The document provides instructions for folding a greeting card into a box shape. It involves the following steps: 1. Square up the card face and draw an "X" on the back by drawing lines corner to corner. 2. Fold each corner of the "X" to the center to form a smaller square. Make additional folds along the lines of the "X". 3. Cut from the edge of the card to the second folded crease line, but only cutting to the corner of the square formed by the folds. 4. Fold the cut sides inward so that they overlap and form the sides of the box lid. Fold the remaining corners to form the other two sides.

1. Step 1. "Square-up" the face of the card. Example: if the card is 5"
wide, then center the design and make it 5" tall as well...ending up
with a 5" square piece to work with.

2. Step 3. Flip card face over and draw a line corner to corner to form an
"X" on the back of the card.

3. Step 4. Fold each pointed corner
to the center of the "X". This will
form a smaller square....looking
somewhat like an envelope. Look
at both illustrations on this page.

4. Step 5. The red
dashed lines are
the fold line creases
that you made in
Step 4. Now take
the corner and fold
across to the point
the dashed line
crosses the "X" line.
Crease each side as
you fold. Once the
creases are made
we will use the fold
lines for folding and
cutting in the next
step.

5. Step 6. You should now have the second folded crease line (shown
with black ink). You will now cut from the edge to that second fold
line.....cut only to the corner of the square that is made by the second
fold lines. Look at illustration below.

6. Step 8. You will fold the side wings that you previously cut
to the inside so that that they overlap one another. Then
lift up the sides to form the sides of the box lid...fold in the
small wings and fold over the other corners to form the Original "X" line.
other two sides of the box lid. Once finished, the box sides
have been formed and the corners of the original square
meet inside the middle of the box lid.
These are the lines
where you made the
previous 4 cuts.

7. Extra Notes: Notice the original square that you
made from the front of the card. The diagonal lines
that make the "X" are shown....note the "X" is made
on the back of the card and does not show on the
front of the card. The dashed lines show the
three sets of folded line creases that are made
when proceeding through the steps....all folds are
made on the back of the card face. Note that the
central picture on the card will end up on the
diagonal of the box top as shown here.
If you want it to be square to the box top, you
must cut the original card face on the diagonal
by turning 1/4 of a turn to make a diamond.