I didn't take any pictures of the process, but it's not hard to explain, but here's how they started out...
Beautiful, aren't they!!! (see how that's not a question, but a statement!)
So, how did I made them? Well, I bought some wooden dollar store boxes. They are available in almost every dollar store I've ever been in and are made from real wood, but they are unfinished. They're usually about $1.50 each. Totally affordable, but not very beautiful looking in their raw state.
We've done a lot of home reno's so we had stain on hand. I used a walnut color. It didn't take very long, maybe 30 minutes to stain all six boxes, inside and out.
After the stain dried, I decoupaged my labels to the top and inside lid of each box. I used Mod Podge on the top and bottom of each label to give it some durability and to make sure that the labels don't start peeling off. The labels were ones that I had designed myself in my wedding colors using a gradient and some pretty fonts.
After the labels were dried on there (they aren't coming off for the world!), I cut some styrofoam into the shape of the inside of the boxes and hotglued them in. I didn't want the jewelry sitting in there too deep. I took some dollar store craft foam and cut that to shape too and hot-glued that onto the styrofoam. I kind of regret that desicion now because it's hard to me to make the jewelry sit nice on the foam. I should have made it so that I could hide the chains behind the black foam, but c'est la vie! I'll figure something out before I give these to my girls!!!
All in all, I'm still pretty stoked about how they turned out!!!
