How to Make a Heart Shaped Chocolate Box From Paper

Fill your heart-shaped box with homemade chocolates for an added touch.

Heart-shaped chocolate boxes are synonymous with love, especially on Valentine's Day. Making your own heart-shaped box will be more meaningful for someone you love than if you send a store-bought or send-by-mail box. You can design a chocolate box using paper from your crafting supply box for a cost-effective project. Give your box some personality with a photograph of you and the intended recipient, and include an inscription of the date and a heartfelt message on the lid.

Things You'll Need

• Card stock
• Scissors
• Pinking shears (optional)
• Corrugated cardboard
• Wax paper
• Hot glue gun
• Miniature cupcake liners
• Satin ribbon

Instructions

1. Trace a symmetrical 5-inch heart out of card stock. Cut out the heart and use it as a template for tracing a second heart from the card stock; you can use a different color for the second heart, if preferred. Cut out the second heart.

2. Use the card stock heart as a template to trace a heart shape on a sheet of corrugated cardboard and a piece of wax paper. Cut out both of these hearts.

3. Trim around the edges of all of the hearts with a pair of pinking shears, if desired.

4. Cut a 2-inch-wide strip of card stock 14 inches long. Bend the strip around the edge of one of the hearts and then slide the heart form you made with the strip inward by 1 inch. Crease the bottom and top of the heart form of the strip to create the points of the heart. Glue the overlapping card stock of the strip with hot glue to form a heart shape.

5. Cut a second 2-inch-wide strip of card stock 14 inches long. Wrap this strip to the outside of the heart and crease the points. Form the shape of the heart but allow it to be a bit larger than the initial heart. Affix the overlapping card stock using hot glue. Remove the inner heart from the outer heart.

6. Place the solid heart that you want to use for the bottom of the chocolate box on the work surface with the back side facing down. Position the smaller hollow heart on the center of the heart. Apply a strip of hot glue in the seam between the two shapes to secure the heart form to the base.

7. Turn the other heart to use for the lid of the box upside down. Place the larger hollow heart in the center of the box lid. Affix it to the lid with hot glue applied along the seam.

8. Press the heart-shaped corrugated cardboard into the base of the bottom of the box. Line the base with miniature cupcake liners to be filled with chocolates. Place the wax paper heart on the top of the liners. Cover the box with the heart-shaped lid.

9. Cut an 18-inch piece of satin ribbon. Tie the ribbon into a bow. Hot-glue the bow to the center of the lid of the box.

Tips & Warnings

• Embellish the box with glitter, rhinestones or smaller card stock heart shapes, if desired.

References

• Dollar Store Crafts; Make a Miniature Valentine Chocolate Box; January 2010
• Martha Stewart: Bejeweled Valentine's Day Box

Resources

• Huckleberry Prairie; Make Your Own Box of Chocolates; February 2010