After reading about how to decorate a box, you will find out that it is not difficult at all. And you can make such things from a milk bag, an adhesive tape reel, from a wooden bracelet. Specially created master classes that complement step-by-step photos will help those wishing to learn how to make boxes and decorate them in the most unusual way.
How to decorate a box with painting?
To create a masterpiece like this, take:
- casket;
- oil paints;
- gold leaf;
- sandpaper;
- gold paste;
- nacre;
- polish;
- squirrel brush No. 2-6;
- synthetic brushes No. 00-3;
- oil for painting;
- oil paint;
- oil varnish;
- a set of cutters;
- Sinteko varnish;
- turpentine;
- car polish;
- flat synthetic brush No. 20;
- sanding paper turpentine;
- technical capacity;
- tee.
If you have a top box, first pull out the hinge to remove the lid.
Now you need to process the body of the product with sandpaper to remove the coating. When a matte surface appears, then finish this stage of work.
Use fine sandpaper to avoid scratching the surface of the product. You can download the presented drawing or use another one. Transfer the appearance of the Snow Maiden to tracing paper.
Now attach it to the lid of the box and mark the places that you will decorate with pearlescent paper. Then cut pieces of the desired size from it and attach them to the surface of the product to make sure that these inserts will just be in the place of the pompons of the Snow Maiden's hat and gloves.
Holding each such mother-of-pearl insert in turn with your fingers, you need to circle them with a cutter so that it leaves scratches here. Now you need to cut the surface of the product along these basting and insert an insert made of this thin shiny material into the recess. But first you need to coat this place with Poxipol glue.
After 15 minutes it will dry out, then you will remove the excess glue with sandpaper. Then walk over the surface of the product with Sinteko varnish. Here's how to decorate the box further.
Wait for the first coat of this varnish to dry, then carry the second one. In the same way, while waiting for the previous layer to dry, cover the box with four coats of this varnish. When the top layer also gets stronger, go over the surface with fine sandpaper.
To decorate the box further, carry pf-283 varnish on it. It needs to dry out, but not completely. Then apply with a brush the silver.
This is what the box looks like at this stage. Now attach tracing paper to its lid and trace the details of the image with a pencil so that they are well printed on the surface of the product.
Make a background by mixing oil paint with gold and silver paste. Use a thin brush to paint in the details of the image. Paint over the fur, facial features of the Snow Maiden, and the squirrel with oil paints.
Using paints of the desired shade, select other elements of the image, and also show where there is more light and where the shadow falls.
The lid should now dry out for a few days in a warm place. When this happens, apply 4 coats of Sinteco varnish in succession. After the top has dried, go over the image with fine sandpaper.
Cover the surface of the box with a so-called imitation. It consists of several materials. First, squeeze oil paint onto the lid, then drop varnish and a little thinner here, which is called a tee. Put this mass in a bowl of water and draw a drawing on its surface with a brush handle. You need to lower the box into it.
This will cover the painted part with imitation. Where it is not needed, it is necessary to wipe off the excess with a cotton swab.
Now put the box back in a warm place so that this coating is completely dry. After that, you paint it with varnish, when several layers of it are dry, then apply golden leaf on some details of the work. First mix varnish with turpentine and apply this mixture to the places where you will glue the gold leaf. Which is what you will do.
When the varnish is completely dry, remove excess veil with cotton wool, then apply varnish on top and dry the product. It remains to highlight some places in the picture, prescribe the areas where you glued the leaf, dry the work and varnish it. When all its layers are completely dry, all you have to do is polish the surface of the box with a soft cloth and admire what a wonderful piece of art you have.
If the method of how to decorate the box using this method still seems difficult to you, then check out another one. But if you do not have such an item, then you can make it yourself, using very affordable material for this.
How to make a cardboard box?
You can create such a beautiful product if you take:
- binding cardboard;
- the cloth;
- thin synthetic winterizer;
- cotton lace;
- a piece of paper;
- quick-drying glue, for example, Moment Crystal;
- cotton lace;
- pencil;
- ruler.
Glue each wall to the bottom to create a box like this.
Press firmly on the pieces to be glued so that they stick firmly to each other. Therefore, you need to use a quick-drying glue.
If you want to make a cardboard box of the same size, then use the following markings for craft paper, which you will use to decorate this box.
Apply an iron ruler to the paper and cut off unnecessary pieces with a clerical knife. Based on the pattern presented, bend some of the blanks.
Here's how to make a cardboard box next. Steam the fabric with an iron so that the surface is perfectly flat. Cut 2 parts from the blade. The first will measure 33 by 23 cm. The second will be 7 by 56 cm.
Glue a synthetic winterizer on the outside of the sides of the cardboard box, use quite a bit of glue so as not to crush the material, or double-sided tape. Now glue the fabric sidewalls on these places.
Fold the fabric down to the bottom and glue it here.
And cut the corners from above, not reaching the cardboard about 2 mm and bend the sidewalls, gluing them to the sides.
Glue the paper inside the cardboard box. This is how beautiful the workpiece looks at this stage.
You need to make the top of the box. To do this, glue the synthetic winterizer on the large cardboard rectangles, which are located on the left and right in the next photo.
As you can see, there is a distance between these three cardboard elements. It is equal to 7 mm. Now fold the fabric onto a paper base and glue the corners first, then the sides.
Here's how to make a cardboard box next. You can sew the same tag to the bottom of the product.
Attach the lace tape by sewing it on. You can also attach a metal tag.
Take a piece of scrap paper and place it on the back of the lid so that the same small fabric frame forms on all sides. Run your fingers or a scissor handle over the folds.
Apply enough glue to the second piece of cardboard and glue it to the box.
Once it's dry, you can put jewelry or other small items inside the box. A very nice box made of cardboard, which is made by hand.
If you have a great desire to have such a thing, but not enough materials, then see if you have a wooden bracelet, a cardboard scotch tape reel, a milk bag, an eggshell, a box at home. After all, from each such item, you can make a wonderful casket.
This is what you will learn now.
How to make a box - master class
If you like the shabby chic style, then by all means make this type of box.
Shabby chic
For the base of the box, you will need a cardboard box of Raffaello chocolates, but you can take another one, including a metal one. Here's what it takes to make the box:
- a box of Raffaello chocolates;
- the cloth;
- lace;
- leaflet with a picture;
- bead tape;
- glue;
- paper;
- threads;
- Styrofoam;
- thick thread;
- various decorative elements.
Cut the same circle out of paper and also out of polystyrene to fit the bottom of the box. Coat the sides of the container with glue and attach a piece of paper with a picture here. Place a piece of foam on the fabric and cut a larger circle out of it.
Place a cardboard circle on a foam blank. Gather the edges of the fabric with a thread and thread them onto the top of the piece of paper.
Drag the edges of the canvas with the threads to secure the piece in this position.
Connect the lid to the box and decorate the outer walls with lace, beaded ribbons and other decorative elements. Secure the tape with a thick thread.
If you have wooden bracelets, you can make a jewelry box out of them.
Casket made of wood
You will need:
- wooden bracelets;
- multi-colored polymer clay;
- glue gun;
- round cookie cutter;
- white marker;
- brushes;
- paints.
Roll a sheet of polymer clay into a circle with a rolling pin, put a wooden bracelet on it and cut off the excess along the contour of this product.
Bake the polymer clay to create a bottom for the box. Now you need to paint the bracelet yellow or another color and draw various lines or other patterns with a marker.
Insert the baked bottom of the bracelet down and secure with a glue gun.
Now take a couple of cookie cutters, the diameter of the first should be the same as the diameter of the bracelet itself, and the second slightly smaller. Use them to squeeze out two circles of green polymer clay and bake them.
Also bake a leaf cut from this material. Then you need to glue it up. Here is such a wonderful lid and the box itself will turn out.
If you liked it, but there is no polymer clay or bracelets, then make the same round one from scotch tape spools.
Out of the sleeve
Take:
- tape bushings;
- liquid plastic;
- polymer clay;
- satin ribbon;
- cardboard;
- glue;
- talc;
- texture sheets for clay;
- varnish designed for working with plastics;
- scissors;
- knife;
- brush;
- video clip.
Crafting the box begins with the fact that you need to put two sleeves on cardboard, circle them and cut them out according to the markings.
Now glue these circles to make a box with a bottom and a lid.
Roll out the clay thinly and cut a rectangular piece from it, which needs to be cut with a knife on both sides.
Lubricate the sides of the bushing with a gel intended for bonding polymer clay products. Attach this segment here. Use a thin knife to remove the excess.
Thus, arrange the entire inner wall. Now cut a circle of polymer clay to the size of the bobbin diameter and glue it as the bottom.
If you used dark polymer clay, then make a flagella from light or vice versa. Glue it at the junction of the inner wall and the bottom of the box.
Decorate the other half of the box in the same way and bake these two blanks in the oven so that the polymer clay hardens.
While this is happening, you will take a texture sheet and dust it with talcum powder. Now you can roll out this material with a roller and cut it into squares. With them, you will lay out the outer wall in the box, attaching these elements to the gel. But first, you need to glue these two bobbins to get a higher capacity.
Do not cover one strip yet, you put a satin ribbon here, then grease with gel on top and glue the rest of the squares here.
Cut a circle out of the clay, cover the bottom of the product with it, and then it remains to bake the box again. Thus, you have designed the bottom of this container. To finish up and up, decorate this part also with squares glued to the gel.
Do not fill in one row of the box for now, but first attach a satin ribbon here, and then close it with squares.
Glue the plastic triangles to the lid, and then attach the other half of the satin ribbon to the side.
Fold a small piece of satin ribbon in half and glue it to the side of the box.
Cover with white acrylic when it's dry, you can open and close such a lovely box.
The ribbons will allow you to hold the two parts and flip the lid with ease.
The next box is made of junk material. Dairy packaging is usually thrown away, but if people saw what a cardboard box could be made, many would want one.
From milk packaging
To get such a beautiful item, you need the following set of items. It consists of:
- packages from dairy products;
- double-sided tape;
- piece of canvas;
- ribbons;
- scissors;
- knife;
- rulers.
Cut off the bottom of the cardboard boxes. These photos have markings.
Using double-sided tape, you need to glue these elements together, and then attach the cloth to the future box.
Cut a rectangle from the side, it will become the lid. Also, applying tape here, glue this part with a cloth. Stick on the ribbon. You can still tie a beautiful container.
It will remain, using double-sided tape, to glue the lid and the bottom of the box together and a wonderful box, made with your own hands, will appear before your eyes.
Many useful things can be made from eggshells, including decorative items for the box. The rest of the materials are also quite affordable.
Eggshell
Take:
- eggshells;
- napkins;
- sticks for manicure;
- paints;
- PVA glue;
- thread;
- primer;
- sandpaper.
Rub over the surface of the box with sandpaper to align here. Prime the surface and grease it with glue. Break the shells and attach their fragments here.
To break the pieces of shell into even smaller pieces, press on them with a stick. Thus, decorate the surface of the box, and then grease the top with PVA glue.
When it's dry, paint it with white acrylic paint in several layers.
Decoupage of the box will help to further decorate it. Take the upper part of the napkin, glue it to the surface greased with PVA glue. After it is completely dry, you will see such a beautiful box for jewelry or small things.
If you were interested in learning how to make a box in this way, then you can see how others make them.
If desired, even ice cream sticks will turn into such a designer thing.
It is quite easy to make a box out of a regular shoe box.
