Saturday, May 23, 2015

Slider pen boxes!

I love boxes! I've been working on a slider box to accommodate my Sakura microns, well some of them! Then the Diva Challenge #218 came along : White on Black or Found (object) and I decided to also make a box for Gelly Rolls. I have The Ultimate from Crafter's Companion which is awesome for making boxes. I also have the boxer board. You don't have to have either but it sure makes measuring easier! I ran across this video that is great to explain the concept so that you can make whatever size boxes you want. I figured out my measurements after watching the video. I did use wet glue instead (Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive). And I would suggest making your first box from scrap or inexpensive card or even paper, just to get the measurements right. I made a few samples before I was happy with the result. For my final versions, I used a heavyweight pearlescent cardstock for the drawers. For the wrap around of the Micron box (white) I used watercolor paper. For the Gelly Roll (black) box I used Strathmore Artagain paper. I cut and scored my paper before drawing, then used a fixative before gluing. Best of all, the boxes fit into my Art Bin so my pens can always be horizontal even when I'm toting them to class. I have the Art Bin Super Satchel Double Deep with the dividers thanks to a suggestion from fellow CZT Juliette Fiessinger. One of these days I may just fill up an entire section of it with boxes of pens and pencils! (ok, maybe more than one section.)
Pre-assembly
Tangles used: Nipa, Meer, Twing, Quandary, Printemps, Auraknot, Huggins, Cadent and Shattuck.

I'm thinking a class where I have the boxes pre-cut would be fun. We could tangle in class and I could show students how to assemble. Whaddaya think?

8 comments:

  1. These are lovely and you've set me off wanting to have a go myself. i like the fact that you have left plenty of white/black space. It sets the patterns off very well.

    As for the craft class idea, brilliant.

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  2. Love them so much! Now i am going to make one)

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  3. I really like your pencil box in black. It turned out beautiful. Looks like a wonderful idea and I may have to give it a try myself. Great work!

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  4. Both are wonderful! So fine Idea! Thank you for this lovely inspiration!

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  5. Love the boxes and thanks, I think, for the links to the fun tools. Spent too long drooling over all the goodies there but so far have kept the credit card under lock and key!

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  6. These are fabulous, Betsy!! (Followed the link you mentioned in a Mosaic post from 4 months ago - which I just encountered today!) Thank you for your generous sharing of ideas, photos & video. Have you taught this class yet? I'm thinking it would be GREAT. :)

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    1. No, I haven't taught this yet. I still think this would be great though... Thanks for your comments. Let me know if you make one!

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