How to Make a Gift Box with Your Cricut | Craft

Learn how to make DIY holiday gift boxes and lids with your Cricut! These cute Christmas house gift boxes are like presents all by themselves and have never been more fun for gifting.

Add in the fact that they open to contain gifts, and you have something that everyone on your holiday wish list will love. Fire up your Cricut Maker and make your own version of these Christmas Eve box ideas, along with my other holiday Cricut crafts! This post is sponsored by Cricut, however, all projects and opinions are my own.

Make Your Own Cricut Christmas Gift Boxes

Get in the holiday spirit with these festive gift boxes! Filled with Christmas cheer and sparkles, all your gift participants will fall in love with this DIY project. If you’re wanting to learn how to make some more things with your Cricut, then you have come to the right place!

Supplies Needed

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• Cricut Maker: You can see why I love my Maker here
• Cricut Paper and Poster Board: You can use a variety of finishes and colors here. Find poster board at your local craft or dollar stores.
• Paper Mache House Boxes: I purchased a nested set of three boxes. You can find these at most craft stores!
• Cricut Adhesive Foil: Vinyl also works
• Cricut Metallic Iron-on: Any color, but I chose dark red for extra Christmas love.
• White Paint: Use acrylic for these holiday gift houses.
• Cricut Heavy Chipboard
• Cricut Felt
• Decoupage: You can find this online or at local craft stores next, or with Mod Podge. This product seals the glitter on!
• Cricut EasyPress 2
• Cricut Iron-On Protective Sheet (or parchment paper)
• Glitter: I used red and white, but you can use any shades that are Christmas colors.
• Adhesive: You can use any that you love.
• Bottlebrush Trees: Find these at your local craft store.
• Bottlebrush Wreaths
• Snow Paint: This can be found online or at most local craft stores.
• Paintbrushes
• Pallet Knife
• Scissors
• Cricut TrueControl Knife
• Twine
• Cricut Cut File

Note: I will note that some of these items are definitely optional. You decide how you would like your house to look, then run with it! There are so many options for this DIY gift box for Christmas.

How to Make a Gift Box Video Tutorial

You can actually see just how to make the gift box in the video below.

Can’t watch the video or missed some of the steps? Try the step-by-step instructions below.

How to Make a Gift Box with Your Cricut

This craft to do at home is so much fun! Make these boxes with your kids and family, and enjoy the holidays.

Step One – Paint the Boxes

Start by painting your paper mache boxes with white paint. Just add one coat and allow it to dry. It doesn’t have to be perfect, as we are covering most of it up. This is just so any areas that do show through look white.

Step Two – Add Glitter

Once dry, we are going to add a glitter coating. I actually mixed a bunch of different sizes of white and a little silver glitter to get a really interesting look.

Step Three – Decoupage and Glitter

Paint on the decoupage, sprinkle on the glitter, and remove any excess. Add glitter to all four sides of the houses and the four sides of the roof. Leave the top of the roof with no glitter and the lip on the bottom of the house portion without glitter as well. Set aside and allow to dry. Hate shedding glitter? Add a second thick coat of decoupage over the glitter after the first one dries. Then allow that to dry as well.

Step Four – Apply the Snow (Optional)

I used a pallet knife to apply a thick snow paint to the lip. This adds a look of winter to the piece but is optional. You could glitter this surface instead. This will need to dry for several hours.

Step Five – Cut the Designs

While your pieces dry, you can cut all of your embellishments with your Cricut machine. Learning how to make a gift box is easy when you have the Cricut Maker to help you!

Step Six – Cut Tags

I cut the doors and gift tags from heavy chipboard using the knife blade. You can see tips and tricks for using your knife blade by clicking here.

Step Seven – Add More glitter

Cover the front and side of the door with decoupage and cover in red glitter. Set aside to dry.

I also added red glitter to the chimney of each house in the same manner.

Step Eight – Make Chipboard Christmas Gift Tags with the Cricut Maker

While those pieces dry, you can make your gift tags. Cut and weed your iron-on material. Then set your EasyPress 2 to the recommended settings for wood.

Step Nine – Press the Tags

Be sure to cover the chipboard with the iron-on protective sheet or parchment paper while pressing. Press at the recommended temperature for the recommended amount of time.

Step Ten – Allow to Cool

You will then need to allow these to cool before peeling back your carrier sheet.

Then your cute chipboard gift tags are ready for your gift boxes.

Step Eleven – Make Felt Bows

You can also make your bows while your pieces are drying. The bows are cut from felt using the rotary blade on the Cricut Maker. I always change my blade to the rotary blade when cutting felt. Each bow will have three pieces.

Fold the first piece with the ends to the center and glue to secure.

Step Twelve – Wrap the Bows

Wrap a small piece around the center.

Fold the ends to the back and secure them with more glue.

Step Thirteen – Glue

Then add glue to the center of your third piece.

Secure the bow into place. We are well on our way to making a gift box!

Step Fourteen – Make the Windows

You can also prep your window pieces while the houses dry. You will have quite a pile of cut pieces for this project. The window frames, inner windows, and shutters. I actually used the scoring wheel to add lines to the shutters for additional detail. If using a material that asks for the double scoring wheel, be sure to use the single instead.

Step Fifteen – Assemble Windows

Add the frame to the inner window piece with some adhesive. Then in each large square window, add two candles out of adhesive foil or vinyl. The knife makes it a bit easier to lift and place the small candles. The round windows only get put together. Then there are three small windows for the doors that also do not get candles. You will have piles that look like the ones below when finished. Remember that the windows for the large and medium houses are the same size. The shutters, however, are different for each house.

Once everything is dry, start adding the windows over the holes and the shutters on the sides. Use any adhesive you like for this. Repeat for each window. The long and fat shutters are for the largest house. The long and skinny ones are for the medium. And finally, the short and fat ones are for the smallest house.

Step Sixteen – Glue the Door

You can also glue the window to the door and the door to the house.

Step Seventeen – Assemble Roof

For the roof portion, the round windows go in both eves. Then there are scalloped strips that go on the roof like shingles. I did a red, two white, and red pattern, but you can do whatever you like. Secure these with any adhesive and just trim to size with scissors as you cover the entire roof.

You can also add bottlebrush trees and wreaths to the houses if you wish. They are not required for a tutorial on how to make a gift box, but they do make them super cute!

The wreaths were placed in the middle of the upper windows on the medium and large houses.

Step Eighteen – Allow to Dry

Once you finish the roof scallops, there will be areas that are not perfect. You can add some more snow paint to these areas if you wish. I put it along the eves and seams. Allow it to dry.

Step Nineteen – Add Gift Tag

Then you can tie on a gift tag with some twine.

And pop the bow on the very top with some adhesive. You just learned how to make a gift box with your Cricut!

Just add in your gift and write on the back of the gift tag your to and from.

I know that your gift recipient will love this gift box just as much as the gift inside.

After all, who wouldn’t love this cute house?

And all of that glitter!! WOW!

So, grab your Cricut Maker and follow these instructions for how to make a gift box.

You are going to love the results! You might need to make several for all of your gift-giving needs. This DIY craft project also shows the versatility of the Cricut Maker. From the knife blade on thick chipboard to scoring the shutters to cutting fabrics like felt, this machine can do it all!

After all, once they see this DIY gift box for Christmas, everyone will want one!

Pick up your supplies and follow along with how to make a gift box with your Cricut. You will be so glad you did!

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut; however, the opinions are all mine.

How to Use

You can do so much with these DIY gift boxes with lids. For Christmas, decorate the house with these sparkling boxes and turn on some battery-powered tea lights to light up the scene.

Another great idea would be to surprise your loved ones with their gifts from Santa!

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Want to print the instructions for these Christmas gifting boxes? You can use the card below!