Vintage Cases Instructions

Supplies:

• One Matchbox
• 3" black or coordinating 1/8" wide ribbon
• Rubber Cement
• Scissors
• 2 Images of a Vintage Case
• Felt Markers
• Exacto Knife
• long sewing needle with large eye

Directions:

1. Find images for the front and back of the vintage case. I save them to a disk either in .jpg or .gif format. I found all these images on the internet.
2. Using Microsoft Greeting Card Workshop, I imported the pictures into the program for making a "flyer".
3. Import one image.
4. Reduce the size of the image. This is tricky. You'll have to play around with the dimensions and print a few out until you get the hang of how much reducing you have to do to achieve the correct dimension.
5. Copy the image. You'll need two images for each case you make. (a front and a back)
6. Print the "flyer" out.
7. Cut out the images.
8. Discard the matches in the matchbox.
9. Glue one to the front and one to the back of the matchbox.
10. Color the top and sides of the matchbox with the markers to coordinate with the background of the image.
11. Take the drawer out.
12. Using an Exacto knife or other sharp object, pierce two holes about 1/2" apart on the top of the drawer. Don't make these holes too close to the edge of the drawer.
13. Thread the long needle with the 1/8" ribbon.
14. Using a long needle, thread the ribbon through the holes.
15. Inside the drawer tie a knot at the ends of each side of the ribbon.

Put the drawer back into the matchbox.