Princess Collection Cell Phone Box

I finished the next albums in a phone box. This is addicting, but I'm running out of boxes! This is the last one I saved the inserts for, so on the next one, I'm going to have to make my own inserts.

This was a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 box. It had a slip cover, but it was such a tight fit that I wouldn't be able to decorate the box if I used the slip cover.

I could only get the 8x8 pad and some of the stickers and diecuts for this one. It is the G45 Princess Collection.

Some of the inserts in this box weren't good for album making, so I saved what could be used, and cut away the rest.

Hopefully these albums will give you ideas for using your own boxes!

This is the box.

The box has a wrap around front and sides with a tab that tucks into the box bottom. In the big compartment, is a shallow box with a flap on it.

Under the shallow box is a plastic tray that held the phone, so I made an album for that. (Sorry, I put it in upside down when I took the photo)

This shows the shallow box with the flap. I put mats in each side of the flap for journaling or photos. Next to it is the accordion album that sat in the plastic tray, and the paper I put under it in the try.

This shows the sewn binding album I put into the shallow box, the accordion album, and the big box.

Underneath the phone tray was a small covered box, and originally it had inserts for USB plugs and things. Since those weren't really usable for the albums, I cut those out and taped the little covered box back into the top. There is an album below the box, and one inside the box.

The two albums below are the ones that were inside the box and below it. I don't really like the one on the bottom left. I was trying to use a chipbpard die cut for decoration, but it would have looked better with fancy paper, so I will probably change it.

Bird Song Albums in a Cell Phone Box

I finished another set of albums in a cell phone box. This box was set up much differently from the last one. I'm glad I kept all the inserts that were in this box. At first I wasn't sure how to use them, but then I figured out how to use them as secret compartments for the mini albums.

This set uses the G45 Bird Song Collection.

To see all the cell phone boxes, and get ideas for using other types of cell phone boxes, click on the label below this post.

This is the box closed. The box was a very old HTC HD2 box.

This is the box opened. It has a tray that originally held the cellphone. I decided to decorate the tray, then put a little mini album in the hole that held the phone.

This is the mini album that I made to go into the hole, and the paper I used under the album.

It isn't obvious that the tray can be removed easily, so this is the secret compartment. Under the hole for the phone, on the left, there was a box that had a lot of room left to make another mini album, so I put one inside there. Then there was still plenty of room in the box itself for another album.

These are the two mini albums. The small one was in the box that was under the tray, and the one on the right was in the big box.

The first album is an accordion album, the second one is a sewn binding album, and the third one, has pages that flip alternately in both directions. These are basically the same types of albums I put in the first box I decorated.

I hope these will inspire you to decorate your own boxes!

Albums and Journals in Fancy Boxes Bloom Collection Box

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a really long time, but I not only have cancer, but have been really busy lately.

I wanted to share this one with you before Christmas gets here, in case you, or someone in your family gets a cell phone for Christmas, and the phone comes in a really nice box. I didn't save the inserts in the first boxes I got, but later on started saving those as well, because a lot of them have really neat cubby holes to put albums in. I wish I had saved them all!

The boxes cell phones come in, (and other electronics as well), are sometimes really nice. I have always saved the really nice ones because I had planned on decorating them at some point. I had a few tiny ones from small electronics that I decorated and put tiny mini albums into a few years ago. Unfortunately, I never took pictures of those.

I just finished this larger one, and am really happy with it. I may add ribbons and other embellishments later.

This year, for my birthday, and more coming for Christmas, I got a lot of Graphic 45 papers and embellishments, and I am drooling over them! The papers I used on this one are the G45 Bloom Collection, and they are gorgeous! The most interesting box I had was one that an LG V20 came in quite a few years ago. It has a slipcase that is large enough to slide on over the box even when the box is decorated.

When you open the box, it is a trifold, with one substantial uncovered box on the left, a small narrow upright substantial uncovered box in the bottom middle, and on the right, another less substantial covered box at the top.

This is the slip cover with the box inside. I will probably add a few embellishments later.

The box and slip cover together.

When you open the trifold box, you will see these. I made an accordion album to go into the long box on the left. I will put either a ribbon, or a belly band to go around it.
The lower box in the middle, has a three inch flip flap type album in it.
The one at the top right has a three inch album with a sewn binding in it. Each album has a lot of pages, because they are each approximately one inch thick.

The albums taken out of the boxes.

To decorate the boxes, look at them, and the inserts, and try to imagine what would work to hold little mini albums inside. I will post more, from different types of cellphones in later posts, to give you ideas. Look at the Labels below this post and click on cell phone boxes to see them all.

Once you have decided which parts you will use, measure them and make mats 1/4" smaller than the part of the box you will be decorating. Then make up some mini albums the same size as the mats to go into each compartment. Next, mat each page in the mini albums, 1/4" smaller than the page.

I hope you will like these, and will try some of your own. They are really addicting!