Video Transcript

Hi, I'm Holly Silva, and I've been a crafts expert for fifteen years. Today, I'm going to show you how to decorate small craft boxes. Here I have a craft box, it opens on one side, as you can see and it's a nice, sturdy box. Now, I also have some onion skin paper. What I'm going to do with this is, wrap it like a present, except, I'm going to make sure that we have a free edge to cover the opening part. A little trap door, if you will, where you hide all of your wonderful, little treasures that you, that you use to make your crafts with. Now, what we do is, grab some double stick tape, open the box, and line this up evenly, so that you can fold it over. Now, you want to fold the edge as much as you possibly can. Open the flap and add a piece of double stick tape here, to the corner, that should secure it well. And do the same for the rest of the edges. Now, you're going to continue to do that for the remainder of the box. I'm just going to show you just a little idea here, of how it's going to look. And if it's not perfect, that's o.k., it doesn't have to be, because we're going to cover it with lots of wonderful things, anyway. So, if it's not perfect, do not worry, because we improvise here. Alright, now that, that's folding, we have a really pretty covering. Here, I have a piece of ribbon. Now, you can buy this ribbon by the spool, or you can do like I did, and take any type of ribbon that maybe, you saved from a flower bouquet or anything like that. Because often, we receive the most beautiful bouquets, that have really cool ribbons wrapped around them, and we don't want to throw them away. So, here we have a use for them. So, you want to, if you do add the ribbon on the outside, take your double stick tape and of course, leave a little bit on the corner. That way, you can wrap around the edge, and stick that to the onion paper, onion skin paper, and secure it nice and well there. And of course, you will secure it on the under side. And then, you wrap this over the entire box, if you have enough, and keep a little extra. That way, when you go to fold it on the inside, you'll have enough to secure it. And it'll be nice and sturdy for all the times that you open and close the box. Now, open your box, take another double, piece of double stick tape, a single piece of double stick tape. And place it on the inside of the box there, and over the top. Add any other, really cool, little embellishments, add some rhinestones, add some flowers, even. Add some feathers, add anything that you'd like, stickers, fun stuff. Make it wonderful, because it's yours. Or, if it's for a gift, it's going to be somebody else's, and they're going to love it as much as you do. So, have a great time with it. See you next time.