Decoration of shoe boxes. Hints and Ideas

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Any woman feels happy buying new shoes or boots. After they move from the store to our shoe closet, the shoe box takes pride of place in the closet or pantry, where it collects dust until it suddenly ends up in a landfill.

But the scenario may be completely different, in which this same box takes on a new life and continues to delight its owner. Then two necessary things appear at once in the house - a new pair of shoes and a useful multifunctional box for storing small things.

Decorating shoeboxes is not only useful work, but also quite exciting.

Class for adults and children

You can involve children in the process. Decorating shoeboxes is not so difficult, it can have an educational effect and allows you to develop your baby's creativity. Children are happy to help adults when it comes to interesting needlework. Kids can make an appliqué out of paper, paint with paints, stick clippings from postcards. Later, in these magical chests, the child will obediently and even happily hide scattered throughoutapartment toys.

What materials can be used to decorate shoe boxes

• The very first thing that comes to mind is colored paper. You can take a special gift, wrapping paper, which comes with a variety of patterns and patterns. It is convenient to use old wallpapers, newspapers and magazines for these purposes.
• Fabrics allow for a flight of fancy. Not only color is important here, but also texture. You can use both thin, translucent fabrics that are glued to the box, and dense ones that attract with their texture.
• Often, needlewomen decorate shoe boxes using decoupage technique. To do this, you need glue, varnish and colored napkins.
• In haberdashery stores you can find a lot of materials for decoration. These are beads, shiny rhinestones, beads, imitation pearls, ribbons and more.

How the second life of a shoebox begins

Let's take a step-by-step look at how you can decorate a regular box with paper:

1. Preparing roll paper for gift wrapping.



2. Spread the bottom of the box with glue and put it in the center of the prepared sheet.
3. Press the paper firmly to the bottom so that air bubbles do not form. We are waiting for the glue to dry.
4. Raise the free edges of the paper. Cut the sheet one by one where it meets the edge of the box.
5. We glue each side in turn.
6. We wrap the free edges approximately 2-3 cm inward and fix them with glue.
7. You can decorate the corners of the box with thin strips of paper in a contrasting color.

This is just the base, and then you can decorate the color box with a variety of items. The main thing is that you like them and fit the design to the interior. The inner surface can also be pasted over or covered with velor fabric. This can instantly turn an ordinary box into an interesting box.

Decorate shoeboxes and more (upgrade)

Let's look at the most popular and interesting decor ideas and bold examples.

• Denim never goes out of style, but a particular model of trousers may well become irrelevant. Old jeans that you don't wear for a long time can be a great material for decorating boxes. Denim will stick better on an adhesive basis, the corners can be additionally fixed by stitching them with threads. The decoration of such a trendy box can be a pocket ripped from the same trousers.
• Sacking has recently become popular. You can often find tablecloths, napkins and chair upholstery made from this seemingly inconspicuous fabric. A box in the same style can be the perfect addition to the interior.
• If you want to create a real royal chest from an ordinary box, then stock up on openwork lace and pearl beads. Only valuable things are suitable for such a box.



• Newspaper clippings will be a great themed decor for boxes in which you plan tostore letters and photos.
• Rhinestones and sequins are the best decoration for young fashionistas. Such a glamorous jewelry box will make all your girlfriends jealous.

As you can see, decorating shoeboxes is a creative job. There are no hard and fast rules here. Maybe at the very beginning not everything will work out perfectly, but with a little practice, you will be able to create real masterpieces from the usual.