Decoupaged Contact Lens Box

Decoupaged Contact Lens Box

(Here's Looking at You, Kid!)

Last week I showed you a decoupaged cigar box which I gave to M for his birthday.

Today my decoupage project is a box which I gave to M to keep his new contact lenses in. Eventually he decided not to use the hard contact lenses, and went back to glasses. He now uses this box as a sewing kit, for needles, thread, and buttons.

For the top of the plain box, I used a very thick piece of leftover wallpaper. Normally this isn't a good idea for decoupage because it is too hard to sink it into the surface. And it didn't sink. But I still think it looks pretty.

Wallpaper goes on the exterior top of box.

I painted the top exterior brown and the bottom exterior white.

I painted  the rim white. I lined the bottom with brown velvet, with a trim of gold thread.

Full view of interior.

 But..Wait!

 What's that on the top?

A cut-out of an owl 

 from a greeting card

 is pasted on a white-painted background.

The top is also trimmed with gold thread. 

"Here's looking at you, kid!"

(at least while he wore contacts)