Make a Beautiful Jewelry Box

Or a box for trinkets or love letters or whatever. (Coupons?)

I used a wood cigar box and several Eco paper Arts supplies. You can make it as simple or elaborate as you like.  

You'll need: buttons or old jewelry pieces, gesso, cigar box, paint brush, scrapbook paper, and our eco embellishments (butterfly, hinges, and boho strips)

Basic steps:

• paint with white gesso or a color to match your decorations, dry
• glue your choice of background paper on top. I used our Ciao Bella steampunk scrapbook paper, 
• tear pieces of the paper and glue to sides
• use a script stamp and dark ink to stamp on top and sides of box randomly (or handwrite scribbles)
• paint your embellishments: Gypsy Soul Butterfly of Gears, Gypsy Soul Hinge Straps Set, and part of Planet Earth Mixed Media Chips - Boho 
• I used four of our Izink Nature paints to give the embellishments a burnt red look with highlights: blood orange, orange, yellow, and jungle green 
• after embellishments are dry, glue them to box -- I used E6000 
• glue buttons on embellishments and top of box
• add chain (broken necklace) to butterfly -- run through holes in wings and glue