Gosh, the 19th already…! Today I’m making/decorating giftboxes.
I am a a hoarder (“what?!”, my family and friends cry, “it cannot be true!!“) so I have all manner of lovely boxes just waiting to be made into something lovely and useful again. This box was a box of aftershave that my wonderful mother (knowing my penchant for such things) saved from my (delightfully-smelling) brothers’ bins.
I covered it in old vintage book-pages, covering any sign of its former life (note the bottom outside half had lovely deep green sides unblemished by logos, so I left that unpapered in contrast)
Then I started adding papers, laces, old maps, buttons and ephemera on top; here is a series of photographs I took as I made the decorative top:
Before I added the buttons, butterfly anything else 3-D, I covered the whole thing with PVA/mod podge to seal it all (this also makes to “sit” down together.
I scripted “Keepsake Box” on the coffee-stained card and it’s ready for gifting!
I used to make those when I was young, using flowers cut from greeting cards. Very pretty!
you are one seriously talented lady!
Blessings
Karen
Lovely keepsake box.
Popped over on recommendation from your sis!
Best wishes
Sara
That’s beautiful, I never know what to do with my boxes but now I do. Thanks.