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Hinged Lid Box Template

A keepsake box in one piece whose lid is hinged at the back and has a lip on three sides that closes down over the walls. Opens and closes without coming off. Keepsakes, stationery, photos, gift sets and memory boxes.

Hinged lid box — change shape

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Only here Your own design

Put a logo, photo or pattern straight onto the box — most free template sites give you the outline and stop there. Drag it where you want it; it is trimmed to the cut lines so nothing prints off the card, and it stays in your browser.

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Bigger than the paper? Each piece prints whole on its own sheet. A single piece is never split: pick bigger paper or a smaller size. More about printing

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Drop a picture anywhere on the drawingTap “Add a picture” below to print your own design on this box.

Print at 100% (“actual size”), never “fit to page”, or the box comes out the wrong size.

The hinged lid box template, flat and folded

Hinged lid box template — free printable dieline with cut and fold lines, any size
The printable dieline at its standard size. Type your own size above for yours.
Hinged lid box folded up from the template — the finished box
The box it folds into.

What this template is for

A keepsake box in one piece whose lid is hinged at the back and has a lip on three sides that closes down over the walls. Opens and closes without coming off. Keepsakes, stationery, photos, gift sets and memory boxes.

Also called hinged box · keepsake box · box with attached lid · hinged gift box — all the same shape, and this is it.

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same hinged lid box at the same size — only the format changes.

PDF printing at home
Print at 100 per cent, or hand it to a print shop as "actual size, no scaling".
PNG 300 dpi Canva, Photoshop, Procreate
Upload, lock it in place and design your hinged lid box on top. Free plan and phone included. Full Canva walkthrough →
SVG Cricut, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity
Vector, with cuts, folds and labels on separate layers. Cricut and Silhouette walkthrough →
DXF Silhouette, laser and vinyl cutters
Two layers, CUT and FOLD — and the one free Silhouette Studio Basic will open.

Getting it printed properly →

Printing it

  1. Type your size above, then download the PDF.
  2. Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
  3. Too big for the paper? Pick your paper size and leave Fit the pieces to the page ticked: each piece gets its own place on a sheet and the PDF comes out with every page in it, nothing cut in half and nothing to tape.

How to put it together

These pictures are the hinged lid box itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the three steps never do.

  1. Cut the solid lines

    Every solid line is a cut. Do the inside shapes first, while the sheet is still whole and easy to hold.

  2. Score every dashed line

    Dashed lines are folds. Score each one first — an empty ballpoint against a ruler — or the card cracks along the outside of the bend.

  3. BOTTOMBACK · hinge aboveFRONTSIDESIDELIDLID FRONT

    Fold, glue and hold

    Score every dashed line. Fold the four walls up and glue the corner tabs on the FRONT and BACK inside the SIDE walls. Fold the LID's side lips and front lip down and glue the two tabs on the front lip inside the side lips. Fold the lid over at the hinge on top of the back wall. It closes with its lips outside the walls.

Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let the box dry standing up.

Questions about the hinged lid box

How is the lid joined on?
It is the same sheet: the lid folds over from the top edge of the back wall, so it opens and closes without coming off.
How much bigger is the lid?
One board plus the clearance you set beyond the box’s outside, on the front and on both sides, so its lips close over the walls.
Will it print on one sheet?
Yes. At the size it opens with, 110 × 70 × 40 mm, it fits one A4 or US Letter sheet.

Print your own design on it

Add a logo, photo or pattern in the panel on the left and drag it onto the hinged lid box. It is trimmed to the cut outline, embedded properly in the PDF, and never leaves your computer — most free template sites hand you the outline and stop there. How printing your own design works.

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