Here's project #2 which involves a wall paper scrap. Very matchy-matchy, I know.
My parents worked partly at home with their own business in the 60's and 70's and I salvaged some of their index card boxes when they closed up shop. I use a couple for photos and this green one has kept all our passports, vaccination cards and travel insurance cards in on place for years. It's been hiding towards the back because very attractive.
Perfect candidate for a new outfit! I cut a rectangle which I roughly measured to be long enough to cover the box on all side. Then I placed the box in the center towards the front and cut notches on a diagonal towards the front corners.
I used glue stick throughtout the project and glued one side at a time. Here the bottom front is getting it's coating.
These cute mini clothes pegs helped enormously to keep the folded in bits in place until they were dry.
Once the whole bottom front, bottom, back, top and top front were covered it was a matter of figuring out how to cut the rest. Depending on what kind of a box you have it will probably be different from mine so I can only tell you to wing it. It's no big deal if you make a mistake, it's only a box and some left over wall paper remember?!
My box looked like this with some notches and cuts, again with clothes pegs to hold everythig in place while I figured out the next step…
… which was the bottom sides. I folded those in, trimmed so there was just a little edge to be folded over and pegged the open part. For the bottom corners I later simply trimmed the paper along the edge and lastly folded the bottom part under.
After the bottom side flaps I did the same on the top and again you need to eye ball it and cut and trim.
Here's the finished product before it was filled with it's contents again. It can now take pride of plave towards the front of my home office.
And for those of you who are wondering, no I'm not a leftie, I just need to use my right hand for the camera 🙂
Today's Swedish words:
insurance = försäkring
glue stick = limstift
clothes peg = klädnypa
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I really like the look of both items! And the box looks like a great find for holding those important papers.
I once bought nice wallpaper to paper the inside of an old armoire. Never got round to it though, and now the armoire has gone… I might use it for magazine holders now. Since they are wood, do you think Mod Podge would work??
Grrreat! I will now search the archives for index card boxes to hold the household passports. And then I will use the limstift with a klädnypa pinching my nose as a försäkring towards the smell. 😀
Kram! (hug)
I think it’ll work great!
I had to finally leave you a comment to tell you that I love your blog and find it very inspiring. This project makes me wish I had some left-over wall paper. 🙂 Anyhow, thanks for the inspiration and keep up the great work.
This box looks great! I can’t never find storage boxes covered in fun papers
( except very expensive) and this will allow me to personalized plain ones. Thanks!
ohh, great tutorial!! simply and perfect!!! 😉
Love both projects.
I have some wallpaper left, but I think is a bit thick for this works. Yours seems to be no so thick.
And a question apart from that. Some coments ago, one could enter the web of the people who write the coments. It was interesting to discover new blogs, that read yours, and have things in common. Why it is not avaiable now?
Thanks. Love the light of all your photos. Unfortunately by the time I arrive at home light is low.
How odd! I haven’t made any changes. I will have to check with typepad to see if they are having a problem. I agree, I often check out coment links and find other fun sites.
You’re so crafty! I also love your “organization” projects!
Here’s the reply I got from Typepad:
“Thanks for the note. We have reported this issue to our engineers and
hope to have this resolved soon.
We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we
work to correct this.”
They are on it 🙂
That looks so sharp. I love that you just jumped in and figured it out as you went, with great results.
Yay! They fixed it!