Casket with your own hands from a wide variety of improvised materials

It's nice, when someone presents a box to you on your holiday, made with your own hands as a gift. It can be a carved wooden casket or a casket of plywood with burning.

Of course, to make a casket of wood, you needto have certain skills. But in the places of joining the parts the master has to use methods that can then be used during the construction of the cottage. After all, the algorithm for the design of corners, when the material of the product is a tree, is practically repeated! Another casket with their own hands requires for work on it a drill for wrapping self-tapping screws, self-tapping screws and loops. If desired, you can even make a miniature lock on the lid.

Very nice when the box is varnished ordecorated with carvings. Many people use decoupage techniques when decorating a casket. Also charming is a wooden box for small items, trimmed with oak bark on top. It is quite suitable upholstery of a miniature chest with leather or even a multi-colored tin - in the style of the Tatar old chests.

There is a technique when the box itselfis made from an ordinary cardboard box. In this case, the box can be trimmed ... with an egg shell! For such an original thing, you do not need to purchase expensive materials. And the process itself is quite simple, so even a kid can make such a gift.

The PVA adhesive covers a small area of ​​cardboard anda piece of shell is applied to it. A wooden stick gently presses the shell to the plane, it breaks from pressing and is glued to the box. Then another section of the surface of the box is also processed, until the entire box is covered with the shell. After drying with PVA glue the second layer covers the casket. It is also possible to use paint of any color and varnishing.

Wicker looks great and original.A casket of leather straps, of bast, of willow rods or of newspapers. It can be either rectangular or rounded - it all depends on what shape the bottom is chosen by the creator of the masterpiece. For weaving of bast, wicker rods or newspaper tubes, the bottom should first be weaved from the selected material, then bend it upwards. The next rows are woven spiral, gradually weaving the row behind the series. It is necessary to calculate so that the number of rods of the base is even.

For leather straps, it is possible to usethe base of the copper wire that holds the shape, but rather easily bends. By the way, you can also use a cloth instead of skin, stitching strips from it. Especially charming looks a box of stripes of denim fabric of different tones.

And girls like boxes frombeads or even crocheted boxes. The technique of beadworking offers skilled workers to work with this material by the method of stringing beads on a fishing line or a soft wire. A skilful at a certain creative approach can use the pictures that she will vypletet on the lid or stenochkah casket.

The needlewoman with skills of open-workKnitting with crochet or crochet, if desired, will create an object worthy of admiration and ecstasy of others. In order for the casket, connected by its own hands of thread, to hold a shape, it is best to make a wire frame for it. The walls, the bottom and the lid are knitted in size, wetted in a starch solution and stretched on it.

And a wonderful gift can servea box made with hand made from postcards. It turns out to be voluminous, in form more like a trunk. Depending on the skill of the master, the chest is made with a rectangular or triangular, pentagonal or hexagonal bottom. And the lid can have a domed appearance or similar to the walls.

To perform this model, postcards should besew with a sewing suture or tie a hook. Each wall is made of two postcards, one of which is slightly wider than the main one. When two postcards are connected, by a thread (needle or crochet) fastening them for a string or a stitch, that postcard, the size of which is larger, bends outward, creating a volume. When connecting all the walls between the outer curved postcards, openings are formed. For their concealment, the "petals" corresponding to the dimensions are cut out.

Here so without special material costs it is possiblecreate a superb beauty and a necessary gift in everyday life. In such boxes you can store all sorts of trinkets, cosmetics, jewelry or threads, needles and buttons.