Make Your Own Decorative Matchboxes
Use inexpensive matchboxes from the dollar store and cover them with pretty prints. Perfect for pairing with candle gifts or just a pretty way to display matches in your home.
Equipment
- Color printer
- Scissors
- Paintbrush
Materials
- Matchboxes
- White craft paint
- Mod podge or white glue
- Various printed papers, wrapping paper, or washi tape.
Instructions
- Paint the matchboxes white to cover the signage and logo. Consider painting over any other markings on the sides or near the strike plate.
- Once dry cut out paper from the printables above or use your own wrapping paper or printed stationary.
- Use some mod podge or white glue to adhere the printed paper to the matchboxes. Cover the top and bottom but leave the strike area alone.
- If using washi tape place strips of tape along the matchbox to cover the top and bottom leaving the strike plates alone.
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