Jewels In A Box

Whether you are looking for a place to put your jewelry or a cool present to surprise your friend at her birthday bash, creating a box on your own to place jewelry inside can be an easy, fun experience. You do not need to be an artist or a mechanical engineer to accomplish this task. All you need is to devote some time in order to collect the necessary instruments and materials, and then work with them based on your personal taste.

Any type of hand-made job, especially one that leaves space for creative action, entails the concept of inspiration. A writer has to find a subject, a painter a Muse, a song-writer has to experience or witness an event that is worth mentioning to others. Regardless of the craft one is into, getting inspired requires different mental states for each person. So, if you know what works for you-a walk in the park or a conversation might do the trick-then, it would be useful to note down the representations that come effortless into your mind. Walking on the beach, for example, leaves you with images of the sea, sun, shells, and sand. Collect objects and materials that produce the same feelings you experienced while walking on the beach and begin combining them so as to come up with your personally hand-crafted jewel box.

In fact, creating any type of box can be extremely easy with the variety of ready-to-use materials and instructions available today on the market and the Internet. If your imagination leads you to a jewel box that has a summer theme, like the one mentioned above, you can begin exploring your creative side by browsing your local craft store’s already made box shelves. Or, you might find a wooden box at the flea market that although it once was a lovely jewel box, it now looks outdated and does not have a personal touch. Of course, you can create your own box, out of paper, wood, plastic, metal, or any other type of materials you can cut, bend, or reshape. You compete only against your own creativity and ability to manage various materials, so you should better find the ones you can better handle and later move on to more demanding surfaces and designs.

So, let’s say you have found the perfect size of small blue paper box that is now empty and does not have any compartments to separate rings from earrings and necklaces from bracelets. Creating compartments is a piece of cake. Purchase some corrugated or simple thick cardboard and after measuring the inner height of the box’s surface, cut it into smaller pieces that fit vertically inside the box. How small or how big these pieces are depends on the sizes of the jewels you plan to place inside the box.
After figuring out the exact place of each small cardboard piece and before securing them into place, you should dress up, paint and/or color the box and its compartments according to your theme. Glossy magazine pages with summer images can become a beautiful collage to cover all of your box’s external or even internal surfaces, or you might select to use a simple one-color piece of paper of fabric to dress up you jewel box and its cardboard compartments. The precise combination of materials and images is subject to your personal taste and of course your hand-crafting abilities.

Upon completing the dressing up phase of box’s various the surfaces, you can begin gluing the cardboard pieces to the bottom of the box; just make sure each piece is firmly attached to a surface-of the box or another piece-from all sides except the one facing the box’s cover. Leave the box open for the glue to dry for approximately a day and in the meantime begin working on your box’s cover surface. At this stage you can be as creative as you wish; just keep in mind that your creation has to be not only beautiful to look at, but most importantly, functional. If you select to use natural shells (or perhaps create your own version of shells), small colored beans and gemstones, or ribbons and glitter powder, you have to remember that the top surface of your jewels box will be the most distinctive part in this project -so be careful not to overdo it, as it has to be stay together when used frequently. Going over the top with the embellishments you will choose, might create a very unique jewel box, but it will not be adequate for your jewel organization needs.

With such simple procedures you will manage to produce the jewel box of your dreams in no time, instead of purchasing a ready, boring jewel box. In addition, you will also save money as you will avoid purchasing an over-priced hand-made one offered by a seller at a store or online. A jewel box that is inspired by a fall’s leaf or a shiny star at night, can be a unique addition to your bedroom and a very convenient way to keep your girly treasures organized.

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