A box for photos and mementos of your baby

Surely every mother has the most pleasant and incredible feelings and memories when she gives birth to a daughter. This moment is always very exciting and you want to literally capture every second. Therefore, they try to photograph or film everything that happens on the baby’s birthday, as well as every day thereafter as she grows up. So, to store all these discs and photos of your daughter, you need a special box or casket that you can make yourself. Moreover, it will be an extraordinary box, it will have a fabric texture, very soft and pleasant to the touch.

To sew the box we will need to take:
• Binding cardboard 20*20 cm, two sheets and 5*20 cm;
• White cardboard;
• Fabric in pink, pink and white stripes and cakes on a white background;
• Pink scrap paper with stars and pink and white stripes, two sheets 30*30 cm;
• Beige scrap paper 15*15 cm, two sheets;
• Picture with a cat;
• Pink napkin;
• Pink knitted flowers;
• Metal crowns;
• Metal brads with pink stones;
• Pink metal brads;
• Watercolor paper square size 36.5*36.5 cm;
• Curb hole punch;
• Pink cotton lace;
• Cards printed with the metric and the child’s name;
• Ruler, glue stick, scissors, pencil, ink pad, adhesive tape effect;
• Sintepon;
• Double-sided tape;
• Carved flags, butterfly and pink flowers;
• Lighter.



The box itself will be made from binding cardboard at the base, so we first need to make one blank for the box out of three parts. We take square blanks and a narrow rectangular one, we also take two strips of white cardboard 4 by 20 cm. We fold the binding blanks evenly and tightly together.


Apply a glue stick to the cardboard strips and glue one piece together.


Now we smear the binding base with a glue stick and glue the padding polyester onto it.


Thanks to the padding polyester, our box will have a soft and pleasant texture to the touch. Now take the fabric and place it vertically.


We cut two different pieces of fabric 13*50 cm each. We cut more so that we have reserves for wrapping. We will sew lace between the fabrics, so we cut off a 50 cm strip. We will use satin ribbon to tie the box, cut 20 cm sections.


Smooth out the ribbons, fabric and lace well. Now we sew the fabric together, and sew lace onto the joint.


The fabric is laid out on the table, picture side down, and we place the piece with the padding polyester facing down.


We smear the corners with a pencil, wrap them beautifully and glue them.


Then we spread, wrap and glue the side panels.


And only then we spread it on top and bottom, slightly stretching the fabric. We glue striped tape to the sides with double-sided tape.


We fold the box, check all the irregularities in the fabric, there shouldn’t be any.


We need to try on the design for the top of the box. From scrap paper we cut a square with stars 14.5 by 14.5 cm, a picture with a cat, a napkin and a tag card with the child’s name.


In this sequence we will assemble the design, glue it and sew it on. We sew everything on, we also sew along the edge of the entire lid of the box.


Now we need to attach the crowns to the brads, and also insert the brads with pebbles inside the knitted flowers and secure them at the bottom of the box.


Now we need to cut out a 19.5 by 30 cm rectangle from scrap paper. We will use this rectangle to decorate the inside of the box.


We glue and sew the children's metrics onto this rectangle, then glue the flags at the top.


We glue this rectangle inside the box. Now we need to put the cover under something heavy. In the meantime, we can make the box itself from watercolor paper, which we will then paste into the cover of the box.


We need to divide the watercolor square into equal parts on all sides, divide it into parts 4.5 cm by 5 cm by 19.5 cm by 5 cm by 4.5 cm. We draw lines with scissors under the ruler, fold the workpiece and cut off the excess at the corners .


Inside the bottom of the box we cut out two scrap pieces, punch one on the side and glue them into one rectangle.


We stitch the bottom. Now we fold and glue the box along the corner tails.


Now we need to paste this box into a soft cover. We glue it in, smooth everything out well, close it and also put something on top that is not very heavy, but so that the box is fixed well. We glue flags, a butterfly and flowers inside.


The box is ready.You can put photos and various little things of your child in it, or you can make many different boxes with inscriptions and store your baby’s things separately in this box. Thank you for your attention!