p.44 of Craft Magazine – they were making little favor boxes from small cereal boxes.

This used to be a gift bag with the brand name on both sides of the bag which I covered with cut outs from Catalogs.

I just use 20 gauge craft wire for the handle, I like the handle to stand up instead of just falling to the sides.  This is the other side of bag, I hang the snow flake ornament on the handle.

This box is from an energy drink, I like the front that says Rockstar, I thought this would be nice for an aspriring rockstar in your family.  I just experimented on this one and covered the box with tissue and painted it just randomly.  I thought it came out funky-cute.

This box as you can see is made from kleenex box, I cut the top off and just put blue masking tape all round it.  I glued some paper doily and painted it with bright colors – keep in mind everything on the box are just left over materials that I already have in my craft box.  I did the handle differently on this one, I wire wrapped the beads with 20 gauge wire same technique I use for making the wire wrapped paper bead bangle.

It’s pretty easy to make the tube shaped paper beads with the bamboo paper bead roller or if you want to make the smaller paper beads you can go with the metal paper bead roller.