Upcycled Mandarin Box

Hello everyone!

Today I have a quick post just to show you how I upcycled a mandarin box. 

I'm a kind of person who always has problems with throwing things away... 

This time I decided to try to give a new life to this mandarin box – to turn it into a storage box for my craft supplies.

Here are the photos before and after:

If you are interested how I did it:

• I wanted to give an antique look to this box. So, I painted it firstly in brown color.
• When it dried, I did a second layer – in turquoise, and left it to dry for a night.
• Then I distressed a top layer with a sand block and for more contrast I added with my brash a light touch of the same brown paint that I used underneath.
• Of course, I strengthened a bottom of the box with a chipboard and an appropriate pattern paper.
•  And a piece of furniture.

  It was fun! And now I have an additional storage box that looks perfect on my bookshelf.

See you later,

Anna

Altered gift box for Words&Paintery

Hi!

It's time for a new challenge at Words&Paintery. For this month I altered a gift box:

A March challenge has a beautiful color palette:

You can enter the challenge till April 15 - here is a link.

And a little bit more photos:

Thanks for stepping by!

Hugs, Anna.