Wednesday, October 29, 2008

My electric drill for gift-making

Gift maker will certainly need decorative items to beautify every gift he/she has made. One of the most common things that make a gift beautiful is the gift box. And for this purpose, a gift maker should have tools for making the gift box as unique as possible.

I'm not going to tell you about how to make a gift box on this post. But I'd like to tell you that if you want to create a unique gift box, sometimes you need an electric drill to make holes, especially on hard cardboard or triplex board.

Some gift boxes are form up by tying ribbon on six boards of which the holes are made. This means that you first make holes on the six boards (because a box has 6 sides - top, bottom, front, back, left and right side). Each board can have 4 holes. 2 on the left and two on the right.

This way of forming a box is mainly aimed at gift that is not too heavy ( I mean some light-weighted gift). Another purpose of making this kind of box is to give the gift receiver a chance to guess the gift inside, because the receiver will have to untie the ribbons which hold the box together.

Well, you can try your creativity with making holes on board and tie them together to form the box in another way. But remember to buy an electric drill first and also be careful when using the drill!