I never
have enough place to store hide stuff, especially since my flat doesn’t
have enough hiding places, no built in closets…so everything is hidden…in plain
sight.
As my
crafts have started to take over my dining table, I have to figure out ways to
hide away my craft stuff into the house décor. So I thought boxes…shoe box
covered in gift wrapping paper.
I
started by cutting a piece of wrapping paper big enough to cover all four sides
of the box bottom and a little extra to fold over the edges.
I used a
pencil to trace the exact place of the box on the back of the paper – this would
help me when I’d have to glue the box to the paper, but also to make sure that no
matter if I move the box, I could always find its place on the paper.
And since I
would basically wrap the box in the paper, I realized that the four folded
corners of the paper will be too big and will thicken the box. So I decided to
cut them off yet leaving about an inch of paper to fold it in so I’d have nice
corners.
Once the
paper was trimmed, the gluing started. I coated the rectangle I had marked out
with the pencil on the paper, with a thin layer of decoupage glue (Mod Podge)
and placed the box on the paper. I thought that this way the paper would be
straight without any air bubbles.
Well, it didn’t turn out like that as the
cardboard box was not heavy enough to remove the air bubbles. When I got to
wrapping the box cover, I changed the technique and I coated the top of the
cover and placed the paper on it. It was better like that.
At this
point I started to glue the sides of the box: glue on the box, glued the paper
and pressed well. In the photos you can see what I’ve done to the corners.
I folded
the extra paper over the edges, on the inside of the box.
I did the
same with the box cover and in the end I used the box to hide all mu adhesive
tapes and wrapping ribbons.
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