Hello Youtube friends welcome to my channel my name is Deidre from Our Upcycled Life and I do
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great content today I'm going to show you how you can take a cardboard box from your recycling bin
and make it beautiful easy technique you probably have all the stuff at home already
and it's basically free and they make fantastic gifts and you can do so many different designs
with it so today I'm going to show you how you can fix up a cardboard box and make it beautiful
okay let's get started first thing we're going to do is cut all those flaps off with a nice
sharp knife and then take all the extra tape off that's around the side of the box
and because we took all the tape off around the outside I'm gonna
reinforce the inside with a little bit of packing tape so it doesn't all
collapse and I'm using my homemade baking soda paint and I'm going to put two coats on and
it covers really well over this cardboard if you haven't made any baking soda paint
you need to try it out because it covers fantastic and it's really cheap and easy to make
and i picked up this stencil on amazon i just love the leaf pattern and that's what I'm going
to use on this project i put a little bit of spray adhesive on the back of the stencil so it'll stick
better and I'm going to apply it to one side of the box press it down firmly and then i'm going to
use my texture paste and this texture paste works great it gives your paint a little bit of a raised
feature when you use it and it looks wonderful when you use it with stencils I'll put the recipe
for this down below in the description and up above here try it out it's a really cool technique
and I'm just using a credit card to apply the texture paste and when you're all done and
you've applied the texture paste over your whole stencil you pull it off and it looks fabulous
i love when i can take something that would normally be thrown out in the trash or put in
a recycling bin and make it pretty this would be a great diy to do with your kids or if you need a
last minute gift these make great gift boxes you can fill it up with treats and then put
wrapper around it tie it at the top with a nice bow and it just finishes it off perfect
and don't waste that paint on that stencil push it down on a piece of paper
and reuse it again for another project you can also use these for all kinds of different holidays
Easter valentine's day Christmas Halloween just use different stencils for different holidays
fill it up and you could put flowers in them you can put treats in them you can put holiday decor
in them the possibilities are endless if you have two or three smaller boxes all kind of assorted
sizes you could do a nice table centerpiece for fall and fill them up with pumpkins and gourds
i just have so many things racing through my head of what you can do with these cardboard boxes
so I've decided I'm going to put a plant in mine and give it away as a gift so I'm
going to put a nice burlap edge around mine i just picked up this ribbon at the dollar store
I'm going to hot glue it all around the top and I think it'll finish it off really nice
okay all finished I'm going gonna put a pretty plant in it and doesn't that look fantastic
now head to your recycling bin and grab those cardboard boxes thanks so much for watching
today's video and if you have any questions or comments leave them down below i love to read them
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