Do you have an empty box at home? It is possible that you might have received some interesting boxes during last Christmas holidays. If not that perhaps a candy box or any other unique box will also do. You don't need much to make handmade trinket boxes for your dear ones, on this Valentines Day. Now you must be wondering, why do I have to make a box myself when you can get a variety of ready-made trinket boxes in the market and online stores? This is because a handmade trinket box will have a special feel attached to it while presenting it as a gift to your loved one, this Valentines Day.
Besides this, you will get an opportunity to do something special and unique for your Valentine this time and let him/ her know that they are special. Now you may be wondering, how to make trinket boxes yourself? You can easily find a large variety of craft books, online articles as well as magazines, from where you can find the ways of creating a trinket box yourself. But in order to do away with your problems, we have come up with easy ways of preparing a handmade trinket box.
- To make a trinket box, primarily you need to tear the tissue paper into small pieces and paste it outside the box with the help of a glue or special decoupage gum.
- After pasting the tissue to the box, cover the outside of the box completely. Once you have covered your box, do not begin decorating it immediately. Begin your decoration only when your box is dry.
- You can embroider the exterior of your box with various Valentines Day pictures, cards as well as love messages.
- To decorate it in a better way, paste love stamps or cute characters pictures on your box.
- You can also add lace, stars, hearts, etc by coating them outside the box with the help of glue.
- Once you are done with the exterior, it's time to focus on the interior. You can cover the interior of your box with a bright paper or a fabric. Besides this you can also add a variety of ornaments like a gold angel, beads, heart pieces etc.
- To make your interior more attractive, you can add the pictures of chocolates, candles, and other romantic stuff. You can get these pictures from a magazine, or you can cut it from a printed picture book.
- When you are done with your box, you can finally add laces or ribbons to your box and use it as handles. Apart from this, you can also utilise buttons as well as other ornaments in order to decorate your box.
Preparing a handmade trinket box for valentines and presenting it as a Valentines gift, will surely make them feel special. Moreover when they will get to know that the gift is made just for them, your relationship will become stronger.
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