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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and I'm going to show you some simple ways of
decorating a craft jewelry
box. All these boxes here started out basically like this plain box
with a little cotton insert
it's great because what this does is it really cushions and protects your
jewelry if you're selling it or giving it away as a gift. It makes a lovely
presentation
there's a lot of different ways that you can alter these boxes that doesn't take
a lot of effort but really jazzy them up
personally I do like the plain look but you can also use all these
different ways of altering them
and using pretty much just you probably already have in your workshop
so as you can see I painted some
others I have stamped
some I've just tied ribbons around
here I used some gift wrap to cover it. A sharpie marker and even epoxy stickers
so I want to walk you through how I did
each of these. I'm not gonna make identical examples but I'm going to show
you the different techniques
I'm going to scoot these aside
pull some plain boxes
and show you a variety of ways in which you can really
make these into something very unique and a lovely presentation
so the easiest way
by far is just to take some ribbon and tie it around
here is a silk ribbon. I just tied a double bow
here is actually it's called On The Surface. It's this lovely card which has a
bunch of different ribbons on it and we sell it at Beadaholique.com
with a whole variety of colors and I just took four different ribbons and tied them
around
and actually if you're getting this to someone who loves to craft they're gonna
love using the ribbon for their art projects as well and then on this one
what I thought would look really nice with the craft box is just some hemp so all I
needed to do to this do one here is
cut a length of hemp
make it however long you like
and I just tied it around the box
so just like you do a gift package
just criss-crossing in the back, pull it up to the front
take one string under from the one direction
put the string under going the opposite direction
tie those to put it tight
I'm just tired a simple bow, this is a really nice simplistic look
and makes a lovely presentation
a super simple
if you just want to tie a ribbon around it, they look beautiful just doing that
another option
which is kinda fun is epoxy stickers. Here I have tied a ribbon as well
and then for the epoxy stickers I just took
graphic that I had
you can use whatever you have around the house, you can use a photo or whatever you
like
then
take an epoxy sticker
put it over the image
press it into place
just cut it out
take some Crafter's Pick glue and I going to use my fingers. if you've seen my other
videos you'll know I like to just use my fingers a lot
it's really easy
put it on the back of the image
flip it over
and press into place
on your box
you can use one, you can use multiples, whatever you like
I actually think it is really fun if you had a bigger box like this and you just
did solid colors and polka dots
I think that would be adorable, you can do you whatever you like on that
That's how you use epoxy stickers
another super simple thing to do
is just write on it. I've got a sharpie marker. You can just write whatever you
like
so you can write a personal message if you like and then you can go ahead
I've got stamps here
I have a little twig, a bumblebee, I have a dragon fly
I've got this great StazOn ink which is a permanent link
you can embellish it just by taking this stamp
dipping it in the ink pad
and then putting it onto craft box
super fun and super easy and have a couple more examples to show you of doing that
so you'll see on this one I actually made it look like a little gift tag that you can fill in
and on this one
I did the little bumble bees. I did them around the edge as well
so that's a fun cute idea. Whatever stamp you have will work so those are
some examples of stamping
another really easy way to alter these boxes is with sharpie markers and that's
what I've actually done to this one here
so I have a collection of markers
can you can just draw right on the
craft box
do whatever pattern you like
super simple
actually it would be really fun if you're doing a gift for a loved one, if you have children, let
them draw on these boxes
do a little
drawing for grandma or whomever
you can do whatever you like, a fun pattern, you can draw flowers
super quick and super easy
now if you want to put a little bit more effort into it
you can take it a step further and you can add paint or paper. I'm going to clear
my work surface so I have a little bit more room to work here
and show you how to
add paint to the craft boxes
and also how to cover one with a wrapping paper. You can use the comic
strip out the newspaper, you can use whatever you like
and apply it to the craft boxes itself
I'll show you how to do it
I've got the painted one, so you'll see on this one I actually did a
silver metallic brushed effect on background and then I just painted a tree
and this one I just did basically strips really kind of sloppy and messy
but they look kind of fun
and painterly
so I actually use
Vintaj patinas
I'd like to use what I have in my workshop and this is what I had in my
workshop
you do not need to use Vintaj patinas, you can use acrylic paint from the craft
store
you can use whatever paint you like. I would not recommend oil. If it's acrylic
or a fast drying paint, it's gonna work really well for this
so I'm gonna show you how to do this stripy technique
and I've got a plain box right here
and then this is a soldering mat. I like to use it because the paint
actually will come off of it pretty easily and I can keep reusing it
an alternative if you don't have a soldering mat or something like this
is a wax paper, that works fine as well
shake up the paint, put a dab of paint on and then I'm going to paint the
lid of my box
you might want to take it and separated from the base
so you won't get any paint on it
okay you can see I put on some green. I put some purple and some cream
Use whatever colors you like, this was just an example
and then just take a paintbrush
and I'm going to paint directly onto the box
and for the stripe effect
I'm basically just gonna do rows and I want it
to blend together
so I want to add a little bit of my cream. I did one that's pretty much
solid green
do another one
added a little bit of that cream to it
go all the way over to the side
now pick up a little purple
and a little bit of cream with the purple
back to my green and you notice I'm not cleaning my paint brush for this
of this particular effect
I want them to all blend together and it's quite okay if some purple ends up on the
green
add a little bit of cream
add the purple
I'm just working all the way down the box and this is going so quick you could
definitely do this for a gift
or if you're selling your jewelry and you want a really unique presentation
super quick and easy
all most to the end
I try to just
don't touch the wet area
and I would just let that dry
it'll look something like that
or you could also if you don't wanna be quite as abstract an you can do
something like a tree
or whatever you like
but really easy to paint onto these boxes, it absorbs in nicely
if you want something with a little shine make sure you get paint with gloss, if you want it
to be matte pick off a matte paint
so then the final technique I want to show you know
and there's many more techniques for these but these are the ones which I thought
would be really fun and easy to show
is to actually
cover the lid
in a piece of wrapping paper
to do that
you need some wrapping paper. This is a sheet that I got at a stationery store
and what's nice about this one
is it's actually pretty thick
I'm going to pick a
design that I want to be my focal
I think this will look great
so I'm going to go ahead
lay my box over it
and I'm going to leave about
just under twice the width
of the side here this about a half
not quite half an inch I'd estimate
I'd want a little under an inch all the way around
it's always better to cut a little extra then to not have enough
flip it over
and I can actually see my designed through it a little bit which is very handy
see about where I want it
I'm going to take some of the glue
you can use a tooth pick or a small piece of wire as applicator if you like
I prefer to use my fingers which goes a little bit quicker
I like to be able to smear it really nice
if you want you can squeeze it out of the cap I'm just wanting a little bit larger
quantities
so I took the cap off
flip it over
center it where you want it making sure that you leave enough on all sides
and just press into place
fold up
one edge
go to the other side
fold up another edge
this time take a little bit of glue
cover the edge
press the paper in place
do the exact same thing on the opposite side
let that dry for about two or three minutes, it doesn't take too long
and they were going to work on the other side and then folding this part over as well
and finishing up
now I want you to do
is I want you to go ahead once it's dry
and make a slit so on the edge that you folded over
and just make slit right in line with the others edge of the box
do that
on both sides
then fold down
that so that it makes a really nice neat
line when you put the lid back on
I like to pre fold just so that the paper knows were it's supposed to go once I
put the glue on
take a little bit of glue
and put it on the paper itself
fold over
and press into place
do the same on the other side
let that dry
for a couple minutes and then work on the other sides
so to finish off your box fold up
the two remaining sides
and you can tell it's going to make these little wings and you want that
so go ahead
allow those to make a crease
do that on both sides
before you go any further
make sure that this
paper which is protruding from the area where your lip is on the side of your box
it's not actually wider
than the actual
side of the box. I'm a little worried that mine is
so I'm just going to trim it down a little
this is where we talked about it's a little better to have too much than too little
cuz you can always cut it down
this is what we've got so far
now put a little bit of glue
in each of the folds
just a little will do it
just needing them to stay in place
now we do want to add a little bit of glue right in here
on both sides
so that the edge of the box is glued to the paper
you don't need a lot of glue here because you're gonna be folding this over again
like you did on the other side and that's going to anchor it in place as well
almost done basically, one more fold to go and just a little bit of gluing
this is what it looks like from the front
take
the paper
fold it over
as we do so
we're gonna watch these corners
I folded it in the middle to begin with now I'm working
my way to the sides
you see how that corner's coming in a little bit, that's perfects, that's
what we want
just roll it in
when I say roll it I mean i'm taking this corner and pushing it in
pushing it into the inside of the box
so we have a really nice line
do that on the other side as well
that corner I'm just going to manipulate. Take and push it in
do that on the other side as well. Fold in the middle
make sure that these corners
go direction that you want them to
if you press right in here it's going to help those corners a lot
so if one gives you trouble like this ones not folding in as much just take that
corner
and pull it to the inside
and press down
so now what we need to do is add some glue. I'm going to pull
that out a little bit
and
add some glue
add a little glue underneath the corners as well
do that on all sides
if you work can fast enough you can put glue over the tabs and the corners as well at the
same time
fold it over
fold your corner over. It should already be pre creased so it should be really easy
just push it into place
there you go
so we covered the lid. You can cover the base as well if you wanted to
just make sure your papers are not so thick that the lid and the base don't sit
properly on each other
here we have a lid
which we can put on our box
we've just converted this box from a plain craft box
into a really pretty well decorative box
so I'll show you these techniques again
just in their example form
so we've got the covered boxes
we have painted
we have
sharpie marker
we have epoxy stickers. These epoxy stickers are actually the scrabble tiles
size and I've used a little round one with a merry christmas
and you can stamp
which is fun, you make your own little to-from tag
write a personal message
and then finally
the easiest of all
just tying with ribbon. I've got silk ribbon, On the Surface
ribbons which you're crafting friends will love to reuse and then simple hemp
and you can use you like
so these are a bunch of different ways that you can take these craft boxes and alter
them, they're quick, they're easy, they're fun
or you can just use a craft box in it's original state. It's really quite pretty and
quite simple and elegant
I hope this video has given you some ideas where to start with the
decorating of your craft boxes.