Guest Designer Post by Vikki

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VIKKI

Hi All

I have just finished making a 24 drawer tower.  It was something that I thought I could make as an advent calendar but as I haven't got any christmas paper here I had to use what I have got.  I started by making 24 matchboxes.............

I stuck them together is stacks of 6 and arranged them in a square..................

I stuck them to a chipboard base and then put a lid on to stabilise them and I made some tabs to glue the sides of the matchboxes to the inside of the drawer.  That gave it strength and the I covered the insides of the drawers and put little ribbon pulls on the drawer fronts so that the drawers were easy to open.............

Completed box................

These are a couple of side views.........

And finally the lid......................

I made my matchboxes to measure 2"x3"x1" so I cut my drawer paper to 4"x5" and scored 1" in on all sides.  My outer matchboxes that made the recepticle for the drawer were cut at 3"x9" and scored at 1/2", 1 5/8, 4 6/8 and 5 7/8.  That gives you 1/2" overlap to glue down and complete the recepticle for the drawer.  I glued the recepticles together in stacks of 6.

I hope this helps.  With some of the offcuts from the bigger size 24 drawer stack I made a smaller 24 drawer stack and will post photos when I am done.
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 kelsieskrafts.blogspot.co.uk