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Tissue Container Learn how to make a tissue container out of a cigar box. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-148

Guest Fredda Perkins joins her daughter, host Jennifer Perkins, and demonstrates how to turn a cigar box into a tissue container.

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Cigar boxes can be utilized for more than just housing cigars — as guest Fredda Perkins proves with this unique tissue container.

Project designed by Fredda Perkins.

Materials:

cigar boxes (cigar stores sell their empty boxes and a good one to use is one where the lid slides back and forth)
hole saw
sandpaper
black permanent marker
wood doll heads
wooden dowels cut into 1 to 1-1/2" pieces
acrylic paints
wood or craft glue
decoupage glue for the primer
foam brushes
picture of your choice
workable fixative
resin and hardener
two cups
craft stick
petroleum jelly
heat gun

FYI: A "hole saw" is a small cylindrical attachment for a power drill. Hole saws produce smooth, clean cuts with little vibration.

	Figure A
	Figure B
	Figure C
	Figure D

Tissue Container

1. The first step is to cut a hole in the cigar box that you need for the tissues. To do that, you will use a hole saw (figure A). The hole saw is a bit for your drill.

2. When you saw, the side that has the lid that slides up and back is on the back side. Drill a hole in the cigar box and the use a piece of sandpaper to smooth around the edge of the hole (figure B).

3. Use the black permanent market to color in the raw wood around the hole. This gives the cut out hole a more finished look.

4. Next you need to put feet on the tissue box. The feet are made out of wooden doll heads (figure C).

5. Cut the dowel rod into 1 to 1-1/2" long pieces and place them inside the holes in the doll head.

6. You can decorate the feet with polymer clay or just acrylic paints.

7. Make sure the diameter of the drill bit is the same diameter of the wooden dowel pieces. Drill a hole in each corner of the bottom of the tissue box.

8. Use craft or wood glue to secure the dowel inside the doll head and then inside the holes that you drilled in the bottom of the box.

9. Paint a coat of decoupage glue on the side of the box that is raw wood so the paper will stick better.

   Tip: Use the black permanent marker to draw around the edge of the raw wood after the decoupage glue has completely dried. That way, if the box is not perfectly square, you won't have raw wood showing after the picture is glued on.

10. Put another layer of decoupage glue on the raw wood side.

11. Spray a workable fixative on the picture that way if you get glue on your fingers and then on your picture it won't take the color off the picture.

12. Fix equal parts of the resin and the hardener together in a glass. You may want to use just a little bit more hardener than the resin. Do not mix this on a humid day because it will not set up right. Use a craft stick to stir them together.

    Tip: To prevent little drips of resin on the sides of the box, you can put a little bit of petroleum jelly around the edges. Once the resin has dried, you can flick it right off and then wipe off the petroleum jelly! Also, you can put some petroleum jelly on your hands and you will be able to get the resin off your hands easier.

13. Pour some resin on top of the picture and use your fingers to spread it all over the picture (figure D).

14. Use a heat gun to get rid of any bubbles. Set a cardboard box over the resin while it sets to prevent dust particles, etc. from getting into the resin.

GUESTS :

Fredda Perkins
Naughty Secretary Club
Website: www.naughtysecretaryclub.com