show it this way) you are going to score the 4 corners diagonally. Lay your ruler from corner to corner as shown...
now score from the corner to the X mark DO NOT score all the way through the center!! Only score the corners to the X marks. Do this on all 4 corners. ...
Next, fold those four corners into "mountain" folds...
This is what it should look like at this point....
Next you will make score lines on those 2 sides with pencil marks. You need to line up your ruler on the X and that 3" pencil mark you made earlier...
In that SAME area, score from the other X to the pencil mark. You will have scored a V-shape from the X marks to the pencil mark. Make "mountain" fold out of these...
Press your paper down gently so that the original "valley folds" give way and your paper looks like this...
Now you can gently bring the sides towards each other. The sides look like Ws...
Continue to bring everything to the center. It will begin to "go together". Just let the flaps go where they tend to want to go...
You may need to try "right flap over left flap" or vice versa to get it to go together without being crooked...
Take the 2" x 4" piece of coordinating cardstock and attach it to the back, flat part of triangle...
This shows how the the front flap will go...
Decorate the front flap...
A piece of velcro makes a nice way to finish it, so that it can be opened and shut repeatedly...
Enjoy!
