Decorate Boxes

Decorate boxes to make cute craft storage containers!

"Veni. Vidi. Velcroe.
I came. I saw. I stuck around.
~Anonymous"

My box decorated with buttons

Do you like to decorate boxes? When you add value to a previously plain, ordinary container, you are actually making an altered art project.

At the Stampin' Out Alzheimer's craft event, one of the challenges was to make an item other than a card using buttons as a decorative element. I wondered what to do. First I thought I might make a scrapbook page with some button embellishments, but that seemed like something I had done before. Then I thought maybe I would make a bracelet out of buttons. Before I could get organised to do that, my eye lit on the unadorned cardboard box I was keeping my reinkers and various paints in. I was suddenly inspired to turn that little eyesore into something a whole lot cuter! I decided to wrap buttons all around that little unsuspecting craft container.

First I found some pretty designer paper and I covered the box with that. I saved a piece of the paper to line the bottom of the box.

The box had a clear acrylic lid. I decided to use my Stazon ink to stamp some pretty little butterflies on the inside. If I had wanted to I would have painted and glittered them up (also on the inside).

Then I raided my button stash and started glueing them on to the outside of the acrylic lid in between the butterfly images where it pleased my eye. I added in a stamped shrinky-dink image as well (it's the fluer de lis 'button' you can see in one of the photos).

Do you think it turned out well? I think it looks heaps better than it did as a plain cardboard box! Why not look around your own craft room and see if there is an undecorated surface just begging for some bling? If you do, I hope you will feel free to share your creation with me.

One of the sides of the box