A casket for jewelry should be for every self-respecting beauty: how else to store your rings and earrings? Of course, you can go and buy ready, the benefit of modern manufacturers offer a wide choice. But if you show your imagination and your skills, it is quite possible to create a real masterpiece with your own hands.
Making caskets with your own hands
Variants of the boxes are huge: a cardboard base, decorated with a dense cloth, a wooden box decorated with beads with sequins ... An excellent option for small jewelry is a box of matchboxes, pasted with silk or taffeta. In general, this area of needlework is incredibly gracious, because it implies all sorts of techniques and styles.
For example, a casket from the book with your own hands: it is worth taking a book with a hard cover that is not very successful from a literary point of view, and in a few hours it will simply not be recognized. So, let's start: you need one book and one knife, preferably a special clerical. The first step is to glue the pages from the outside, thereby providing the side walls of the future casket. In order that the cover-cover does not get stuck, it's worth wrapping it with a film.
Cutting a niche inside, you need to clearly determine the size. As a rule, leave the first page, then with a sharp knife you need to cut the stencil. In the future, the inner walls of the future casket also need to be glued and treated with putty. It's time to give the jewelry box from the book an elegant look: here fantasy is not limited, you can paint, use the technique of decoupage or beads, you can glue it with fabric and decorate with artificial flowers.
Caskets for fun
A casket for jewelry by one's own hands is an excellent occasion to give vent to fantasies and create something outstanding, even if only for yourself. In addition, the design of caskets with their own hands allows you to significantly expand their skills in various handmade techniques. Having tried the new method, one should not expect an immediately amazing result, but the second box will be much more technically accomplished, and the third one can be gifted at all as a hand-made product, which today is preferred by many.
The box for the rings will give you pleasure in the work: it is known that such models can be of small and medium size, and the finish here is simply fantastic. To make the box of exquisite appearance it is possible to apply beads, tapestry with gold threads, felting technique.
A casket with your own hands made of fabric perfectly suited for both jewelry and jewelry, and for other purposes, it is only necessary to choose the right size. Of course, any fabric needs additional compaction - it can be cardboard or plywood - then the box will keep its shape and will last for many years. When working with tissues, you need to consider different facts, including the use of special adhesive compositions that do not appear on the tissues.
A popular option is also a cask of shells with their own hands: here there are different technologies, but the result is always amazing. All shells need to be treated with lacquer in order to keep them longer, you can also use paints to create the desired image. In general, this box always reminds of the summer, the seashore, and therefore carries a charge of good mood. Depending on how large the seashells are used, the appearance of the box can be both thin and massive. Any casket, made by own hands, will certainly bring a piece of heat into the house, this is one of the main values of such products.