Découpaged Box Shelf / Drawer Tidy

Last year I found these little boxes in my local Euro store and bought two of them.  I put them aside and forgot all about them until I was doing a clean-up of my craft studio recently and came across them again. As you can see from the pictures below, they originally had some black printed motifs on the inside sections of the box.
 

I decided it was time to pretty them up so I painted one of them taupe using some chalk paint.  It took a few coats to cover the black printed motifs but eventually they disappeared.  I used two different types of napkins and some floral paper to découpage the interior sections of the box, a different pattern for each section.  I sealed it with a couple of coats of sealant and it is now ready to hang on a wall as mini shelves or on a desk or kitchen counter top as a tidy, or even a jewellery box. I think this one looks real cute.  I've still got the second one to do so don't forget to drop by to have a look real soon.

Bye for now

Découpaged & Painted Trinket Box

I found these little wooden trinket boxes in a local craft store and thought they'd be great for a couple of quick découpage projects.  I used some owl paper napkins that I had been given recently as a gift and I mixed up some acrylics to make the pink colour that I used to paint it with.  On the inside I used acrylics 'linen' with 'gold' around the edges.  The gold was new at the time and I was itching to give it a go, its a great colour for all kinds of projects as it's really 'goldy' - it actually looks like real melted down gold.

I painted the box pink first (two coats) - the great thing about acrylics is they dry really quickly so while the paint was drying I cut out the owls and got my glue ready.  As you can see in the photos I glued the owls over the opening and when dry I used a craft knife to cut along the edge to separate the top and the bottom of the box.  After the inside was painted I couldn't resist painting some gold edging around each owl!!!  A few coats of sealant afterwards and it was finished.

What do you think I should use for my next trinket box?  Let me know by clicking on 'Comment' at the end of this post.