Upcycle Design, Milk Carton Coin Purse

Coin purse - milk carton

What you need: milk carton

The paper used for milk carton is high grade heavy weight paper. It's even laminated for water proofing. The lamination makes it harder to recycle them. But why just throw them away? It's a perfect material for easy but useful projects.

This isthe simpliest milk carton project on this website. It does not require any glue.

Materials:

milk carton - 1
velcro (with sticky back, color of your choice)

Tools:

micron pen (or any fine pointed water based ink pen)
exacto knife
ruler (for majoring)
prepared chopstick (for scoring folding groove on the paper)
erasor


1.Tools needed for the job. The red China marker is actually not necessary. The marks made with water based pen can be erased with an erasor thanks to the lamination on the paper.	2. The point of bamboo chopstick is carved to make a blunt point suitable for scoring the folding groove on the paper.	3. One Milk carton.	4. Mark the lines lightly where you will cut and fold with micron pen. If you are using waterbased ink pen, you should be able to erase them afterwards thanks to the lamination on the paper.	5. Start cutting out the lines with the exhacto knife.

6. Now the cutting is done.	7. Another view.	8. You'd want to use ruler for grooving foling lines to make the folding neat.	9. Score a groove with the point of the chopstick.	10. Do the triangle foldings of the outside as well. The side you score the groove will be the side you'll fold them in.

11. See where are folded.	12. Gently rub eraser on the line marks for better finish. Be carful not to erase the prints on the carton.	13. The foldings are tacked inside.	14 . Add sticky velcros to fasten the purse.	15. When the purse is closed.

cut red lines. fold green lines.