Guess who came over this week?
Lorajean from Lorajean’s Magazine!
I love this girl’s style. Her photography is serenely beautiful and she has artistic talent flowing from her fingertips. Not only that, but she is a great mother and such a sweet, genuine person.
I am totally going to be making some of her origami boxes soon.
Lorajean brought two of her three children. Her six year old, Lizze, is a whiz with the glue gun. No joke. I was super impressed.
Lizzie made her chocolate box pretty much by her self. She even has her own blog and posted about her chocolate box here!
Future crafting blogging star right there.
So onto today’s project…
You take a chocolate box. I got some $1 ones from Walmart…some bigger ones with cheap chocolate and some smaller ones with better chocolate.I found the smaller boxes to be better and easier to work with.
Grab your hot glue gun and some lace, buttons, fabric, paper, whatever scraps you have and decorate away.
Optional: Cut out some cardboard from a cracker or cereal box. Add polyester quilt batting if you desire and cover with fabric. If you go with this option you have to put some kind of lace or ribbon around the perimeter. Placing a whole new piece of cardboard on the lid gives you an inevitable and unavoidable gap that lace covers perfectly.
I decided to get cheesy (Valentine’s Day tends to bring out my corny side) and give all my boxes names. Meet:
I hot glued a raw edged mustard yellow {even though it looks brown in the picture} Lucy flower on some grey felt and added navy blue lace. I quite like this one. I might just keep it.
My favorite one:
I got this satin-y fabric from my mom’s stash. I was sure it was some kind of polyester blend and decided to curl up the edges with a candle; but it burned at the slightest touch from the flame instead of curling. I guess it was real silk!
Next…Add red lace fabric over the top of a pink cotton fabric and you get…
This one is sweet and simple…
A strip of purple paper around the middle ‘ring’ helped bring this box’s look together.
And last…
I just covered the top with grey felt, added a grey rose and glued on some royal purple lace that I trimmed back. I added purple paper to the middle again so it wouldn’t clash.
It so happened that this one looked the most appetizing to my two year old. I caught Reid red handed eating the chocolates two fists at a time. Ha! :)
And here is the motley crew all together:
It was so fun to take boring chocolate boxes and make them look personalized and pretty! Thanks for coming over to craft Lorajean!
I just gave your blog a stylish blogger award.
See more here:
http://linsensprojekter.blogspot.com/2011/01/stylish-blogger-award.html
most of it is in danish, but use google translate;-)
love that they are still valentine boxes, yet, unconventional! every year when we were kids, my dad would buy us a heart box with candy in it…one of my favorite memories!
Gorgeous!!
Love this idea. I see myself making a few and filling them with cake balls in wrappers. How cute would that be. As always thanks for the inspiration.
The little kiddos always want their hands in everything. The boxes are gorgeous and my husband doesn't get my crafting most of the time. I really like the gray flower one.
that's so fun! i love lorajean's blog! So cool that the two of you got to hang out. I wish I had a blog friend to hang out with!
I LOVE your new ones!! :) I laughed so hard at you husbands response I choked! Ha ha! I said monthly before but maybe we should do this weekly!! (kidding …sort of.)
I also finally posted some pictures of my distressed canvases I did on my blog. I even used a picture you took of baby W. It was fun and turned out cute. Now to hang them up for good.
those are some well-dressed chocolates! Such a fun idea.