Instructions: Pyramid box 2

Because of the high demand for Gitti's pyramid boxes, today we'll show you how you can easily make another variant yourself, with a corner window.

• 2x design paper or house paper of your choice
• Slightly thicker paper (for a stencil)
• Double-sided tape

• Drawing triangle with cutting edge
• Cutter knife
• Pencil
• eraser
• ruler
• Bone folder /folding pen
• Optional: paper cutter with folding board
• Scissors

Cut out a stencil for the basic shape of the pyramid box.

To do this, use slightly thicker paper than usual printer paper. Now draw a triangle on it.

To do this, draw a line 10 cm long. Measure 18 cm in height from the middle of the line and mark this point with a pencil. Now you can connect the ends of the 10 cm long line to the previously marked point.

You now have a triangle. Under this triangle, draw a bottom flap with a height of 5 cm. Draw a score line on the edge where the bottom flap and triangle meet. Now cut out the entire stencil.

Now take a piece of design paper and place it in front of you.

Place the template on the bottom left corner, 1.5 cm from the left edge and 0.5 cm from the bottom edge. Trace the edges of the template with a thin pencil. Now place the template with the long edge of the triangle on the right of the long drawn edge and trace the template again here.

Repeat this step two more times until you have four triangles.

Draw a 1 cm wide adhesive tab on the left of the first triangle. Cut out the shape along the outer guidelines drawn and taper the adhesive tab slightly.

The remaining lines drawn within the shape are the fold lines of the box.

Trace these and the fold lines along the bottom flaps of each triangle with a bone folder/folding pin or a paper cutter with a folding board .

Now erase the guide lines you drew for the fold lines and fold the basic shape once along the fold lines.

Next you have to cut out the window of the box.

Take the cut out part of the basic shape and place it straight in front of you with the second triangle from the left. From the bottom line of the triangle (the fold line of the bottom flap), at a height of 3 cm, draw a line with a length of 5 cm from the right fold line.

From the right end of the 5 cm long lines, go up 9.5 cm along the fold line and mark this point with a pencil.

Now you can connect the left end of the 5 cm long line to the previously marked point.

Do the same on the other side of the fold lines. Here too, draw a line 5 cm long at a height of 3 cm from the fold line. Also connect the end of the line to the marked point on the fold line. You have now drawn the window of the box.

You can now cut this out with a cutter knife .

Now let's move on to the inner part of the window of the box. Cut this out from another piece of design paper. To do this, first draw a square measuring 5 cm x 5 cm.

Draw 1 cm wide adhesive tabs on the left and bottom.

Now draw a triangle on the top and right edge.

Go up again from the middle 9.5 cm and mark these places. Then draw lines from the respective corners of the square to the marked points.

You also draw a 1 cm wide adhesive tab on each of these lines. Leave out the adhesive tab on the right side of the upper triangle.

Cut out the inside of the window along the outer lines, tapering the adhesive tabs. All other lines result in the fold lines, which you have to trace with a folder/folding pen or paper cutter with a folding board.

Remove the drawn guide lines again with an eraser.

Now first glue the inside part of the window together. To do this, apply tape to the right tab of the top triangle. Glue these tabs to the other triangle where the tab is missing. Make sure to attach the tab on the outside so that it ends up not being visible through the window.

Use the additional adhesive tabs to glue the inner part to the back of the window of the basic shape. Once you have glued the inner part on, you can glue the whole box together.

Fold the box along the fold lines and glue it shut with the adhesive tab. For the floor, you can now fold in the floor flaps one after the other, finally tucking the last flap under the first flap. This means the box can be easily opened again. However, you can also glue the floor shut.

The box is now finished. You can now decorate and fill these individually according to your wishes.

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