September 26, 2025 • Updated February 25, 2026

How to Make a Gift Box with Wallpaper

After a year of filling your home with beautiful Spoonflower wallpaper projects, you’re probably left with a stack of leftover wallpaper samples. End the year beautifully, and sustainably, by using the remaining wallpaper samples to make elevated gift boxes that match your style. Follow our step-by-step instructions to learn how to make a gift box with wallpaper and ditch the tape and excess wrapping paper this season!

How to Make a Gift Box with Wrapping Paper | Spoonflower Blog

Materials to Make a Gift Box

1 leftover 24″ x 12″ Spoonflower wallpaper swatch
Pencil
Scissors
Scissors or X-Acto knife

Before you wallpaper a room, we always recommend buying a sample, or two, or twenty, to see the pattern in your space. After you complete your room, you’re left with a stack of samples in beautifully patterns. We love finding ways to reuse these samples in our day-to-day! And only at Spoonflower will you find GIANT wallpaper samples that can be repurposed easily. We don’t send you a tiny square, you get a 24″ x 12″ swatch to see the full pattern in your space. Chances are, the wallpaper patterns you chose match your style. We love when our celebrations are on brand and theme to our aesthetic! Use those leftover samples to make these beautiful, and easy, gift boxes for holiday gifting or your next event you take a gift to.

Steps to Make a Gift Box with Wallpaper

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Step 1: Cut Out Squares

To make your gift box, you’ll need two square pieces of paper. To make sure the top fits nicely over the bottom, your bottom piece needs to be at least 1/2″ smaller than the top piece. If your paper isn’t square, use a ruler to measure out a square, mark with a pencil and cut with scissors or an X-Acto knife. Your box can be any size you’d like, but for this tutorial we’re using paper that is 12″ for the top and 11.5″ for the bottom which will give us a finished box measuring 4″.

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Step 2: Fold the Paper Squares in Half

Starting with your smaller square piece (the bottom of the box) fold it in half vertically pressing down the fold to crease it well. Unfold and lay flat. Now fold your paper horizontally also being sure to crease it well. Once both folds are done unfold the paper again and lay it flat. Repeat for the second piece of paper. Pro Tip: Use your nails or a credit card to push down along the folds and make extra crisp creases.

Step 3: Fold Your Paper into a Diamond

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Starting with one corner, fold it up to the new creases in the center so it makes a small triangle and crease that edge well. Repeat this process in the remaining three corners. In the end our paper should look like a smaller diamond. Repeat for the second piece of paper.

Step 4: Make Top and Bottom Creases

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Rotate the diamond 45° so it’s a square, and fold the top edge down to the center where all the corners meet and crease. Then fold the bottom edge up to meet it in the middle, crease it well and unfold both the top and bottom so we’re back to our smaller square. Repeat for the second piece of paper.

Step 5: Turn Your Paper Square into a Rectangle

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Next unfold the top triangle shape up so it lays flat and repeat with the bottom triangle. Now fold in both the left and right edges to the middle and crease well. Our piece should look like a tall rectangle with triangles at the top and bottom. Repeat for the second piece of paper.

Step 6: Create an L with Your Paper

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Now we’re ready to start forming our box! There will be a few creases running horizontally across the folded paper, but we want to stand the top triangle up at the third crease from the top so it makes an L shape. Fold it flat at the third crease and press well to get a better edge. Repeat for the second piece of paper. Pro Tip: If you feel like you’re a few creases short, double check that you rotated your paper 45º in step 4.

Step 7: Unfold the Edges

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Now lift and partially unfold the far edge up so it forms a corner with the first piece we stood up. Repeat this process on the opposite long edge so you have two corners of the box made. Repeat for the second piece of paper. Pro Tip: Depending on which direction pieces were folded, try re-creasing them to get a better end shape.

Step 8: Finish Your Gift Box

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To finish your box, fold one top triangle flap down into the box so it lays flat against the side and the bottom. Repeat this process on the last side and the box top. Now you can create the top for the box starting with step 2 using the larger square of paper you cut previously.