Hi crafty friends!! Jeanne here excited to share my 1st project for the month of November!! We are given some choices of themes to chose from at the beginning of our term on what we want to make for our projects. Then our lovely Design Team coordinator Jessica assigns them to us on our monthly calendars. So this month for my 1st project I was assigned a "Pencil" theme. I couldn't decide on what I wanted to make, one would think a theme like this is super easy, but for some strange reason this was a little tough for me , I don't know why!! Then it popped into my head that hey I used to love pencil boxes and stationary sets when I was young. I have a few empty cigar boxes I had gotten a long time ago. I thought this one was a great size. So here it is……..my Unicorn Mini Stationary/Pencil Box!!!!
This project did not take very much time to do. It's nice to be able to change something up from something simple to super cute and bright. I began altering the box by applying gesso to the edges of the box, I had previously removed some of the paper that was on it using an X acto knife. I then began measuring all sides of the box, inside and out. I had purchased the small trio of small notebooks at Walmart. They were perfect size and of course matched great to the paper I used that I had in my paper stash. I purchased this 12X12 paper pad at Michaels. If it looks familiar I had also used this when I made some Rolodex cards earlier in the year.
I decided I would use the adhesive from Helmar Premium Craft Glue because I wanted to show how I was able to use the same adhesive for a variety of items from the paper, to lace, flat back pearl embellishments, and much more.
So once I cut all the papers for each area of the box, I adhered them , I adhered a very thin white lace along the front of the lid and two sides of the box. Just to add a little character. I mean who can't use a little lace even on a pencil box! I then made a small pocket for the lid and cut up some of the tag cutouts from the paper pad. I also cut out a thin piece of heavy card stock and then covered it with matching paper from the pocket to separate the pencils from the paper pads, and added a small stamp, some washi tape and big paper clip just for added decor. I picked out some matching flowers and adhered them on a small upper left corner as well as to the small pocket on the lid. I fussy cut out a cloud with an adorable sentiment from one of the tags I had cut to put in the small pocket. Lastly added an ivory half back pearl to the lid as a somewhat knob.
So as you can probably tell this was simple to put together. Its very easy to come up with projects to make when you have items in your stash laying around and not having to run to a store to purchase things. I love to alter items that I can recycle and make useful once again. I hope that you like what I've come up with for this theme and you will check out my team members blog posts as well. Please check out Helmar Adhesives online store and also their online Australian store
I also thought I would include a link to retailers in the US where you can purchase Helmar products, click here
Thanks once again for viewing my first project for November and be on the lookout for the 2nd one coming very soon!! Meanwhile I hope you will check out my Design Team mates projects here on the blog and other social media sites. Talk soon!! xoxo, Jeanne
