boxes

[sstehman]

How in the world did you figure this one out. Pretty darn good.

[alliellis]

Thanks for all the time you spent on this. I have downloaded it and it works great.

[gj1]

Thanks for testing it, too...yes, it works nicely, but the flower or ribbon top pieces could be positioned just a bit better. I might work on that. To finally make it work, if you look on page two...I had to make a hexagon and then lay in rectangles to find the size to union to the main box for the top, then the tricky part is those flowers/ribbons...it is good, but they need to be right in the center at the correct angle and some are not exact...but close enough to work. I did not do well in any math courses in school. This type of work or the robot boxes would be excellent to help kids in learning.

[cherylk]

I love this box. Thanks for posting it!

Grins!!

[ptpulley]

Thanks for testing it, too...yes, it works nicely, but the flower or ribbon top pieces could be positioned just a bit better. I might work on that. To finally make it work, if you look on page two...I had to make a hexagon and then lay in rectangles to find the size to union to the main box for the top, then the tricky part is those flowers/ribbons...it is good, but they need to be right in the center at the correct angle and some are not exact...but close enough to work. I did not do well in any math courses in school. This type of work or the robot boxes would be excellent to help kids in learning.

Thanks for posting this. I can see lots of fun things coming from this too! I saw a picture of a box kind of like this once, but it made a snowflake.

[ptpulley]

I attempted to make a cut file for the snowflake box I saw on Extreme Cards. I got it pretty close. The bottom folds in the same way the top does, but without the snowflake points sticking out. Sorry for the poor quality photo-- not sure what happened there.

[ptpulley]

I also played around with your little box file, gj1 (hope you don't mind!). I changed the angle of the loops on the top of the box just a bit. In the picture, you can see there was a tiny hole in the top of the box, but I fixed the file so it won't do that.

I love the way your box goes together-- so nice and clean. But for people like me, who have just the small Cricut, it only makes a tiny, tiny box. It would probably also work to put those loops on the snowflake box I posted above too. It's not as nice a construction, but it would make a bigger box. I haven't tried it yet-- maybe I will later.

Another lousy photo. I guess that's what happens when I stay up too late.

[gj1]

AWESOME AWESOME, I can't wait to cut them both!!! Thank you so much for sharing them. Oh, I am excited to try the snowflake!!! We could make a challenge to see how many 'things' we could get to fit together for a top...lol.

Oops...you already did a bunch...I was just looking at all the wonderful files you have share and your animal boxes and the flower one...you already accomplished the challenge!

[ptpulley]

Yeah, my personal 'challenge'! (Can you say compulsive?) It's what helps me learn though. I love trying to figure these things out.

I also did a little box with a kitten (kind of like the dog one). It's cute, but I forgot to take a picture of it and I gave it away already.

[gj1]

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