I've had this tin mailbox sitting around for about 2 years. I was making my extra chores can and came upon the mailbox and decided to make it into a kind notes mail box for our family. We can write kind notes to someone in the family and each week they will be delivered by the postman{e}. Here's a quick tutorial. I decided to post about this in the middle of making it so there aren't many detailed photos.
Supplies:
double sided scrapbook paper
adhesive
dimensional stickers
label punches
ribbon
exacto knife
coordinating plain card stock
white cardstock
mailbox tin
Start by measuring your mailbox and cutting a strip of car stock to fit. Lay paper over box and poke a hole where flag pins into the box. trim the paper so it slides down past the flag
Adhere the paper to the mailbox with really good adhesive. I used glue dots {strip}. Then trim off the excess paper with an exacto knife.
Next, place the mailbox on the paper and cut it out like your tracing it. Do this for both ends.
Put a lot of adhesive around the edges of the end pieces and adhere to the mailbox.
Be sure to put extra adhesive by the pull on the front of the mailbox.
Put adhesive on the ribbon and adhere it to the edges of the mailbox at trim. Like below.
Next use a square punch and punch out two square from the plain color card stock. Adhere those with glue dots to the flag.
I have a stamp set{office accoutrament} from stampin' up that i used on the flag with white embossing powder. Then, punch another square label and print {kind notes-for someone special} on the white card stock and punch out with a long punch and adhere on the top of the square label. Lastly, decorate with any cute dimensional stickers.
