Iron Craft Challenge--Week 2

As mentioned last week, the theme of Week Two of the Iron Craft Challenge was the color orange. I decided to make a box that highlighted a piece of hand marbled paper by the artist Rhonda Miller. I mentioned the materials in an earlier post.

Like last week's purple box, this is made in a style that uses a single piece of uninterrupted paper to cover the top tray (lid). The difference with this box is that is uses a lined board for the interiors rather than the Japanese liner mentioned last Friday.

Here is the side of the box that shows the hand marbled paper for the lid and the orange Canford paper for the bottom tray. The bottom tray uses a cream mulberry paper lined board. The size of the interior of the bottom tray is 4 3/8ths inches wide by 7 3/8ths inches tall by 2 inches deep. In other words, it would conveniently hold 4 inch by 6 inch photographs or postcards quite easily.

Notice how the paper wraps covers the bottom of the tray and then carries up the side of the box and then turns in over the edge. A mark of a good box shows how all of the turn ins meet exactly in the same place across the entire box. The same process was done for the bottom tray (orange tray) and the top tray (marbled paper tray). 

The depth of the top tray (lid) is done for aesthetic purposes. The top tray is 1 1/2 inches deep so that part of the bottom tray is is exposed showing the coordinated orange color. Clearance/reveal usually will vary from 1/2 inch to 1 and 3/4 inches.

One way that I could have made a larger box was to decrease the depth of the top tray. Regardless, I love this orange box and will actually keep this one for myself.