Small Tissue Box by Lisa Haney

Small Tissue Box 

Designed by Lisa Haney

This tissue box is half the size of a regular one.  You simply cut your tissues in half and save by doubling the amount of tissues you have to use.  No more wasting a big tissue when a small one will do!

Supplies:

Makin’s Clay®

White

Recommended Makin’s® Tools

Makin’s Clay® Texture Sheet - Set E (Diamond)

Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®

Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat

Other Materials:

Small Box (I used a Luna® Bar box)

Scissors

Corn Starch (I keep mine in a small sock and gently pounce it where needed)

JudiKins Diamond Glaze™

Large Oval Cutter

Paint Brush

Small Mixing Cup

SureHold® Plastic Surgery® Super Gel

Tim Holtz® Adirondack® Alcohol Ink – Watermelon

Method

  

Run white Makin’s Clay® through the Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine® at the largest setting (#1).  Cut out a piece of clay a little larger than the bottom of the Luna® box using the box as a template.  Repeat for all of the sides.  Let the clay dry 24 hours.

 

Cut the bottom off of the Luna® box.

Once the clay has dried, use the scissors to trim the clay to fit INSIDE of the box.  This is to ensure the bottom of the tissue box will be smaller than the top of the tissue box.   The top of the tissue box should slide over the bottom when the tissue box is complete.

Glue the sides, one at a time, to the bottom of the box using the SureHold® Plastic Surgery® Super Gel.  The gel is great because it isn’t runny and there is enough time to get the sides positioned properly on the box.

Create another sheet of white clay on the largest setting (#1) of the clay machine.  Because you will be running the texture sheet through the Ultimate Clay Machine™ with the clay, it is a good idea to use cornstarch as a clay release on the Makin’s Clay® Diamond Texture Sheet.  (If you were applying the texture by just applying pressure by hand, the cornstarch is not necessary.) Run the sheet back through the clay machine with the texture sheet (make sure the side with the corn starch touches the clay.)  Cut the clay sheet a little larger than the top of the Luna® box.  Cut the center out of the piece with a large oval cutter.

Create sheets for the sides of the box the same way – run white clay through the clay machine, apply the corn starch release, run both through the clay machine, and cut each strip a little larger than the sides of the box.  Let the clay dry 24 hours.

Once the clay has dried, cut the pieces to fit the OUTSIDE of the Luna® box with the scissors.

Mix Diamond Glaze with the alcohol ink and paint all of the textured sheets.  Make sure to paint the sides.  Let the glaze dry.

Glue the sides to the top of the box using the super gel.

 

Cut a stack of tissues in half and place in the bottom of the box.

Place the lid on the box and now you have a great money saving tissue box.