I bought a pencil case at the dollar store to take my pens and scissors and miscellaneous stuff in for the Tim Holtz cruise I'm going on. The more I looked at the little plastic case the more I thought it needed some help. I grabbed some scraps of paper and some matte gel medium and started pasting. When the entire thing was covered I let it dry and then rubbed some Ranger Ink on it to antique it and I thought it looked pretty good. I punched the letters for my name from Tim's alphabet dies.
I had saved a "Laughing Cow" cheese container to do something with and decided to cover it with scraps too so I could put it in my box to carry little clips and things. Did I check to see if it fit? Of course not...I just started pasting. When it was done and I went to put it in the pencil box it didn't fit. A quick search around my shop and I found an Altoid tin and altered it. It fits just fine and is now filled with some clips and pins. What a great way to use up some old paper scraps and make something ordinary a little special. I wasn't sure if the gel medium would stick to the cheap plastic on the pencil box but it did fine.
Oh my gosh! You are going on HIS cruise?? I'm pea green with envy ;-) I can't wait til you share all the exciting stuff were able to see and do!! I know you'll have fun and the rest of us will still be here waiting, drooling.....you are one lucky girl.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Linda! I will be drooling the whole time you are gone.
ReplyDeleteI love what you did with the pencil box & tin! I have a couple of laughing cow boxes in the refer, and may copy what you did, clever girl!
Big hugs, Pat
Love what you did. Linda(cricutdemowa)
ReplyDeleteI love these Margaret. Yes, fantastic way to use paper scraps and I also have lots of suitable containers. Just need to see if my gel medium will do the job too.
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