Dragonfly Trinket Box

This little project is another DT project for Faith Pocock Craft Studio. This started life as an Artist Trading Block but I decided to switch it up a bit and make it into a trinket box. That is the beauty of the kits from Faith. They can start as one thing and end up as something else very easily.

I cut the tabs off oe side of the box so that I could make a lid.  To fill the gaps on the sides of the box where the tabs would have fitted I cut matchsticks to fill the gaps and then used modeling paste over the top to make the sides smooth and even.  I painted the insdie fot he box and then glued paper to each side of the box.  

For the lid I cut three pieces of chipboard slightly bigger than the box, glued them together and covered them with paper.  I did the same for the inside of the lid, cutting three pieces of chipboard smaller than the opening, gluing them together, covering them with paper, then gluing them to the inside of the lid piece.  This was to make the lid fit snugly without sliding around.  I then covered the MDF piece I had cut the tabs off with paper.

For the gears pieces I layered gel medium into a Stamperia soft mould and when It was dry I peeled it off and broke it in to pieces which I then glued to the four sides and the top of the lid.

I painted the moulded pieces with black paint then drybrushed with gold paint and Ice Blue Inca Viva wax.

To make the handle I glued together MDF cogs and a piece of dowel. This was then screwed into the MDF lid piece and this was then glued to the lid.  For the top of the handle I used a metal bezel and cabachon with a gear image. I then attached the metal feet that came with the Artist Trading Block kit.

So by cutting off four tabs the Artist Trading block becomes a sweet little trinket box that is useful and decorative.  Dont be afraid to modify and experiment with these kits.