Covered Shoe Box for Toys

Lauren needed some small boxes for her tiny little ponies and accessories.......so I found some shoe boxes and decided to cover them! I started with brown kraft paper, and basically cut it like I was going to wrap a present.

Then I got my acrylic ruler and a pencil and drew in lines going from each corner of the box out to the edge of the paper. Then looking at the box I figured out which sections I needed to cut out.

In this picture you will see on the left, I wrote "cut out" or "leave attached.

I used a rotary cutter and my ruler as a guide to cut out all the sections that needed to come off. What you end up with is what you see below.

Then I started attaching patterned paper. I lined up the edge of the patterned paper with the edge of the brown paper extending out in the other direction.....See below for visual.

I used glue stick and my brayer to make sure it was secure all the way to the edges and there weren't any bubbles. Then I just scored the patterned paper on all three sides to make some lines that I could see and I folded the corners in FIRST to make a nice corner and to be sure to cover all the brown paper.

Then I folded in the sides and attached them with gluestick......again using my brayer to smooth it out.

Of course, one of my dogs had to come be nosey and see what I was doing. Couldn't resist taking a picture of him!

I then just started attaching all the sides down in the same manner, just turned my box around when needed.

When I got to one of the sides, I attached the papers first and then I folded it into the box and attached it to the inside.

Covered Shoe Box for Toys Continued...

Here you see that I have attached the two sides to the box and now I am on the front of the box. (I am holding the lid up and the box is laying down on the front). I secure the patterned paper to the brown paper first doing the corners as I did on the sides to make a nice corner and then the sides as you see below.



In the picture above you see the excess paper folded up. This is what goes inside the box. But I first adhered it down with glue stick like you see below.



With the front and two sides attached I moved on the back and lid. I folded in and attached the little sections first as you see below, and then adhered patterned paper to those long curled up sides you see. I attached those as before and then I was done!


I decided to attach ribbon along the lid edge to pretty it up! :)


I held the ribbon in place with clips until the glue dried. The box looks just as you see it above, without other embellishments which I have to add now! LOL


Hopefully this was easy to understand........I just thought I would share what I did over the weekend!