After watching multiple box-making tutorials on YouTube I settled on a very simple hinged box. The girl who showed how to make it made it lipstick-sized. I thought I could do the same thing with different sized paper to get a larger box. It turns out, I could! It makes me very happy when one of "my projects" works out.
How I did it:
Using a Fiskars cutter (which actually drives me crazy since it is supposed to cute 12 by 12 paper but really only cuts 11 3/4...so aggravating) I cut one inch off the edge of the card stock which is attached to the binding so I had a piece of card stock that was 11 by 12. I cut it the long way so I had three pieces which were 11 by 4 inches.
Using an EK Tools scoring board since my Martha Steward score board is at home, I scored both the long edges of each piece at 1 inch. I turned to the short side and scored one inch from each end...switching ends after the first scoring. At that point I then scored at 5 inches and then at 6 inches.
After burnishing on each of the score lines, I folded on each line. At this point I was ready to cut. On the long side I cut on each of the short score lines to the first long score line, making four little one-inch "boxes". On the inner side of the two outer boxes/tabs, I cut a little wedge of paper out.
You can see where the one-inch "hinge" is in the middle of the paper. When folded and glued, it makes a really nifty box. The completed box is 3 inches by 4 inches by 1 inch. Very satisfying size.
Here is the completed project.
In case you want to know, you can put six of those chocolate-covered cinnamon gummy bears in each box.
