A very necessary and important thing in the household is a box. They have been used since ancient times: from films and books, we remember the young ladies who had these beautiful products, in which documents, money, and jewelry were stored. Museums exhibit beautiful creations of old masters, but it must be said that many modern caskets are not inferior to them. Someone collects these beautiful, outlandish, original products. But such an unusual little thing can be done by yourself. It will be a pleasure to receive a handmade gift for your loved one. How to make a box with your own hands, using improvised material, we will consider further. Show your creativity and hand made little thing will please you. The manufacturing process will take quite a bit of time,
How to make a box with your own hands from a bamboo napkin
You will need a regular bamboo napkin. On the one hand, you need to sew or glue the fabric - this will be the inside of the box. The sides can be cut out of cardboard and on both sides, in the same way, attach fabric cut to size to them in the same way. Need her to one sidematched in color to the outer surface, and on the other - corresponded to the inside of the box. Next, you need to fold the napkin, glue the sides and make a magnetic fastener. The base of the box is ready. Now you can decorate: glue coffee beans in the form of various patterns, flowers from fabric, paper, beads, etc.
How to make a box with your own hands from waste material
An interesting box can be made even from a jar of cotton swabs. Inside, you need to insert a picture, rolling a cylinder out of it with a diameter the same as that of the base. The lid can be decorated by sticking flowers from plastic bottles or just colorful buttons on it.
A small box with a tight lid can be made from a cream jar by attaching beads, flowers, etc. to it. It all depends on your imagination. Theoretically, the box can be made from any container with a lid, you only need to decorate the product. This is a huge scope for creativity and the use of various techniques.
How to make a DIY box out of cardboard
The basis for the product can be glued together from cardboard (as taught at school). But the best thing is to take a shoe box: it is much stronger, and it will save you time. It must be pasted over with plain paper on all sides. Further, the box can be decorated using decoupage, quilling or scrapbooking techniques. Decoupage is a way of decorating with paper napkins pasted with PVA glue diluted one to one with water. Caskets decorated in this technique can be very diverse. There are countless napkins. You can choose them in the same style with your interior and several of these caskets will decorate your home. Quilling is a way to create a three-dimensional decoration, which is obtained by using twisted thin paper strips. Scrapbooking is a kind of needlework, which consists in the ability to beautifully compose a picture from special blanks: flowers, stickers, paper clippings, etc.
Another way to make a cardboard box with your own hands is to use matchboxes. You need to glue them in several pieces, like a small chest of drawers, then glue the base of thick cardboard from below. Further, at your discretion, you can decorate with scrapbooking paper, flowers, etc. Instead of handles on the drawers of such a chest of drawers, you can glue buttons or make them out of wire. This should look like a vintage doll chest of drawers.
