One day on the Aleene's TV program they showed how to make a box that resembles a hat. They used a paper hatbox and turned it upside down so that the lid was the bottom and then added a rim and decorated it.

Then I got "stick & hold" from Aleene's and that gave me the idea to make a box on top of a CD and use another CD as the lid and an empty masking tape spool as the body of the box.

I covered both sides of a CD with leather. Cutting the leather about 1/8-inch larger than the CD so that leather touches leather and makes a nice finish. This is the bottom.

Then I covered the inside and the outside of the masking tape spool with leather and glued it onto the CD.

For the lid I covered another CD on both sides with leather. This time I cut the leather on the top about 1/2-1-inch larger than the CD and made little cuts right up to the CD to create a fringe. Then I ran a bead of glue with a glue gun along the CD and pushed the fringe along that to make it stand up. When turned around it points downward.

To make the lid stay on I cut a circle from a styrofoam meat tray to fit inside the masking tape spool. It it probably best to cut that circle before the spool is glued to the bottom CD. Don't make it a tight fit.

To finish it off, I glued some bead ribbon on the box. A small plastic hat became the handle and some ribbon roses and leftover ivyleaves finished the decorations.

Inside of Box

Underside of Lid

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