This time my craft project grew out of necessity-- a place in the living room to put crossword puzzle stuff, instead of just laying there in a heaping mess.
I started out with what I think might be the UGLIEST photo/VCR box I've ever seen. I don't think I bought it, unless I thought I might cover it someday.
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| Extremely ugly storage box |
The living room is brown & blue with other accents, mostly green. I decided to use some of my scrapbook paper to cover the box, which turned out to be kind of a lousy idea, because the paper was really too thick and created problems later on. However, the paper itself is very pretty. It came from this pad, Die Cuts' "
The Mademoiselle stack":
Coincidentally, a few days ago the French government did away with "Mademoiselle" in official documents. But I digress.
The papers from the pad I used were an aqua floral on beige with green polka dots and a dark blue with Marie Antoinette:
I measured the sides and bottoms of the box, and on the backs of the papers (two each) I used a ruler and laid out the pattern. The dark blue, intended for the inside, ran a little short, so on one side I had to piece meal the papers. When gluing, I used modge podge and used clothes pins as clamps:
One of the most short-sighted things I did was not cut the papers longer than the sides, so that the corners and lip could be properly covered. I ended up having to cut extra paper in the floral to place around the lip. I cut the paper strips with a scalloped edge so that it would look more like a pseudo-ruffle and on purpose. I used some K&Company punch-out strips to cover the corners and (hopefully) hold the papers together and hide the "crack."
The final result looks okay-- not the greatest when you look up close, but still WAY better than the original!
