Posts tagged: boxes
Free & Pretty Folded Box Templates
By DIY Maven
Check out the templates for these and other darling little folded boxes at Skabeloner. Print, cut out and assemble in no time. Via Craftypod.
Curbly Video Podcast: How to Turn a Take-Away Container into a Decorative Storage Box
By DIY Maven
Tarting up a take-away container with paper is a fun, fast and easy project. They make beautiful gift boxes, but equally pretty storage boxes as well!
The supplies you’ll need:
A clean takeaway container (to forego the lingering scent of vegetable lo-mein, you can buy new takeaway containers at your local craft store for about a dollar.)
Decorative paper
Spray adhesive
Craft knife
2 metal brads
One large needle
A cutting mat and scissors
And newspa » READ MORE
How To Make Cereal Gift Boxes!
By ChrisjobMake gift boxes from your trash! Take advantage of your brightly colored recyclables, and they'll be no need for gift wrap.
Materials
- Gift
- Cereal box, or other clean food packaging
- Cutting mat or scrap wood cutting surface
- Ultility or craft knife (like a box cutter or X-acto blade)
- Straight edge
- Bone folder or large spoon
- Pencil
- Glue
1. Find the glued joint of your box and use the knife to open it, so that the box lies flat as one piece of cardboard.
2. L » READ MORE
DIY-able ‘Box’ Furniture
By DIY Maven
Calling Peter Marigold’s ‘Box Legs’ creations furniture might be a stretch, but they are oddly appealing. Created in response to modern-day consumers’ attachment to cartons in which held electrical equipment just ‘in case’ the said components had to be returned, Box Legs are fitted together using a string tourniquet that is in turn attached to legs creating ‘a piece of luxury furniture.’ Cheeky, to be sure, but this comes from the same desi » READ MORE
Make some sexy storage boxes
By badbadivy
It's almost tax time! Are you storing your tax receipts in a shoebox? Would you like to make that shoebox a lot prettier? Or, do you want some storage boxes but find the ones that look great are more money than you want to spend? It's really quite simple to make a useful and attractive storage box with a hinged lid using a shoebox, some contact paper, and some nuts and bolts.
Some idiot (me) forgot to take pictures while making the boxes, so I'l » READ MORE
