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back to boxes….

Making boxes from book board and paper is much more challenging in a lot of ways than making them from fabric and timtex. First you must decide on the shape of the box,cut out the pieces measuring very carefully and glue everything together. The depth of the book board has to be taken into [...]

The writers box,shop update &class announcements…

My newest box:

I call this the writers box. This is a drop spine box and inside you'll find:A blank journal and a space for keeping pencils and pens. I've put this box along with several others in my Etsy shop.

And for those of you who live in my area,my spring [...]

wonky box

As you can probably imagine I have a lot of scrap pieces of book board piling up in my studio. I've generated a lot of odd cut pieces with all the pyramid and house boxes that I've created over the last couple of weeks so I decided to use some of the odd shapes to [...]

New Class Announcement!

Registration is now open for my latest new online class:

Creative Box Making for the Paper Artist!

This is a no sew class. All the boxes we'll make in this class are made with paper,glue and book board. The class is 4 lessons and you'll learn how to make drop spine boxes [...]

Drop spine boxes

These are samples for the Box Making Class at the Danforth Museum this spring.   

These boxes measure about 5"x 7"x 3"and all three are built starting with a basic drop spine box format:

It's called a drop spine because the lid is attached to the box with a hinged [...]

Building houses….

That's what I've been doing the last few days:

These are all samples for the box making class that I'll teach at the Danforth Museum in the spring. We'll make the one in the front of the photo in the class. It's a fairly easy one to put together although it takes a bit [...]

still more boxes ….

I got a lot of emails from readers yesterday asking if the boxes I showed in yesterdays post were part of the Creative Box Making for the Fiber Artist online class.   They are not part of that online class. The boxes I posted yesterday are made with paper,glue and book board. The Creative Box [...]

boxes,boxes,boxes

I am going to be teaching a box making class at the Danforth in the spring so I've been busy making up samples of the projects that students will be making.   It's going to be a six week class and I think we'll get to make at least 5 different boxes. The first one will [...]

Stack of boxes &a new hardcover padfolio…

I am not usually one to leave unfinished projects laying around for long but in the case of this stack of boxes I kept pushing it to the side to work on other projects. I finally put the finishing touches on the drawers the other day:

The top box has a single drawer,the middle [...]

Box making class samples…

I finished off the last of the samples that I needed to make for the Creative Box Making class scheduled to debut in February.

We'll be making teapots with paper towels…

and pyramid boxes:

that you can fill with candy…

All the information on the Creative Box Making for the Fiber Artist [...]