Art Angels Bauhaus box

These fun little boxes can be used in so many different ways and can be used to store a multitude of things if you want to swap or gift your ATC coins and cards

I have decorated this one quiet simply with Samperia Bauhaus papers as it is just so bright and colourful and suits these matchboxes to a tee

The whole Bauhaus movement embraced the idea of form following function, that is to say where fine art becomes functional and practical and that is just what these little match boxes are.

Decorate them  to your hearts content and they will still serve a  purpose that is, to store your mini pieces of  artwork

Treat each surface of your box sleeve and drawer  as a  blank canvas for your artwork, I have decorated each side with elements from the Bauhaus scrapbooking pad, layering up sentiments and focal images for a pleasing aesthetic and placed them onto a black gesso base.

I have glued my pieces in place with a matte finish pva that dries clear and top coated the  surface for added protection. The papers where cut to size and edges sanded for a  more  professional finish, I also inked around all the edges or the sanded paper to cover the white exposed core.

I coloured paintbrush elements from the Tando Mini calligraphy tags which can be found  here and adhered them to my pieces using gel medium,  along with elements taken from the steampunk parts.grey board kit. I used glossy  accents clear varnish to make the  paintbrushes  shiny

the brushes  work perfectly with one of the character elements from the paper pad

what an apt sentiment for all the pieces we share with you on this blog, we share all our pieces with you so that you can recreate your own

the mini  tag elements are so  useful and  perfectly sized for these mini projects, they finish off  atcs so well and  just like the cards and  coins themselves they take all sorts of  mediums and stand up well to a lot of moisture without distorting

i edged all my coins with black ink to frame them, this really  does make your colours pop

beautiful and useful

so  easy to decorate and even in its  simplest form,  just using papers and ink it is  so effective

use 3d  glue gel or foam pads to really build  dimension,  there is  more than  enough room in these deep matchboxes to store even the most textured cards

hope you have liked this  project and it has inspired you to get your papers out and have a play