Fabric Wrap Gift Boxes {DIY}

Hello, 

I am very excited to tell you that my son will be arriving New York tomorrow afternoon. I have not seen him since last summer so it has been almost a year now. I miss him terribly. I will post pictures and story about him and I on my next blog post.

In the meantime, I had so much fun creating these fabric wrap gift boxes. These fabric wrap gift box is very easy to do. You can embellish the box with anything you want. It is fun to see the build up decoration comes a live just like mine are. Some of these trimmings were from a trimming sewn on the bottom of a top. I used the fabrics for many crafts DIY and I cut the trimming to create a rosette as an embellish on this box below.

Tutorial {here}

For this photo session I am using an old abstract painting of mine as a backdrop. I have not been painting in a long time. I think I miss painting a lot lately. Since our home is on the market and always have an open house I am not ready to put out the easel, paints, canvas, etc. It is a lot of work to set it up and put finally to put a way again. So I think I won't be able to paint for a while now.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

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How to Make Fabric Wrap Gift Box {DIY}

 

What you need;

1. Varieties of printed fabrics. The thin cotton is better because otherwise it would be too thick and the box will not be able to close and put on top another. {Quilt fabrics avail. at Jo Ann's Fabrics}

2. Thick lead pencil

3. Scotch Super 77 spray glue {available at Michaels}

4. Scissor

5.Empty craft boxes

6. Varieties of embellishments like trimmings, ribbons, ephemera, tag, rosettes, vintage items, etc. {avail. at Michaels}

7. Medium size of packaging box to put cut fabric while spraying.

Additional material;

8. Glue gun to attached hard embellishment like plastic {avail. at Michaels}

9. Fabric glue to attach ribbon or trimmings. {avail. at Michaels}

10. Mod Podge glue (avail. at Michaels}

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More pictures; {here}

1. Cut fabric large enough to cover the entire box plus 1/4" on the inside.

2. Place bottom part of box in the middle and trace the middle part of the box.

3. Tilt one side of the box and trace that part. Do it on the other 3 sides.

4. You will ended up a drawing on fabric like this.

5. Using scissor; cut the pencil line on the outer part. But leave extra fabric of 1/4 inch for two sides a cross each other. Please see the 4 black line is where you cut.

6. You will ended up having a 4 flaps like these; two one side and two on the opposite side.

7. Put the cut fabric in the box and give it a good spray. Leave for about 1 minute then transfer to your work area.

8. Place the box in the middle.

9. Starting with the side with flap; carefully attached and rub fabric gently  on the side of the box.

10. Do the same on the opposite side.

11. Then do the other two sides.

12. You are finished wrapping the bottom part of the box. Repeat the entire process for the top part of the box EXCEPT do not leave extra to fold inside the box. The reason is because the box will get to thick on the 4 corners that the box will not be closed and or will not be able to insert on top of the bottom part of box. Using small brush with mod podge glue; paint the fray edge of material on the box.

Thank you so much for looking!