Box Art

1)  This is the finished box that I will be giving a tutorial of.  I posted it first so that it would be something more interesting than the raw products I started out with.

2)  This is what I started with.  Some recycled tissue paper from a store in the Mall of America that uses this to wrap their clothing in when my teenager buys clothes there.  A leftover piece of feather from the ice skates I embellished in another posting.  Two chipboard stars, a piece of newspaper print off the computer, a chipboard letter "A", vintage black ribbon and recycled garage sale ribbon and a recycled white jewelry box.

3)  I started with the empty top of the white box, the tissue paper and a good glue stick for adhearing the tissue paper to the box.  I cut the paper to size and wrapped it carefully and similar to wrapping a present or upholstering.  Then I proceeded to add the tissue paper to the bottom of the box.

4)  The next step was to cut a length of the two ribbons to size and glue stick them down as well.  I cut my lengths to fit the top of the box and into the cover, so that it was a clean and neat look.

5)  The last step was to add the feather piece with stronger glue to the ribbon, than I glue sticked the newspaper copy to the star and cut out the paper after I had it glued onto the star.  I layerd the top star onto the newspaper print for the center and added an "A" for Ann (the buyer of my pendant) on the bottom right corner.

6)  Ann purchased the star pendant as she loves stars, so I kept this in mind when I embellished her box and made it with her likes in mind. 

I'm thinking it turned out pretty great for a spur of the moment idea.  This is in the mail on its way to Ann in Iowa.  I hope she likes it!