Recycled tissue box

Now that it is allergy season, some of us have plenty of Kleenex boxes around. I decided I would see how much work it would be to make a box out of the empty Kleenex box. I started with a pretty box with butterflies on it. I painted some of the box with gesso. I allowed part of the pattern to show.

I reinforced the box with cardboard from a cereal box.

 

Using mod podge I glued some paper I painted with blue acrylic paint to the inside of the box.

Using tacky glue, I glued a piece of ribbon around the top of the box to cover the ragged edge.

I made a lid to fit the box out of heavy cardboard. I glued phone book pages to both inside and outside of the lid to keep everything in place.

I then painted inside and outside with gesso.

I painted patterns on the lid to match the patterns on the box.

I cut out strips and panels of the blue paper and glued them to the lid and to the box using mod podge. I filled in the white spaces with patterns I made with markers and gel pens.

I think the box is pretty and not a bad project, if you don’t mind spending some time on it.