Save Your Tissue Boxes To Create Stunning Floral Decor To Beautify Your Home

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If you're looking for a way to reuse empty tissue boxes and you love having cut flowers around your home, this unique DIY planter box is for you. To create stunning floral décor to beautify your home, all you need is a tissue box, decoupage glue, disposable plastic party cups, and some ripped newsprint strips — as wide or narrow as you want. If you're not persuaded about flowers, here's why you should be keeping fresh flowers in your home year-round.

This craft works nicely using rectangular tissue boxes with a rectangular slot, though square tissue boxes are also fun. Pull out and discard the plastic and reshape the hole into a rectangle that gives you enough space to place the cups into the box. Check the height of the cups and trim them down if they are too tall. Pop them into your box and you're ready to start decorating.

Apply the newsprint in overlapping sections using the glue and a brush, such as the Mod Podge Decoupage brushes. Be generous with the glue as it creates a hard shell when it dries. Finish off your box by gluing a leather strap around the lower edge, approximately an inch from the bottom using hot glue. Decorate with small, light drawer knobs placed centrally on each end. Fill the cups with water and place your cut flowers into the cups. Control the ends of the flower stems with a small elastic band as this will keep them together when you place them into the cups.

There's nothing that's quite as special as getting a gift that is made just for you. Whatever the occasion, you can adapt these gorgeous flower arrangement holders to be spot-on gifts; easily personalize them to solve your what-can-I-give woes all year round. If you have newspaper clippings of special dates such as wedding or birth announcements, place the date and headline front and center as a special touch. 

Swap out the newsprint for napkins and make birthday wishes linger by using these Crisky Wildflower Floral Gold Foil Napkins. As napkins don't give the same coverage as newsprint, you may need to build up layers of a different color napkin to hide the tissue box design before adding a happy birthday napkin. Instead of a leather strip, glue on a length of velvet ribbon that picks up on the colors in the design. If you're hosting a dinner, you can incorporate this as one of the fun tablescape ideas for every occasion. Match colors or highlight the event in the design of your tissue box as a floral décor centerpiece. With some out-of-the-box thinking, pun intended, you can also add recycled tissue box planters to your list of creative housewarming gift ideas that any person will love.