Donna Schafer's Stamping Station: Make your own marker case!

October 17, 2007

Make your own marker case!

So, I have all the wonderful SU! markers, but since I bought them one set at a time, I don't have a case for them. I've seen where you can buy the plastic case, but as I recall it was more than I wanted to pay. However, the markers were taking up too much room in my tool basket, so I needed to get them out of there. Here's what I came up with. Whatcha think?

I started with two pieces of heavy (non-corrugated) cardboard - a little thinner than our chipboard pieces, but not bendable.

Since the measurement all the way around all the marker cases was about 16 1/2 inches, I had to use two pieces - one for the top and one for the bottom. The bottom piece is 12 x 7" and the top is 6 1/4 x 7".

I found the center line of each piece and scored 1 1/8" out from the left and 1 1/8" out from the right of that center spot (because the marker cases measure 2 1/4" across). This gave me my corners. I then placed the markers inside to make sure they would fit.

Whew! They did.

I then put sticky strip all over the cardboard and adhered the patterned paper, keeping the corners bent while wrapping.

After the pieces were covered in paper, I put sticky strip on the inside bottom edges of the top piece. I then placed the markers inside the bottom piece, and put a rubber band around it (front to back) to hold the whole thing together while I adhered the top piece to the bottom piece (sorry, no picture of that step).

After that, I added the brads and ribbon for the handle at the top.

I also decided I needed to have something across the back to keep the markers from sliding out, so I used more jumbo brads and a strip of naturals white cardstock. These markers don't get moved around very much, and they fit in this case very snugly, so I'm confident that'll work fine.