Elena Cherepnina

The box is very useful thing, because you can store any household trifle in it: jewelry, threads, needles, buttons, keys, business cards, etc. Probably, there is such a product in every home. A beautifully designed stylish box can also successfully emphasize the style of a room, living room or bedroom and become an integral part of the interior.

A hand-decorated box will be a wonderful gift for a friend, colleague or relatives for a birthday or wedding, and the decoration process itself can later turn into an exciting hobby.

It is also worth noting that such a hobby perfectly develops imagination, memory and has a positive effect on the nervous system. If you have an old wooden box at home that has long lost its former attractiveness, do not rush to send it to the trash, because even a person who has never done decoration before can stylishly decorate a thing with his own hands.

Preparation

Before you start decorating a wooden box, you need to prepare it for this. So, if there are residues of paint, varnish, glue or paints on the outside walls, clean them so that the surface of the material is as even and smooth as possible. If the surface is not too smooth, it can be sanded.

After that, the outer surface should be degreased so that the applied new material holds firmly. This can be done by wiping the chest with a napkin soaked in alcohol or vodka. After that, let the product dry for 10-12 hours or dry it with a hair dryer.

Decoration

There are a huge number of options for decorating boxes. We offer for your consideration the most popular and interesting of them, and you can already supplement them, modify them, guided by your own imagination.

Painting with acrylic paints

Of course, on the first attempt to create a brilliant masterpiece with your own hands, you are unlikely to succeed, since this type of art requires skill and certain skills.

But if you try, the result will certainly impress not only you, but also your loved ones.

We will need:

• acrylic paints for decoration;
• primer for acrylic paints;
• fine pattern brush, flat synthetic brush;
• pencil, eraser, palette;
• masking tape.

First you need to prepare a sketch. The simpler the drawing, the easier it will be for you to apply paint. You can come up with something yourself, or you can look for interesting drawings on the Internet or books.

First, we draw a sketch on a piece of paper, focusing on the size of the box. For convenience, repeating elements can be cut out of hard paper and subsequently applied to the walls and cover of the product.

We carefully treat the leveled surface with a primer for acrylic paints and let it dry properly. After that, we proceed directly to the painting. First, we cover the surface of the box with a base, dry it, and only then apply a drawing to it using templates. Now very carefully, with the help of special thin brushes, paint the picture.

If in the process of work you suddenly made a mistake (and this happens even with professionals), do not be discouraged.

Acrylic paints have a opaque effect, so a new layer of the desired paint can be applied over the blot without any damage to the pattern.

Advice. If you doubt your abilities, before applying the pattern to the box, practice on another surface - for example, on a piece of paper.

The finished painted box must be thoroughly dried. If the result impressed you and you want to make the decor durable, you can varnish it for furniture.

Kanzashi

Kanzashi (or kanzashi) is japanese art hair ornaments. It is based on the ability to fold flower petals from ribbons, pieces of fabric and glue them to the base. Today, the kanzashi technique is used all over the world to decorate interior elements, decorative pillows, curtains, women's handbags, and jewelry boxes.

With ribbons, you can decorate not only a wooden box, but also a box made of any other material - plastic, glass, clay, etc. Boxes decorated with kanzashi look very rich, spectacular and elegant.

We will need:

First of all, you should glue the box - the very basis of the craft - with a cloth or ribbons. To do this, generously grease the workpiece with glue and stick the fabric.

While the base dries, proceed to the preparation of decorations. From ribbons and pieces of fabric, you can make not only flowers, but petals, miniature fruits, etc. You can decorate them as you like, using beads, buttons or rhinestones for this. Larger ribbon crafts should be glued to the lid, and smaller ones to the sides of the box.

It is worth noting that it is best to decorate the box with ribbons made of expensive fabrics - satin, velvet, silk, as these materials look the most elegant and rich. But it’s not worth buying cuts for these purposes - you can use the trim left after sewing clothes, curtains or curtains.

If you want to decorate a wedding box (for money or rings), you can use the following idea. Paste the body with white or ivory satin, and decorate the lid with pink lilies or roses and white or light green ribbons.

Marine theme

Probably on holiday sea ​​coast, you have repeatedly met merchants offering various souvenirs made from natural materials. Among such crafts, as a rule, there are always beautiful caskets decorated with shells.

Few of us thought that such a present could be easily made on our own, without throwing out fabulous money to southern craftsmen.

Since ancient times, man has been striving to decorate the space around him, altering it according to his needs and artistic taste. Today, this quality is embodied in the decoration of various household items, in particular, caskets. ordinary thing becomes unique, authorial, acquires individual appeal. She pleases the eye and can become a good gift for a person who will appreciate its beauty and the efforts of the master who created it.

Variety of techniques

As a rule, the main material for blanks for caskets is wood. In order to get a high-quality finished product, it is necessary to pay great attention to the initial stage of work and properly prepare the material for further decoration. First you need to carefully sand the surface and cover it with acrylic primer, or primer "Glevkas" for cardboard wood. After priming, it is recommended to process the workpiece again with sandpaper. You can repeat this process several times, achieving perfect surface smoothness. After that, you can proceed directly to decorating - the choice of method depends only on your desire and direction of creative thought.

An interesting technique is decoupage, with the help of which any box will turn into a work of art. This method has been known to mankind since the Middle Ages and was very popular in Europe in the past centuries. Today, masters are also passionately engaged in decoupage, the meaning of which is to decorate by transferring special pictures to the product.

If you are interested in creating embossed surfaces, then you should look into materials such as acrylic embossing paste, modeling gels or crystal paste. With their help, you can create various textures and unusual effects. In addition, all these materials well accept small decorative elements, for example: pebbles, shells, coins, beads, etc.

You can decorate the box using various murals, from traditional folk (Khokhloma, Mezen, Gorodets, etc.) to point to poiint. In the first case, it is good to use acrylic-based waterproof tempera paints, and in the second case, acrylic contours. As a pattern, you can use both existing ethnic ornaments and any drawings stylized for the desired technique.

Scrapbooking: attention to detail

The most popular method of decorating boxes is scrapbooking. With the help of a variety of elements: fabric, paper, ribbons, beads, threads, you can transform the surface of an object. In addition to the original appearance, the box acquires relief, texture and texture. Before starting work, you need to make a sketch-drawing on paper in order to know how the finished product will look like.

First, the surface must be prepared: cleaned of dirt, dust and greasy spots. Then, depending on the idea, you can close it with cloth or paper, which will give a certain color or texture to the box. Guided by artistic taste and personal preferences, you should gradually add decorative elements. Using decoupage glue, they can be attached to the surface of the box.

The quilling technique requires perseverance and patience from a person, for which, as a result, he will be rewarded with the beautiful appearance of the box. For it, you will need strips of paper 5-6 mm wide. They can be colored or white, made by yourself or bought ready-made. A special quilling needle will help you accurately and accurately twist the paper strips. You should also take care of the glue, preferably transparent, so that after drying it is not visible, it should quickly grab the paper. The essence of quilling is to create a relief from paper strips, the pattern of which depends only on the artist's imagination. To decorate the surface of the box, glue them with paper so that the glue has good adhesion and securely fastens the strip.

Do you have a lot of jewelry and would like to store them on the dressing table in a beautiful box? Or are you looking for something else to diversify your home interior? Then you should stop by our page, and we will tell you in detail how to make a jewelry box with your own hands. Consider the most affordable and popular options.

Content:

Thick cardboard box

In order to create a feminine and elegant casket, you will need the following materials:

• milk bags (2 pcs.);
• scissors;
• kraft paper and thick cardboard;
• glue, preferably PVA;
• ribbon;
• magnets (2 pcs.)
• wood beads (for legs), beads;
• wrapping

Master Class. Step-by-step instruction

Step 1. Cut out cubes of the same size from milk bags without a bottom.

Step 2. Take one part of the shoe box and paste the resulting cubes, glue them together. These will be the cells of the box.

Step 3 Glue the resulting box with wrapping paper, and the bottom and inner walls with kraft paper.

Step 4 We make a spectacular "wrapper" for our box:

Instead of beads, you can use beads, glass beads and even rose petals, dried or artificial. Decorate the box to your taste and style, showing imagination and desire.

Examples of beautiful jewelry boxes

It is actually quite simple to create a beautiful box on your own, you just need to pay attention to the objects around you at home and turn on your ingenuity.

The following products are examples:

From the packaging for cotton buds

To create such a cute little thing, take an empty round package from cotton buds. Cut out pieces of colored fabric according to the size of the bottom, walls and lid of the future box and carefully glue everything with colorless glue. You can decorate the box with beads, feathers, various ribbons.

If you have a child in the house, ask him to paint the box himself. Such a cute casket will look both in your bedroom and in the nursery.

It’s good when the needleworker is “on you” with knitting needles and knitting threads. With the help of them, you can knit an outfit for a jewelry box in a very original way.

From a candy box

If you love sweets and accidentally left a plastic box from them - rejoice: a pretty box for women's items is almost on your table.

Take a transparent package, sand it with sandpaper, and then cover with acrylic primer (you can make uneven layers and squiggles). The next step will be painting.

Let the box dry and start decorating.

Design option:

• take a napkin with sea patterns, cut them out and glue them. Use decoupage glue.
• open the resulting product of arts and crafts with a transparent layer of acrylic varnish.

From a shoe box

To do this, prepare:

• boxes from under any shoes (2 pieces);
• velvet of any color;
• interlining;
• a small piece of crepe satin;
• golden braid made of artificial leather;
• sponges for dishes or foam rubber;
• pen or pencil;
• matches (needed to burn the fabric);
• newspapers (useful for patterns);
• stapler (staples should be 20 mm);
• iron;
• ruler, adhesive tape (not wide);
• scissors, sheets of cardboard;
• iron.

To decorate such a casket, it is advisable to opt for designer cardboard, which can either be purchased ready-made or created with your own hands.

From empty matchboxes

Making such a casket, as in the photo, is quite easy. You should take only a few matchboxes and glue them in pairs to form some small chests of drawers. To make the base perform its functions, choose thick cardboard and make squares.

He will make a dressy box colored paper with beads, beads and ribbons, stickers, button appliqué. It can be originally tied up with multi-colored woolen threads.

From unwanted books

The most unusual and aesthetic are caskets of books that have served their purpose.

To do this, remove all sheets, leaving only the frame (depart from the edge 2 cm). All pages should form thick walls, for this glue them around the entire perimeter. The base is ready. Any little things will come in handy in decoration: beads, beads, parts of old hairpins or belts, artificial flowers, lace, trimmings of beautiful fabric, etc.

Despite the fact that shop windows offer a large number of jewelry boxes made of all kinds of materials, the desire to make it with your own hands does not disappear. After all, this is not only a tribute to one’s talent and skill, but also the desire to have original thing that no one can find. In addition, it is of great importance that a hand-made box will have exactly the size that is so necessary to place all the jewelry.

The box is made by hand in two stages:

1) Creation of the box itself from improvised materials;

The material for it can be scotch rings, wooden blocks or baguette trimmings, old newspapers, shoe boxes, and other improvised materials.

Tape reel box

Tape reel box

If a small box is enough for jewelry, then you can make it from a paper tape reel. Size finished product will correspond to its diameter and height.

For work you will need:
reel freed from adhesive tape; thick cardboard; pencil; scissors; glue (preferably PVA).

For the bottom and lid of the future box, you need to make cardboard blanks. It is enough to attach the reel to a sheet of cardboard and circle with a pencil. We circle the resulting circles with another circle, the diameter of which is 3-4 centimeters larger than the previous one. These are the future rays with which the circles will be glued to the bobbin. Don't make them too wide. The narrower they are, the more accurately the bottom will stick. The end result looks like this:

Before gluing the bottom to the bobbin, it is necessary to draw along the fold line with a non-sharp object, you can use the edge of tweezers or a metal ruler. This will help to gently bend them. To hide the petals on the side, you need to stick a cardboard tape over them, corresponding in length and width to the side of the reel.

For the lid, you will need to cut a strip, slightly longer than the volume of the reel and half its height wide. In order for the lid to fit well, not to be too large, you need to wrap the future box with a strip and glue its edges. When the side of the lid is dry, you need to glue the top to it in the same way as was done with the reel.

To strengthen the rigidity of the bottom and lid, you can glue one more layer of cardboard inside, cut along the inner diameter of the reel. The finished box is decorated with your own hands using the decoupage technique, it can be painted with acrylic paints and varnished or glued over the entire surface with a self-adhesive film with a pattern that imitates natural material: wood, stone.

DIY wooden jewelry box

The manufacture of such a box is more laborious than in the previous version, but it will also serve much longer than paper. For work you will need:

pencil, ruler;
a long plank 10 millimeters thick, 10 centimeters wide, made of soft wood: pine, alder, linden; a plate for the bottom and lid, its width is equal to the width of the finished product; hand saw with fine teeth or electric jigsaw; knife; sandpaper; PVA glue (it is better to take construction) or carpentry "Moment".

Having decided on the size of the box, you need to cut out two blanks from the plank, equal to its length and width. At the end of each, it is necessary to make a 45-degree bevel with a knife so that the walls fit nicely. The depth of the bevel is equal to the width of the plank.

Before gluing the side parts, you need to make sure that the bevels fit snugly, without gaps. Otherwise, they must be adjusted with a rough sandpaper. The sides are glued together gradually. After each subsequent gluing, it is necessary to check the internal angle between them. It must be equal to 90. Otherwise, the result may be any shape, but not an even rectangle.

There are two bottom options:

if the finished product will be pasted over with paper or cloth, then the blank for the bottom is taken equal to the size of the box and glued so that its side parts are visible;

Wooden box covered with paper

if a jewelry box with your own hands is covered only with varnish or paint, then it will look more beautiful when the bottom is hidden inside it. For this, a blank is taken, in length and width smaller than the size of the box by two thicknesses of the plank. For example: with a box size of 10x10 cm and a wall thickness of 1 cm, the bottom should be taken 8x8 cm.

Lacquered wooden box

The manufacture of the cover can also be in two versions:

cut the workpiece and install it on the hinges. Best Option lid fastenings - a piece of piano loop, the length of which is a couple of centimeters shorter than the length of the box. All ends of the boards visible on the finished product must be carefully processed with sandpaper;

glue the lid to the box and, after drying, carefully cut it off with an electric jigsaw, retreating down the body by one and a half to two centimeters.

A wooden jewelry box is decorated with all known methods: varnishing, painting, decoupage, pasting with oracal, fabric, leather.

Do-it-yourself box from a baguette

Luxurious baguette box

Boxes made of a baguette, a material for picture frames, look chic and rich. It is made of wood or plastic. Plastic is soft, can be cut and processed no worse than wood. You can buy a baguette in art salons, having previously determined how long the blank is needed. The principle of manufacturing such caskets is identical to working with wooden blanks.

DIY jewelry box made of papier-mâché

Papier-mâché box

What is papier-mâché, how to work with it, we know from the school bench. The advantage of this material lies in the variety of forms of the finished product. It is enough just to find the original blank of the required shape to create an original box.

For work you will need:
newspapers or thin office paper; vaseline or any cream; scissors, brushes; PVA glue or wallpaper.

Do-it-yourself papier-mâché box

The base must be covered with petroleum jelly or cream, so that later you can easily remove the papier-mâché. The first layer of thinly torn paper must be wetted and covered with the entire surface of the base. Paper for the second and each subsequent layer is carefully smeared with glue. You need to make sure that there are no missed sections. It is convenient to alternate, for example, layers of newspaper and white paper. How better paper impregnated with glue - the stronger the papier-mâché will turn out. The number of layers is optional. After complete drying, the blank of the box must be removed from the mold and prepared for decoration. If it is a painting with paints, then it must be coated with an acrylic primer. In addition to painting, a do-it-yourself box can be decorated with beads, ribbons, buttons, figurines made of plastic or salt dough.

Chinese papier-mâché box

If the basis for papier-mâché was a round object, the lid was created together with the box, then it is necessary to remove it carefully, having previously drawn a cut line with a pencil. If the layout was created without a lid, then after removing it from the base, you need to align the edges with scissors. The lid is attached to the box before being treated with a primer. Holes for the connecting cord can be made with a paper punch.

Decorated box with their own hands is opened with varnish. It is better to use an acrylic-based varnish purchased at an art salon. Artists cover their canvases with this varnish to avoid contamination and fading of paint.

DIY box from a bamboo napkin

For work you will need:
bamboo napkin; thread with a needle, PVA glue; scissors, cardboard, finishing cloth; magnetic fastener.

Cut out the sides of the future box of arbitrary shape from cardboard.

Sew or glue decorative fabric to them on both sides, leaving a small allowance for the seams. A bamboo napkin can also be decorated with a fabric on the side that will be inside the box. The sides can be sewn or glued to the napkin, leaving some part free.

The clasp can be made in the form of an eyelet and a button, or you can purchase a magnetic clasp at an accessories store.

So that the jewelry box does not get dirty and for a long time had a neat appearance, it is better to open it with acrylic varnish.

Several ways to decorate boxes

Below are photos of jewelry boxes made in different techniques decoration.

For lovers of rigor and minimalism in everything, it is enough to make the box monophonic, covering it with paint and protective varnish.

Decoupage decoration technique has recently become fashionable, but has already become very popular. A large assortment of illustrations for decoupage, up to images of paintings by great artists, is produced on special napkins. You can use ordinary napkins, magazine illustrations, and even wrapping paper. You will also need sharp scissors, a few brushes, PVA glue, paints, acrylic lacquer. Before starting work, the surface must be primed with acrylic paint or glue. Gently smooth each element of the image with a brush dipped in glue until it is completely glued to the surface and air bubbles come out from under it.

Proportions for salt dough: 1 part flour (the cheapest without additives) to 3 parts salt, mix and add water until the consistency of soft plasticine. Decor elements from dough, unlike putty, are first made and then glued to the surface.
After drying, the decor must be covered with two layers of white acrylic paint. Painting is also best done with acrylic. After drying, apply one or two coats of varnish.

Below are photos of jewelry boxes decorated with beads, sea ​​shells, cloth and ribbons:

Jewelry box decorated with beads

A handmade box will not only decorate your interior, giving it a personality, but can also be a great gift for any celebration. And the material for its manufacture will be any household item or donated by nature. The main thing is a little imagination and perseverance.