This is the start of the cardbox , I had an old cardboard box that had a lid that goes on top so I turned it upside down and cut the hole for the cards on the bottom of the box , this is the box after i glued some batting on with spray adhesive , it was what I had handy to cover the writing on the box and it worked really well actually
this is the box after I cut some fabric that I found in a remnant bin at wal mart an entire bolt for five bucks I couldn't pass it up , the original plan was to make the box blue satin to match the ring pillow but things dont always work the way you want them to , especially with crafts , anyway I c ut the top piece first and made the opening for the cards and wrapped the fabric around and glues it in place , I am sorry for how crooked it is but I figure nobody will be noticeing that I hope , next i made the side one continuouse piece , I was trying to not have to many places where the box might show , I stuck the pieces to the batting with you guessed it more spray adhessive
after the fabric was good and set i sewed some lace along the edge of some satin blanket binding that I had left over from a quilt , then I hot glued the binding to the box thinking I could hide the spot where the fabric pieces did not meet , it kind of worked but not enough so then I found some plastic pearl beads that I have had for who knows how long , I hot glued the beads along the top edge of the box to hide the gap , this time it worked pretty well , then I hot glued some bows around the top to give the box at least a little of the light blue that has been in everything so far , I wanted to have cards written on the box I dont know why since I'm sure people would figure that out on their own , so i printed the word cards out on a piece of card stock with a cute background , after that I traced an oval shape around the word cards , it worked pretty well , then I glued it to the top above the slot , after all that something was missing so I set the cardbox inside the part that used to be the lid and glued the same fabic to it again to hide the writing , then to make it more finished I hot glued and rose garland around the bottom and thats it , I bet the entire project didn't cost me even ten bucks , the reason I wanted to make one is because it really ticked me off how much they charge for one in the stores , what a rip off , and they are all so plain
