altered box

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Designer: Becky Novacek

This is just a fun creative project using paper scraps and bits of trims. All you’ll need is a box that you should be able to find easily enough at your local thrift store. The day that I found the box I used, I found several other boxes that would have worked equally well. A game box, cigar box or any other type of vintage box with a lid will work. This happened to be an old school box. I have seen paint supply boxes in the past that would be really fun to alter. The size of the box is any size you like for your space. The box I used is 7”x 12” x 2” deep. I think this project would look great on a tabletop or hanging on a wall.

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Instructions (Print version)

Take a stack of favorite scrap papers and line the inside of your box and lid. I used a wet adhesive and allowed it to dry before layering.
Take scraps that could be in strips for the inside trim. Simply take strips that are about ½” wide and any length and use the Fiskars Scallop Sentiment Border Punch on long sides. Continue to punch as many lengths as you need to trim out the lid and box sides. Add bold photo (the one I used is a 5”x7”) to inside of box and then trim out with more scalloped punched strips.

Use Fiskars Round n Round Squeeze Punch to create one circle from vintage paper. Then trim and add to photo. This would be a good spot to add more journaling or a date if you like.
Layer vintage ledger paper over chipboard scrap and adhere. Use Fiskars Pinking Shears to trim bottom edge. I have 2 Fiskars Pinking Shears, one for paper/crafting and one for fabric. Handwrite quote.
Add pompom trim and vintage floral piece to quote block and adhere with Fiskars Foam Dots.

Add vintage embroidered trim below quote box.

The box I used had a sort of built-in shelf which I used for a scrabble tile word. You could just adhere the tiles if your box doesn’t have a shelf or you could use the bottom of the inside of the box. Also, I left some of the tools that were in the original box for fun.
 

Supplies:

Fiskars: 01-004596 Scallop Sentiments Border Punch

http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_borderpunch-scallop-sentiment.aspx

Fiskars: 12-74247097 Round n Round Squeeze Punch

http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_roundnnroundl.aspx

Fiskars: 94457097 Pinking Shears

http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_pinking-shears.aspx

Fiskars: 12-25967097 Foam Dots

http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_foam-dots.aspx

other: A stack of favorite scrap papers, Pink Pompom Trim, Vintage Trim, Floral Sprig, Scrabble Tiles