Making Daisy Chains - Tina's Craft Room Organiser No 3. - Memory Box

Hello Crafty Friends!
Wow! Tina has been creating such gorgeous craft organising projects this month...... you'd never want to buy 'shop bought' storage again!! Her storage box today can be used for so many things (not necessarily craft)...... I LOVE it!!!

Hello everyone, I hope you are enjoying the Spring weather and the wonderful projects the team at Aunty Vera Scrap And Craft have produced this month.
This month I wanted to focus organisation and storage, and today I have a little project for my youngest daughter. Isabella wanted a box of some sort to store her photos and small mementos from school camps, to sleepovers with her best friends, so again another project that went from the craft room to my daughter's room.
Here I have made a storage box with a lid to keep all her keepsakes.

I started by cutting the box in chipboard. The bottom half  was made first.

I used masking tape to join all my pieces together. This works just as good as my strips of paper I used in my previous two projects. First I placed masking tape on the bottom of the box piece.

I then added the front and back piece and smoothed it down well.

Then I added the tape to the two side pieces.

Adding them together, and securing the sides temporarily with a small amount of tape so I can make sure it all fits in together properly.

The lid is made the same way, with these measurements.

Here is the lid and box ready to be taped all up.

Once I am happy with the box I tape up one side at a time remembering to remove the small piece of
tape. The tape is cut slightly longer on both ends so I can cut it in the middle and fold over the edges. Then I can tape the inside and all the outside edges.
For stability, I added four pieces of chipboard on the inside of the base, half the height of the box.

Once the box is all taped up I painted all the edges using Kaisercraft Paint - Pretty Pink.

I then added some of the American Crafts - Butterfly Ribbon from the kit on the inside lid and base sides to hold the lid in place when it is open. I then decorated it with the beautiful Echo Park - Hello Spring papers from the kit. Starting with the inside ( make sure to leave the back inside piece until after adding the hinges). I just love this paper, I added one of the cut-aparts on the inside lid.

The outside I used a yellow cardstock with the Papers from the kit and then I added my hinges. I marked them in place and glued them down before adding the screws. ( the screws were too long so they had to be cut down to size so they would not poke through the inside of the box.)

I then added some little wooden drawer knobs to the base for the feet.

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Now I can cover the inside back piece.

I decorated the front of the box with some matching cardstock from my collection and some of the stickers from the kit. The flowers are also from the kit, which I layered on top of each other and added a few extra petals from my own collection.
I left the top of the box for my daughter to decorate, and the little box is now finished.

I hope you have enjoyed my project.
Thank you and Happy Crafting.
Tina xxx

The September Kit can be purchased HERE