https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=blZhZo_ogys
Where a lady makes a sort of treasure chest with lollipop sticks. My mind started working and then....
I went outside into the shed and located my hot glue gun.
In the first picture you can already see the lollipop sticks in the corner, and I used gesso and some natural yarn I don't know the proper name of right now (how awkward is that).
In the video the lady secured her sticks with tape before she did the gluing and it makes absolutely perfect sense.
Here we can see the bottom and the lid nearly done, all thats missing are the fronts and backs.
And this is it. I used the same yarn stuff for the decorative handle for easy opening and closing. I used up all of my sticks, but if I find some more tucked away somewhere I will use them to glue a sort of guide rail inside so the lid will not sit on sideways. And if I get my hands on some pieces of chain I also will attach those into the lid to stop it from opening all the way and then falling backwards. Ah well, it all is a learning curve. Once I am a little less busy with the month of December I will make some dictionary page butterflies and attach them to my Rolo box. That might be in line with the sort of natural look it has now.
3 comments:
Suhweet! I like the way it looks with it's natural color, but I can also see doing maybe a Gelli print on the sticks. :)
Very creative! What size rolos are you collecting? Oh, and is burlap the word you're looking for?
Great idea! As Miss I said, your "natural yarn" is burlap. :) At least that is what we call it here in the US.
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