Carol from Craft n Chat brought some wallpaper samplers for us to make paper flowers.
I also chose a few I thought would make homely contemporary items. Butterflies, Birds, Vintage Travel and Campervan examples.
Covered Boxes
I have been stashing shoe boxes and various other boxes, which I could not bear to part with, for a while now so it was good to have something to do with them.
The first one I tried was the glasses box, because it is relatively square and I thought it might be easier, also being a substantial box it would not need lining.
I chose the Vintage Travel design for this. After much head scratching I managed to fold the paper in such a way that it made present style corners at each end and folded neatly into the the middle/inside. I then neatened the inside edges with a craft knife. Finally I used craft glue to stick the edges to the inside of the box.
The next two were shoes boxes with hinged lids.
The pieces of paper were approx. 18 inches square but not quite large enough to cover the whole box. More head scratching lead me to cutting the piece in half and then half again lengthways. One piece for the back, wrapping round to the front, one on the front wrapping round to the back (so that the joins don’t show) and the largest piece to cover the lid.
Due to the hinged lid the top piece needed to overlap the back piece slightly so that the hinge would still work.
I then covered the inside of one with leftover black stretchy velvet (never again, I was all black fluff and glue and it took ages) and the other with some leftover thin plastic sheet, like you use for table covers.
The end result looks OK. I can use them in my craft room to stash more bits and bobs. If they were a bit neater and had some ribbon added they would make nice gifts or gift boxes.
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