A doll box or a regular chest is a beautiful and unusual product in which you can store various jewelry and bijouterie. In skillful hands, it can turn into a designer interior object. How to create a blank, focusing only on a stencil, what ready-made box patterns are there and what are the best master classes? More on this below.
How to make a pattern
It is easy to make, using the diagram below or any other diagram taken from a handicraft magazine or master class. It is worth noting that, as a rule, it consists of 22 parts. These include legs with a front part and a back, side legs with a lid that has a front and back part.
Also included are the sides of the lid with the lobes, the outer part of the box, the inner part of the box, the front and back parts, and the bottom. Depending on the design, parts can be added or removed.
Creating blanks using a template
Creating a blank using a stencil is a great idea. At the moment, many manufacturers produce ready-made sets of products called a pattern box, which you can create with your own hands. There are also simple stencils that act as a calculated pattern. These stencils can be used to create a blank from wood, cardboard, and metal.
It is worth noting that the wooden blank is a set of parts for creating a classic Russian box. It will serve for a long time and be a great gift for others.
As for the cardboard model, its main advantage is the ability to make a product of different shapes and with unusual decorative details. One scheme of such a popular blank is presented below.
Metal is a material that is almost never used to create boxes. But such products do exist. For them, blanks are made in the same way as for wood. The difference in the decorative part may be that such products are usually decorated in such a way that it is impossible to understand what material they are made of. As for the wooden model, there are minimal decorations. Sometimes, various wooden patterns are simply made.
Decorating options
It should be noted that decorating a chest is perhaps the most interesting activity to create not only a unique product, but also an authentic one. According to the pages of step-by-step master classes in fashion magazines and drawings, the best decoration for such an element is a small decorative satin ribbon, thread, twine and textile fabric.
Please note! First, a frame is created from wood, plastic, cardboard or metal, and then the created model is covered with textile fabric. Often, a kind of cover is made and decorated with a ribbon. The cover, by the way, is easier to sew.
Corrugated or regular colored paper is the most popular way to decorate an adult box or a chest for a newborn baby's things, regardless of what it is made of. In this case, needlewomen simply glue the product and make unusual shapes on it.
Often, when craftsmen simply create wooden boxes with embroidery from various expensive types of wood, they cut out curls on them and cover them with varnish. Some craftsmen go even further and add glitter to the usual varnish. This is how you get a box with a beautiful, durable, shiny coating.
Interesting master classes
At the moment, the best master classes on creating boxes from different materials can be found from various bloggers and on the pages of handicraft magazines.
From postcards
A box of postcards can be made with your own hands using a simple scheme. All the user needs to create it is to take postcards based on the calculation that one wall will take two parts connected together. Then you will need to glue them together and decorate them to your taste.
From cardboard
Forming a cardboard box is practically no different from creating the same product, only from postcards, since it is the same material. The only difference is in the color scheme and thickness of the material. It is worth noting that such products require a strong base for storing various small things, so it is necessary to take cardboard, which is used to form boxes, as the material. It has a porous and thick surface, and this will be ideal for construction.
Please note! There are many design options. It can be a square, rectangular, round or cellular model. Everything will depend on the owner's imagination.
Made of plywood
Plywood is the material that should be decorated as naturally as possible when creating a box. This can only be done by wood cutting. Since many needlewomen do not have this skill, you can use a simple purchased set to create the product.
In the kanzashi technique
Kanzashi is a fashionable technique that became popular two years ago. You can use cardboard, a glass jar or even a plastic container as the basis for the box. Then you will need to take a glue gun and satin ribbons.
Please note! Next, all that remains for the user is to connect several satin ribbons together and fold them so that petals are obtained. Each petal must be glued, moving in a circle. This will result in an original decoration of the pattern box in life size.
Mom's Treasures Box
The "Mom's Treasures" box is a product that resembles a book or a dress pattern box in shape. It can be made of cardboard or plywood. All that is required from the user is to make the pattern boxes and connect them using super glue. Then all that remains is to decorate the product with textile fabric, satin ribbons and other accessories to your taste.
In general, a sewing box is a wonderful interior object, thanks to which you can not only store precious things, but also decorate any room. Today, you can make a box using ready-made patterns of women's clothing with your own hands. You can also create a pattern and a blank using a stencil, using different materials. It is possible to decorate children's patterns of boxes in different ways, from satin ribbons to beads and glitter. You can design it using an existing master class or your own designs.
