Crafts: Memory Box Home: greenlightwrite.com featuring |
|
Crafts: Memory Box Home: greenlightwrite.com featuring |
|
Crafts Gardening Home Helps Memories are wonderful, but what can you do with all those odd 3-D objects we collect? Make a Memory Box, of course! They've been around for many years and are featured in Velvet Undertow, the second story in my Goodbye Lie series. Any age will have fun doing this project. Make it a family event so each of you can have his or her own treasure chest!
Enjoy, |
click on the photo to enlarge it Theme Determine your design style or theme. Then choose enough of a coordinating fabric, felt, paper or paint to cover the outside of the box with a lid about the size of a cigar box - unless you plan on a bigger box. Here are a few ideas:
You'll need
How to Set the box on a piece of coordinating felt and trace around it. Cut out the traced pieces and place them inside the box as lining. Trim to fit if necessary. Glue down. Trace your box on your theme fabric or paper and cut out the covering for each exterior surface of your box except the bottom. Lightly and carefully spray each surface except the bottom of the closed box with spray glue. Apply covering. If the edges of fabric fray, glue a ribbon over the edges as trim. Glue an envelope to inside of box lid if desired. Glue on buttons, trinkets, lace to decorate on the outside of the box.
Secure the lid:
*Decoupage is applying cutouts, usually of paper or fabric, on a surface with clear glue and then coating the surface and cutouts with several layers of clear glue or varnish. |
Site Map 800+ pages HOME greenlightWRITE.com CHILDREN TEDDY BEARS HOME
AskCaryn.com (teens)
|
If you like this information, please link to it instead of copying it. You may not display our content on a public bulletin board, ftp site, website, chat room or by any other unauthorized means. Thanks.
Copyright© 1999 - 2008 by Nancy Kamp, dba greenlightWRITE.com and Grace-Light.com. All Rights Reserved. International and US Federal Copyright Laws protect all material on this website, which may not be reprinted in any form in any media or hosted on any website. This document confers no rights whatsoever to its reader / recipient. No rights in any copyrighted material, whether exclusive or non-exclusive, may be transferred in the absence of a written agreement that is the product of the parties' negotiations, fully approved by independent counsel retained by Nancy Kamp and formally executed with manual signatures by all parties to the agreement pursuant to the statutory requirements of Section 204(a) of the Federal Copyright Act of 1976. Furthermore, anyone caught using our trademarks or copyrighted text, images, or jewelry and craft designs without permission will be reported to their billing company, their hosting company and any other related companies for account closure. We will also follow up with a copyright infringement lawsuit in accordance with the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
Using the information on this site and linked to this site is done at your own risk. No promises or guarantees of any kind are intended or implied.
a 
