Top Hat CD Box - Trinket Box - Cake Box

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 small version of a hat with a CD as the base and the empty roll from masking tape as the top of the hat.

I covered the CD on both sides with leather I had lying around. By cutting the leather a little bit larger than the CD I could glue the two halves together and give it a nice finish. As I wanted the hat part to stay put on the CD and also hold trinkets, I made a circle out of cardboard that was smaller in diameter than the masking tape spool and less high. I covered that circle inside and out with leather and glued it onto the CD.

Then I cut a circle out of a styrofoam meat tray to make a bottom for the empty masking tape roll. I glued it on and covered it inside and out with leather. It now fits perfectly on the CD and looks like a tophat. It looked a little bland to me so I glued some ribbon on to it.

CD Trinket Box

In this version I used another CD and attached it to the masking tape spool to make the cover. Again I covered the 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 roll. 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 the box 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.

Cake Box

One day I found Aleene's accent paste on sale in a store and bought it with the tought in mind that it would come in handy some day. That day arrived when I saw them cover square boxes with the paste to make fake little cakes.Now I am not very good at cake decorating, but even with my limited skill level I am quite pleased with the end result.

I had come across some discarded verticle blinds and took them home. Now they were the perfect material to make the inside container for my cake.

I folded the blind in half lengthwise and glued into a circle slightly smaller than the masking tape roll inside diameter, and glued it onto a CD. Then I coverd the inside of the masking tape roll with some material from the blind.

The basic cake is built again on an empty masking tape roll. After putting on an endcap out of foamboard or my version from a meat tray. I covered everything on the outside with Aleene's accent paste and let it dry over night. The next day I put the accent paste into a icing bag and piped it on just like real icing. Put your work on freezer paper or wax paper so that when everything is dry it will come off easily. Pipe a flower and some leaves on the wax paper also and let dry again.

Once everything was dry, I painted the cake white and the flower pink and the leaves green. Glued the flower and the leaves to the cake and covered everything with a few coats of varnish.

It looks delicious.