Milk Carton Beach Keepsake
- Description
The Supplies:
milk carton template from Kaye Winiecki; Project Mouse At Sea Word Bits by Sahlin Studio and Britt-Ish Designs, as well as Maritime Papers and Elements from One Little Bird, Designs.
(paper supplies: glue, ribbon, safety pin, tiny attacher stapler, piece of plastic packaging, shells & photo)
The Process:
When I saw the milk carton template I was inspired by our recent beach trip. We love to collect shells, and I thought this would be a cute vacation keepsake to sit on a bookshelf or desk. Mine is on my desk at work. To create the box, I used Photoshop to lay out all the papers on the milk carton template as well as the tag and buoy elements. I used the empty space to add a few other elements I knew I would cut out and use and printed that side. For the other side, I filled the entire page with the blue pattern and the wave stamp, then printed. I printed the cut lines on a plain sheet of paper and stapled it to the unprinted edge of the printed card stock, then used my folder/creaser and a ruler to trace each line. Recycled packaging worked for my window plastic, glued all the way around the edges. The rest of the elements I wanted to use were laid out on a 4×6 piece of photo paper and printed and added to finish it off with a few shells and a beach photo tucked inside