Pasta of various shapes is an excellent material for decoration. They are used to decorate frames and panels. However, they can be used to make quite functional, and most importantly, very beautiful and original things, for example, jewelry or jewelry boxes.
What you need to make a pasta box
Before you start making the box, draw a sketch of it. Consider its size, shape and decoration. The box can also be supplemented with handles and legs, making it convenient to use. Make templates for the bottom, walls and lid of the product from cardboard. Glue them together to make a kind of box. Also, as a template, you can use a ready-made small package, for example, from under eau de toilette or perfume.
Prepare everything you need to make the box. Take:
- pasta of various shapes;
- glue gun;
- a spray can with gold or silver paint.
Heat the pasta in a dry skillet over the lowest heat before use. As a result, they will become much stronger.
Jewelry box manufacturing technology
Start collecting the box from the bottom. Attach pasta to the template, ensuring the desired location. Then glue them together one by one. Apply some hot glue to the side and attach the next piece. Do this as carefully as possible so that excess glue does not spoil the appearance of the product. The size of the bottom should be 0.5 cm larger than that of the model.
Then start making the side walls of the box. Place the first row of pasta and hot glue it to the protruding parts of the bottom. Continue to lay them out in rows. Let the workpiece dry completely for a couple of hours.
At this time, make the lid of the box. In a similar way, lay it out with pasta and glue the parts together with hot glue. Make decorations on the lid, glue pasta to the surface in the form of shells, stars or flowers. And from the products in the form of letters, you can lay out the name of the owner of the box.
When the main part is dry, make handles and legs for it. Glue several pasta together, glue another row on top of them. When the parts are dry, attach the handles to the sides of the box and carefully glue them so as not to break the product. Put the legs on the table, apply glue to the entire surface and put a box covered with pasta on them.
After the blank is completely dry and the structure is solid, take out the cardboard template and paint the box. It is best to use spray paints for this. A very effective product is obtained if you use gold or silver paint. It is best to paint not indoors, but outdoors, on a balcony or in a stairwell. Cover the work surface with paper, place the product on it and paint by spraying paint at a distance of 30-50 cm from the surface. Paint all sides of the box: outside and inside.
You can store a variety of necessary things in pasta boxes, they are quite functional and very elegant, so they can become a worthy interior decoration. However, it should be borne in mind that they are still very fragile, so you should be very careful with them.
