{"id":259,"date":"2018-11-04T14:18:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T14:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverknife.co.uk\/my10k\/?p=259"},"modified":"2021-03-04T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T10:33:28","slug":"printed-boxes-and-popcorn-boxes-with-free-downloadable-templates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverknife.co.uk\/my10k\/2018\/11\/04\/printed-boxes-and-popcorn-boxes-with-free-downloadable-templates\/","title":{"rendered":"Printed Boxes and Popcorn Boxes (with free downloadable templates)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a “Rerun” post from the original blog – I’ll be putting these up here and there alongside the new posts but with their original date of publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last two weeks have been a bit of a marathon, so this post is just a quick one: Printed card boxes. There’s something oddly exciting to me about the fact that with just a printer, paper or card and glue you can turn an idea into a real, physical object. I’m a decent designer but no kind of artist – I can’t draw beyond very basic sketches with plenty of guidelines and measurements – and I think anything that lets me turn an image in my head into a real thing I find very satisfying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, I wanted a nice box in which to ship my Leatherman Belt Pouches<\/a>. I experimented with origami boxes but a quick rough prototype found they were a bit clumsy and I couldn’t make one big enough out of a single sheet of A4 – they would also crush too easily in the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead, I quickly sketched up a box shape in Inkscape and printed it on 160gsm card (the thickest my laser printer will handle).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven’t found anything better to stick paper and card without wrinkling than good old Pritt stick (or in this case Wilko’s knockoff version) – although I may be experimenting with Japanese rice paste glue for a future project, which is supposed to be even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the sides are double card with glue in between it makes a surprisingly strong little box. The printing goes a little odd and even seems to rub off in places; I think this is the LED printing process from my Brother “laser” printer which doesn’t seem to bond the toner to the paper as strongly. For this purpose I quite like the effect though, it adds a bit of texture, almost like weathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made a lid by scaling up the design about 3% (another thing designing in Inkscape makes really easy) and just to see what it looked like I stuck one of my photos on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “weathering” is more pronounced on the edges and the laser printer isn’t a patch on an inkjet for reproducing photos, but I really like this result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The finished shipping box with my logo and colours – I’m really happy with it! I’ve tried coating it with spray lacquer but oddly it only coats properly on areas that have a lot of toner (you can see the shine on the blue areas) and although it’s a neat effect not really worth the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you’d like to make your own you can download the templates here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Printable Box SVG<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Printable Box Lid SVG<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Printable Box PDF<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Printable Box Lid PDF<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’ve used a similar process to make these popcorn boxes for when my family and little nieces and nephew come over for movie sessions. They’re only single layer but quite rigid – at least they’ve survived an excited four-year-old high on caramel popcorn and cartoon elephant songs \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can download the templates for those here. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Popcorn Box SVG<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Popcorn Box PDF<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Popcorn Box Junior SVG<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Popcorn Box Junior PDF<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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