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Hmmm, Photos In A Box, You Say?
Your photos aren’t just meant to be stored in any ol’ box, collecting dust: they should be shown off in this neat little treasure box!
Plus, this photo DIY is so easy to whip up—easier than cake from a box we say!
These photo treasure boxes would make lovely gifts, as well as creative wedding favors for those of you love birds gettin’ hitched soon.
The Ingredients:
A 2.25″ x 3.25″ x 1″ jewelry box (found at your local craft store)
A 3″ x 16″ strip of paper
A ruler
A pencil
5-6 small photos
A glue stick or double-stick tape
Optional: Decorative tape, like washi tape
STEP 1: Mark It Up
Lay out your strip of paper horizontally.
With your ruler and pencil, mark every 2″ on your strip of paper.
STEP 2: Do the Accordion Fold
Turn your now marked strip of paper so that it’s vertically facing you.
At the first 2″ mark, fold the paper up and away from you, towards the next 2″ mark.
At the next 2″ mark, fold the paper again, but this time towards you.
Repeat this alternating folding pattern until all the 2″ marks have been folded.
You should end up with 8 “pages” created from all these folds.
STEP 3: Fill Your Treasure Chest
Now turn your folded strip of paper so that it’s laid out horizontally.
Take your photos and stick them on each of the “pages” with some double-stick tape or a glue stick. We kept some pages blank to add more “treasure” later.
Some photo treasure ideas:
Small, old family portraits, like ours. Scan & print ‘em out if you don’t want to use the originals.
Different portraits of that one special person, aww.
Pics from a favorite destination, like those from all your different beach trips.
STEP 4: Boxing Time
Time to get the photo party in the box!
Double-stick tape or glue the first left flap on the inside of the jewelery box. Then tape or glue the rightmost flap on the inside of the box’s lid.
STEP 5: Make it Fancy
This step is optional, but feel free to add some finishing flourishes to the outside of your photo treasure box like we did with our fun paper tapes!
New to using decorative tapes? See some rad ways to use them here, or learn how to make some yourself!
More Ways to Box It Up
Use a fun-shaped box like our heart box above!
Christmas is still a ways from now, but what rad stocking stuffers would these make, right?
Experiment with larger boxes for a coffee-table-worthy piece.
Accordion-fold your fave negatives into its own little box!
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