There is no need to buy an expensive light box if you will only use it once in a while. This one should be $10 or less.Materials:
shallow storage container with a rigid white lid
string of lights (miniature lights will do also)
Cut a hole out of the side of the box. Thread the plug through the hole. If you heat the plastic with a heat gun before you cut the hole, it will cut more easily and won't crack.
Cut a hole out of the side of the box. Thread the plug through the hole. If you heat the plastic with a heat gun before you cut the hole, it will cut more easily and won't crack.Plug in the lights and voila!
Tips:
The advantage of this light box is that you can store all your stencils and materials in it when you are between projects
5 comments:
Oh I like this one too!
Ok so I clicked over here from One Pretty Thing and I feel really dumb asking this because I'm probably the only one but...
...what do you use this for?
When I clicked over I was under the impression it was a lightbox for photographing food, crafts, etc (I made one myself to take pics of my food projects).
But I totally don't know what this is for!
*sheepish and blonde*
Help!
I'm wondering the same thing. What is this for?
If you go to my full blog..(do this by removing everything but http://www.cantstopmakingthings.com) you will see that the post before this talks about light boxes used for tracing and embossing. It's odd that the same name is applied to 2 completely different objects with totally different uses.
I made this just to see if what I thought would happen would happen and it did!
the lights melted the bottom of the plastic box with little indentations of where they were lying...
maybe I should have put a double sheet of heavy duty foil on the bottom first...
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