Weddingbee boards

Miss Cola made one out of hat boxes - I'm going to try to do something similar but I wouldn't even try to make something as detailed as hers - which came out soooo frikkin cool - I just suck at DIY so I wouldn't attempt it. Here's her link:

http://www.weddingbee.com/2009/11/20/homemade-card-box/

I might just be a sellout & buy a used cool birdcage at a 2ndhand store & spraypaint it.

I made my own out of picture boxes.  I don't have any pictures during assembly though....

I couldn't find a big deep box, so I used two shallow ones.  I wrapped the base with wrapping paper and cut a fairly large hole in the lid then wrapped that as well. 

For the next box, I cut a hole in the base the same size as the hole in the lid of the box it will sit on and then wrapped it.  For the lid for that box, I used the smaller box as a template to cut a hole, then wrapped it. 

For the top box I cut a hole the same size as the whole in the lid of the box below it and wrapped with a different kind of wrapping paper.  For the lid I cut a small whole that would fit a large card. 

I then used some left over organdy and tulle and glued it to the two bottom boxes before I glued all the boxes together.  Then I used ribbon and pearl strands to add some definition. 

The flower is pieces of organdy, organza and tulle.  To make the flower cut a flower shape out of the fabric.  I think I used 16-20 pieces of fabric.  I varied them, so they weren't all in the same pile.  Then I folded them in half and then in a quarter and hand stitched along the fold.  Here's a website that shows how to do these with pictures.  Flower.  I then made a bow with some leftover pearl strand and ribbon.  Here's the finished product.  Feel free to PM me with any questions!