craftlog

I got a really neat book of wrapping paper from Oh Boy Artifacts a couple of years ago. One of the designs in particular really appeals to me and I usually can’t bear to part with a sheet of it for it’s supposed purpose. I used some scraps to make a pencil cup, a box for memo paper, and push pins. The whole thing started as a Martha idea gone wrong. In a fit of cutesy-ness I bought her quilling kit (EDIT: which is only $12 now). One of the ideas in the kit was to make tight coils of different sizes and colors and stack them up, then glue them on a tack. I tried this and didn’t like the way it looked, so I was stuck with all these little coils of quilling paper. I cut circles out of the wrapping paper, glued them to the quilling paper coils, and then glued that to a tack. (It helps to sand the top of the tack first so the glue has something to attach to.) I’m not so good at cutting out circles, but they still look ok.

The cup part of the pencil cup is an empty Tazo tea tin. I just glued the paper around it. I glued a layer of wrapping paper to a layer of heavier paper, and folded a little box from it to hold a notepad.