Beautiful Boxes: Fifty Boxes to Buy or Make, Decorate and Embellish as Gorgeous Gifts for Family and Friends

by Cheryl Owen (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.22

  A collection of 50 designs for making your own boxes which use readily available materials and various techniques including decoupage, quilting, patchwork, stencilling and rubber stamping. The projects include: Victorian-style wooden box, decorated with shells in a star pattern; Mexican-style wooden box painted bright blue with repousse design, studded with brass escutcheon pins; broken mirror mosaic box with red velvet lining; large wooden trunk covered in soft leather or painted, studded with brass upholstery tacks for an armoured effect; small wooden box covered with blue and white china shards finely grouted; brightly coloured pencil box; small round box with Victorian-style quilting on the lid; wooden sailor's box with a rope trim and handle; Mexican day of the dead box; wooden toy box; decoupage with stamps and envelopes; art postcards; Victorian-style floral posies; seed box; pressed flowers; Shaker-style box; pin cushion; small square jewel box; papier mache box in the shape of a cat; basket box; metal box made of aluminium foil and covered with repousse designs; pressed leaves and leaf skeletons; box for seaside holiday mementoes; nightlight holder; Swedish-style folk art; patchwork-style box in star or diamond shapes and box decorated with feathers.