I was inspired yesterday by some coffin gift boxes I saw on vampfangs.com. I was racking my brain trying to think of something cool to put our costume contest prizes in for our "Vampire Masquerade" when I stumbled accross the cardboard coffin boxes. They were relatively inexpensive, but since this is last minute and my party is this Saturday...I would have had to spend an arm and a leg to overnight them. I decided to try and make my own using cardboard boxes laying around the living room that I had from other Halloween Mail order items, and I made a quick trip to the fabric store. Bought 3 yards of satin cloth on sale for $1.00 /yd and 2 yds panne Velvet on sale for $2.50/yd.
If anyone's interested, I did remember to take a few pictures as I was making them. I'm not the best at this kinda thing but I don't think they turned out aweful. Some of you could really make these great!
My dh did something similar for our prizes. Unfortunately we couldn't get Vampire wine so we just went with a variety of reds. He made the coffin boxes out of plywood, stained them (1 black, the other 2 a browny/red) fitted the box with a foam outline for the bottles and then lined that with burgundy fabric. The boxes have a fitted lid and are tied with contrasting ribbon. There is still one to finish and I'll post pics of them then.
Coffin Prize Boxes
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