If you like to create interesting things and you are constantly looking for new ideas, you will be interested in this material. Make caskets with your own hands from scotch tape with lace. They turn out beautiful due to the correct round shape and decor that you use. How to create such a thing, read on.
Gift Ideas
Boxes of scotch tape with lace and other decor can be a great gift for mom, grandmother, friend. In such a souvenir it is pleasant to store jewelry and various women's little things. In addition to lace, the base can be made of beautiful paper or using decoupage technique. If you design the caskets in different styles, they will be suitable as a presentation for your birthday, and on March 8, and even for the New Year.
Used tools
To make jewelry boxes yourself from tape with lace, you will not need anything complicated. Prepare the following:
- Pencil or pen.
- Scissors.
- Glue or thermal gun.
- A needle with threads.
No matter which box you make, these items will come in handy for you anyway. Something extra may be needed to decorate the souvenir, but this will depend on the technique used.
Materials
To make do-it-yourself jewelry boxes from scotch tape with lace, you will need the following supplies:
- A bobbin (ring) from tape or any other cardboard pipe from a roll of paper, linoleum, etc. A long workpiece can be cut into pieces of different sizes, which will make it possible to make caskets of different heights.
- Cardboard, preferably thicker, for making the bottom and cover.
- Fabric for tightening the base.
- Satin ribbons (better for the color of the material) in order to close the joints and make these places invisible.
- Wide and narrow lace.
- Decorative elements (beads, quilling details, fabric flowers, embroidery with ribbons).
A box of scotch tape with lace do-it-yourself: a master class
The general sequence of actions will be as follows:
- Take the bobbin from the tape and wrap it with tape or thread. So you measure the length of fabric that will be required to fit the base.
- Cut a rectangle of measured length from the material. Its width should be greater than the height of the ring from the tape to bend the edges inward, making them neat.
- Make the bottom according to the technology described in the corresponding section.
- Lay in front of you a rectangle cut out earlier. From the inside, draw two lines corresponding to the upper and lower edges of the base blank. On both long sides, make incisions before reaching the drawn lines.
- Apply glue to the outside of the bobbin. Glue the base, and bend the upper and lower edges to the other side.
- Perform the inner surface using the same procedure, but without allowances.
- Stick on all connections satin ribbons in a tone basis.
- Make the cover any way you like below.
- Take a wide lace, measure the strip of the desired length, cut. Glue the item to the surface of the box.
- Narrow lace can be placed around the perimeter near the lid or bottom;
- Decorate the product at your discretion.
In addition to this method of creating the base, you can use another one, when you wrap the bobbin from scotch tape with lace, threading it through the ring and laying it in layers. Thus, both the inner and outer decorative surfaces of the casket are obtained immediately. After that, the bottom is glued and a lid is made.
You will get the same spectacular box of scotch tape with lace with your own hands. The photos posted in the article show how beautiful and varied such souvenirs can look. The tone of the base is used in both white and color. It is easy to make it both from fabric and from material with lace, and it’s not even difficult to crochet it. Combining several techniques, it is easy to create a spectacular gift.
How to make a bottom
In order for you to get a box of scotch tape with lace, created with your own hands taking into account all the wishes, you need to carefully and in size make the lower part. It is better to perform from two circles corresponding to the inner and outer diameter of the tape reel.
So do the following:
- Take the cardboard and circle the base blank on it along the inner and outer circles.
- Cut both elements. They can be glued as they are, if you have beautiful cardboard in a suitable color. It is only necessary to carefully process the edges of the workpieces with sandpaper or a regular nail file. But a box with a bottom made of the same fabric as the walls will look much more spectacular. In this case, proceed to the next step.
- Take the material that was used to tighten the base. Put circles on it and circle them, backing off about 2.5 cm.
- Cut both blanks.
- Follow the circumference, stepping about 1 cm from the edges, stitches.
- Do not fasten the thread, take a cardboard circle of the appropriate diameter (internal or external), put it on the fabric template and pull the fabric from the back of the fabric. Fasten and cut the thread.
- So, before you are two blanks, in which one side is flat, and the second with the assembly. Now insert the smaller circle inside the box assembly down. Joints are better to glue.
- Outside, glue a large circle with the assembly inward. The joints can be decorated with a satin ribbon to match the tone of the fabric.
How to make a cover fast
In order for you to get a full-fledged box of scotch tape with lace with your own hands, you must definitely complete the upper part, which can be closed and opened. The easiest option is when the cover is simply placed on top, but in this case it can fall off, which will be very inconvenient during operation. It is easy to solve this problem by attaching a small piece of satin ribbon to the lid and to the base. So that the edges of the element do not attract much attention, they can easily be beautifully decorated with beads or flowers.
The second method of manufacturing the cover
If you want to learn how to make a box of scotch tape with lace with a beautiful and comfortable lid of a higher height, study the following method. It will take a little longer, but the part will fit tightly into the box and hold on to it. The sequence of work will be as follows:
- Circle one or two inner diameters of the bobbin and several outer diameters on the cardboard. The thickness of the lid will depend on the number of blanks. If you want to make it taller, take cardboard thicker and make three or four large blanks.
- Glue the same elements together. You will get two thick circles of different diameters.
- Cut two blanks from the fabric in the same way as they did for the bottom, only take their dimensions taking into account the thickness of the lid elements.
- Both parts must be covered with material, as is the case with the lower part. If you want, you can make the top of the lid voluminous. It is enough only to put between the fabric and the cardboard blank a little padding polyester or foam blank.
- Parts are glued using the same technology with assemblies inside.
- The outer part of the lid can be decorated in any way. If you make embroidery, and it is more convenient to do it before installing the cardboard base, do not forget about it.
If necessary, you can make a cover put on the box. To do this, you need to make an additional strip and perpendicularly attach it along the edge of the round blank.
How to decorate a box of scotch with lace
First of all, lace itself can serve as a decor. Pick it in different shades and widths. Glue the base over them and make a voluminous decoration for the lid.
In addition, you can use other features:
- embroidery with satin ribbons or volumetric threads;
- kanzashi technique;
- scrapbooking, when the base is initially glued not with a fabric, but with beautiful textured paper with patterns, and lace strips are attached on top, for example, along the upper and lower edges of the casket;
- the same can be done using decoupage technique;
- use beads, flowers, beads.
You saw how easy it is to make caskets with your own hands from scotch tape with lace and other decor. Such souvenirs are obtained no worse than purchased ones, and most importantly - they do not require material investments. After all, everything is done literally from waste.