Jute Trinket Box

I love it when I can make a craft from items - especially recycled ones I have in my stash! I found a small heavy duty cardboard tube in the stash that I have no  clue where it came from. I imagine something was wrapped around it, but there were no markings or glue on it. I just knew that I wanted to make something out of it and not throw it away! Now the time has come to do just that! 
 

Hello and welcome to our Creative Craft Hop hosted this month by Donna @ Modern on Monticello! We are delighted to have two hosts - Donna and Sara @Birdz of a Feather! They each take turns hosting every other month! Thank you ladies for hosting this awesome Creative Craft Hop! If you're coming over from Rachel @ Tea and Forget Me Nots, isn't her Halloween Garland adorable!

For this hop, I'm sharing how I turned a heavy duty cardboard tube into an adorable jute trinket box! Here's how!

Materials Used:

• Heavy duty cardboard tubes - 2.5", 1/2" 
• Natural jute rope - 5mm
• Jute cord
• Hot glue gun/glue sticks
• Cardboard
• Craft knife, pencil, scissors
• Burlap
• Quick dry glue
• Wired ribbon - 1.5" wide
• Large eye needle

Start by removing a large amount of jute rope from the roll to wrap around the cardboard tube. Run a line of glue inside the tube and .  .  .

lay the end of the jute rope on the glue to secure.

Begin wrapping the jute around the tube .  .  .

going around and around the tube. Be sure to squeeze the jute rows together while you wrap - not leaving any space between lines.

Until ..  .  .

the tube is completely covered. Seal end of the jute rope with hot glue, cutting off excess jute. 

Add a decorative look to the outside of the jute covered tube by threading a large eye needle with jute cording and weaving the jute cording inside and out around the larger jute rope.

To seal the bottom, place wrapped tube on a piece of cardboard cut from a cardboard box. Draw a circle around the outline of the tube and .  .  .

cut out using a craft knife.

Lay the cardboard circle on a piece of burlap. Leave about a half inch of burlap from the edge of the circle and cut out around the circle. 

Apply quick dry glue to the cardboard circle and .  .  .

press it down on the center of the burlap circle. Cut slits in the edge of the burlap to .  .  . 

seal  on the cardboard. Measure another piece of burlap the exact size of the cardboard circle. Apply glue to the burlap edge and .  .  .

lay the burlap circle on top .  .  .

for a finished look.

Apply to the bottom of the tube by adding glue around the edge .  .  .

to secure to bottom. Wrap smaller cords around edge for a finished look!

To make the top, repeat steps to cover a cardboard circle, as before for the bottom. Once that's done, to dress up the top, a decorative ruffle will be added.

Leaving the 1.5" wide wired ribbon on the roll, take the end of the ribbon and pull the inside wire from the edge creating a ruffle.

 

Once you've created enough ruffle to wrap around the top, begin gluing the ruffle edged to the edge of the top.

Secure the pulled wire by either forming a knot and cutting off excess wire. Or tucking wrapped wire end in fold of ruffled ribbon. Fold over the ribbon end, cutting off excess ribbon and glue the ruffle edges together at fold.  

And finally for the top, glue on a strip of jute rope for a finished edge around the bottom of the ruffled top.

To make a handle for the top, wrap a smaller cardboard tube ( one leftover from washi tape) with jute cording and .  .  .

glue to center of ruffled top!

How cute is this!

Perfect for small trinket items!

Up next is  Sara @Birdz of a Feather, one of our fabulous co-hosts, sharing her amazing Crochet Can Cozy! You must check it out! Sara is so creative and talented! 

And be sure to check out all of the talented bloggers sharing their awesome creations listed below: 

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