For making do-it-yourself caskets for tea using the cardboard technique, you need to prepare two cut-companions of cotton fabric (with the image of kitchen utensils and a cage), binding or beer cardboard (3 mm and 2 mm thick), whatman paper, thick PVA glue, transparent polymer glue, as well as a breadboard knife, masking tape, scissors, pencil and ruler.
Modeling and assembly of the box
The box will consist of two main parts: a box and a section for tea bags. To form a box of binding cardboard, cut out two rectangles 21.5x9.5 cm in size (casket base), 9.5x8.9 cm in size (side walls), as well as a back wall of 20.9x8.9 cm in size and a hinged cover 21, 5x9.7 cm.
Glue the side and back walls of the box to the bottom base of the box (21.5 x 9.5 cm). Glue the upper base at the end.
According to the dimensions shown in the diagram, cut out the details of the section for tea bags from cardboard. First glue at right angles to the base, and then glue the side partitions. At this stage, all the parts of the box must be glued with a transparent polymer glue, and masking tape used for temporary fixation of parts.
Box gluing
To paste on the front side of the box, cut a rectangle of 40.9x9.5 cm from the Whatman paper, and 43x12 cm from the fabric with the image of kitchen utensils. Glue the fabric to the Whatman paper, leaving 1 cm allowance on each side.
Hereinafter, for bonding fabric and paper parts, use PVA glue.
Paste the side and top base of the box with the resulting blank.
Cut off excess fabric at the corners of the box.
Bring the fabric allowances in and glue them.
Similarly, process the corners of the joints at the bottom of the box.
Now get ready for pasting the inner bottom of the box: cut a rectangle measuring 20.5 x 9 cm from the paper, and 22.5 x 11 cm from the fabric. Glue the fabric with the image of kitchen tools on the paper and cut the corners of the fabric at right angles.
Glue the blank to the bottom of the casket, place allowances on the walls.
To glue the inside of the casket from the Whatman paper, cut the blank 38.5 x 8.8 cm, and from the fabric into the red cage - 40.5 x 10.8 cm. Cut the corners of the fabric at a right angle, and then wrap it in and glue the allowances along the long sides of the rectangle.
Glue the workpiece to the inside of the box. Thus, at this stage, the two sides and the upper base of the casket box must be glued on the outside and inside.
Making lids and sections for tea bags
To implement this stage, cut out a 21.3x20 cm rectangle from a paper, and 24.3x23 cm from a fabric with the image of kitchen utensils. Glue the cardboard blank of the hinged lid (21.5x9.7 cm).
Glue an allowance of 24.3 cm in length first to the inside of the workpiece and then lateral allowances.
Now glue the whatman paper to the bottom base of the box, making an allowance on the back wall.
To finish gluing the outer part of the box, cut out the rectangles: from the Whatman paper 20.5x8.5 cm, from the fabric to the cage - 1 cm more on each side, i.e. 22.5 x 10.5 cm. Cut all the corners at an angle of 45 degrees, bring in allowances inward and glue the allowances along the long sides, and then along the short sides of the box. Glue the resulting workpiece to the inner base, and place the allowance on the cover.
Design your tea bag section. To do this, cut out rectangles of 20.3x8.7 cm and 20.3x8.5 cm from cardboard (2 mm). Glue them along the long side. Then, in accordance with the dimensions indicated on the diagram, cut 4 parts of the partitions and paste them between the bases.
Start gluing the bag section with the outside of the sides.To do this, cut out the contours of parts from a Whatman paper, cover them with a cloth depicting kitchen utensils. Glue the parts to the outer sides of the bag section, and place allowances at the bottom of the bases and through the cuts into the cells.
Seal the sections of the internal partitions with strips of fabric.
Proceed to gluing the inside of the section. Cut 3 rectangles 16x6.4 cm from the paper, and 18x8.4 cm from the fabric into the cage. Paste the inner cells with the blanks obtained, making allowances for the side partitions.
To paste the sides of the partitions, cut out 6 parts from the Whatman paper, paste over them with a cloth, and bring in allowances inside. Glue them to the cardboard parts.
At the end of the creation of the carton box for tea, glue the base of the bag section on the base fabric, glue the blank to the hinged lid and attach the decorative handle.
A box for tea bags is ready.
Elena Tregub
