{"id":250,"date":"2011-05-13T09:22:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2011-05-11T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:00:50","slug":"harry-potter-trinket-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/harry-potter-trinket-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Trinket Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now for something completely different! Besides my jewelry<\/a>, I’m also very crafty in general. I do a lot of craft swaps on Craftster.org. Mainly, I tend to make jewelry there too since it’s my specialty, but sometimes, I also go for projects that are different. It’s nice to do something outside your normal wheelhouse and comfort zone sometimes.<\/p>\n

One recent example is the Harry Potter Trinket box I made:<\/p>\n

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The lady I was crafting it for had an example one she liked on her wishlist. So I used that as in the inspiration and wanted to come as close to the inspiration piece as possible. The first problem was that I needed to find the Harry Potter scrapbook paper for it. Struck out locally but found it on ebay. Next, I needed a box. I picked up an unfinished one from Michael’s but when the paper arrived, I found out it was too small. The only one big enough had a stupid handle on it that I didn’t need. Similar to this:<\/p>\n

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So I bought it anyway along with an sharp craft knife and got to work. I carefully sliced through the glue holding the handle on and eventually was able to break it off. That left some rough spots so I had to then sand it down. I also filled some of the deeper gouges left to keep it as flat and even as possible. Next came a few coats of Gryffindor yellow paint on the entire box – all the outside and inside. Even though it was going to be covered in paper, I wanted a nice, base coat for any places you could see in the seems.<\/p>\n

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After that, I covered it in the paper itself. That was a project! I used Mod Podge to both glue it down and to seal it with several coats. After it dried, I glued on a brass key and I also glued on the little “feet” I bought separately for the box and painted those. Next came an overall aging and paint touch-up job where I added some brown and reds in dry brush and wipe-off techniques to the feet, seems and edges of the box. Just to tone down the yellow and make it look a little more used and worn-in.<\/p>\n

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The final step was a couple coats of a spray-on gloss coat just to help protect it and give it a little more gloss shine.<\/p>\n

All told, it was a much bigger project then I had planned going in. Spent about three evenings on the piece all together. But I think it was a lot of fun and it was neat having something different to do for a change. I hope she really gets a kick out of it and now maybe next time I make one I’ll have a little more knowledge going in and I’ll be able to better prepare for the inevitable problems that come up when you craft something! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now for something completely different! Besides my jewelry, I’m also very crafty in general. I do a lot of craft swaps on Craftster.org. Mainly, I tend to make jewelry there too since it’s my specialty, but sometimes, I also go for projects that are different. It’s nice to do something outside your normal wheelhouse…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[394,382,321,392,28,132,388,391,389,384,383,145,387,385,393,390,386],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-general","tag-craft-project","tag-gryffindor","tag-hand-crafted","tag-hand-painted","tag-handmade","tag-harry-potter","tag-harry-potter-jewelry-box","tag-harry-potter-scrapbook-paper","tag-harry-potter-trinket-box","tag-hogwarts","tag-house-crest","tag-hp","tag-jewelry-box","tag-trinket-box","tag-unfinished-wooden-box","tag-wood","tag-wooden-box"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}