Spellbinders Upcycled Juice Carton

I'm so excited and honored to be the first designer to kick off the new and inspiring International Flair section in the Spellbinders blog SpellbindersExploreBeyond.com!
To celebrate this new exciting adventure I'll be sharing with you all a great fun tutorial on how to upcycle your milk/juice empty carton.

This project is all about displaying your photos where everyone can see them! The carton will be transformed into a wonderful house frame holder for your memorable photos.

 

 Here's what you'll need to create this project:

Spellbinders Nestabilities – Labels On

Spellbinders Media Mixage – Triangle One Bezels, Triangle One Dies, Ephemera Papers Two

Patterned paper - 7 Dots

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Flowers - Prima, Kaiser Craft

Key Embellishment – K&Company Metal Art

Brad – Recollections

Acrylic Paint – DecoArt – Americana – Buttermilk

Gesso - Ranger

Mask – Prima (bricks)

Brown Ink – Ranger

Resin – Ice Resin

Other – Metal chain, rings and hinges, beads, glitter

1. Prepare the carton: empty it and wash it thoroughly. Let it dry completely before closing the cap.

2. Cover the carton with Gesso (including the plastic cap). Let dry.

3. Paint the carton with acrylic paint of your choice. I used buttermilk. Let dry.

4. Create brick pattern on the carton with the mask and distress ink.

 

 5. Punch strips of patterned paper with a border punch. Adhere on the top diagonal part of the carton to create the roof tiles. Add strips to the front of the roof as decorative trims. Ink the edges. TIP: when you adhere the strips around the cap, mark the place of the cap with a pencil and cut the strip to fit.

 

6. Cut frames with Spellbinders Nestabilities and adhere on all sides of the carton. Combine different colors of paper and different sizes of frames to make it interesting!

 

7. Add metal hinges (I got mine from a DIY store).

 

8. Create metal flags: Cut triangle paper shapes with Spellbinders Media Mixage Dies and insert in compatable

9. Attach rings to bezels and hang the bezels to a metal chain. Ahere the chain and triangles to the carton so they will stay exactly where you want them. I also added a brad to give the illusion that the chain is hanged.

10. Add key embellishment and flowers all around the bottom of carton. 

11. Now all you need to do is cut your photos with the frame dies and adhere them to their place!

 

Have fun creating!

Einat