The Postcrossing - How to Make a Box for Postcards

Find out new useful Postcrossing tips as how to make a box for postcards. It does not matter you have few or a lot of postcards, for everyone is important how to store them. One of best and common way is store them in a box. So I will provide you easy to understand tutorial how to make a box from paper. You will get a box template, which you can easy to use.

• 4 pieces of paper (standard A4 size)

• Scissors

• Glue

Standard A4 size of paper (according to ISO) is 297 x 210 mm or 11.7 x 8.3 in.

If you will use stronger paper, your box will be more stationary.

Try to find sharpen scissors, your final work will be nicer.

Regarding glue – use glue which is dedicated special for paper, you will get better results.

Prepare your tools and papers. As you can see on the picture below.

Download patterns. Hereunder you can download patterns, they are marked as A, B, C. Just left-click on each pattern and then right-click the picture and select Save Picture As. After that you can store them in your PC.

Print your templates on your print office. Template A and B print just once, but the template C print twice! All printed papers are on next picture.

Use your scissors and cut prepared patterns.

Use your glue and stick indicated edges of templates. You will get a nice and useful postcard box.

Final results you can see below. If you have postcards in uncommon size, place them on smaller size.

If you are new in Postcrossing and you want to know more, check my other article and learn about this interesting hobby. Join the postcards crossing project and send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person somewhere in the world!

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