Matchbox crafts

Clever designs for cute boxes

Crafting is much more fun and satisfying if you don’t have to buy lots of expensive materials beforehand. You can be creative with everyday items found around the home, making fascinating works of art with very little time and effort – like these matchboxes, for example. Hand-crafted matchboxes can be filled with little surprises and used creatively as invitations, vouchers, congratulations or even declarations of love. Designing the matchboxes is really easy thanks to edding’s gloss paint markers. For really special effects, use them on dark materials as the ink shows up even more beautifully on these. The matchboxes can be filled with tiny gifts, treats or confetti – or why not incorporate a puzzle in your design? Just let your imagination run wild! We show you how in our video tutorial and with our step-by-step instructions.

Categories: Craft your own cards
Special gifts
Products: Paint markers
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

You can see everything you need at a glance in our photo. We used edding 751 gloss paint markers in the colours green metallic (colour code 074), gold (053), pink metallic (079), violet metallic (078) and the edding 780 in black. The black paper should be big enough to wrap around the matchbox and cover it completely.

Step 2

Start by drawing the checked pattern in pencil, making it exactly the same width as the matchbox. Before you use a gloss paint marker, it needs to be activated as described here. Colour in the individual squares brightly with the gloss paint markers.

Step 3

Leave five blank squares in the shape of a figure “1” as shown in the picture – this is the shape of the “missing puzzle piece”. Draw the “1” on a separate piece of paper and use the gold pen to colour it in. Write the words “You’re my missing piece” below it.

Step 4

The pattern will look nicer if you draw thin black lines around the individual squares to separate them. The ideal pen for this is the fine-nibbed edding 780 gloss paint marker.