Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2009
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Pimp my Junk
Covering old shoe boxes for pretty storage
I’m a divil for (not) throwing things out. My friend Dolly gave me some pretty wall paper so I had heaps of ideas with what to do with it. Here is one
Materials:
v Shoe boxes, the ones with the lids that come completely off. I tried it with the others, disaster
v Scissors or sharp craft blade
v PVA Glue (dead cheap and water based so it’s easy to wash your glue brush after
v Ruler
v Clothes pegs
I’ve used two different types of paper for the boxes, you may want to just paint the bottom plain and cover the top with patterned colour co-ordinated paper.
- Measure the box and paper you’re going to wrap it in. Keep the margins fairly generous, with the paper going around the box it’ll need an inch or two more
2. Cut carefully the paper, take you’re time with this, you cannot wrap it like a present or you won’t be able to put the lid on, you have to make heaps of cuts to place every fold.
3. When you’ve glued each side, you may want to hold the tab down while it is drying with some pegs (this is especially true of stiff thick paper)
4. Repeat the same with the lid
It’s not the most difficult “pimp” yet, but if you have particularly fab paper then it can really look terrific
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