Things You'll Need:
- Corrugated cardboard
- Utility knife
- Scissors
- Sewing machine
- Thread
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Hot glue gun
- Fabric
- 14 inches flat lace
- 3 yards pre-gathered lace
- 4-inch piece of ribbon
- Needle
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Step 1
Purchase satin or taffeta fabric to match the wedding colors.
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Step 2
Measure four 12 by 8-inch rectangles and one 40 by 4-inch strip out of the cardboard. Use the utility knife to cut these pieces. Cut four 14 by 10-inch rectangles and one 60 by 9-inch strip out of the fabric.
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Step 3
Lay one rectangular piece of fabric on a flat work surface with the right side facing down. Place one of the rectangular pieces of cardboard on top. Pull the edges of the fabric up tightly around the edges of the cardboard and use the hot glue gun to fasten it down. Work opposite sides first. Repeat with each of the remaining three rectangular pieces of cardboard and fabric.
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Step 4
Cut the pre-gathered lace into 41-inch strips. Glue one strip of lace around the edge of one of the rectangular pieces of cardboard on the unfinished side. Overlap the ends. Repeat on one of the other rectangular cardboard pieces.
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Step 5
Attach a cardboard rectangle without lace to one with the lace with the wrong sides together. This is the bottom of the box.
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Step 6
Place the flat lace on top of the finished side of the rectangular cardboard that does not have the gathered lace on it. Glue the ends of the lace to the underside of the cardboard. Fold the ribbon in half and glue onto the rectangle that has the gathered lace. Make sure the loop hangs out over the edge to form the handle for opening and closing the box. Repeat step 5 to make the lid of the box.
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Step 7
Use the utility knife to make cuts through one layer of the cardboard in the strip at 12, 20 and 32 inches.
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Step 8
Take the strip of fabric and fold it in half with the right sides together. Sew along one of the short end and the long side to make a tube. Turn the tube right side out. Insert the cardboard strip into the tube. Even out the gathers. Tuck in the unfinished ends of the fabric strip and glue in place using the hot glue gun to make the sides of the box.
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Step 9
Put some of the hot glue in one of the corners of the bottom of the box. Set the end of the side of the box, with the seam side down, on this corner. Work your way around the edge of the bottom of the box. Glue the ends of the strip together where they meet at the corner.
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Step 10
Set the lid on top of the box. Use a needle and thread to hand sew it to the base of the box at the back only.
