Recycled Cardboard Shelf

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Recycled Cardboard Shelf - finished shelf Have extra shoe boxes? Another simple and free project you can make is a recycled cardboard shelf. It is ideal for lightweight items; perfect to toss your wallet and keys, or mail on.

My fiancé always misplaces his keys and wallet so I thought this would be a perfect spot for him to toss his stuff. The card is one I made for my dad that we will be giving to him tomorrow (so it's like a reminder shelf!)

Total Time: 1 hour

Supplies:

shoe box
X-acto Knife
scissors
ruler
pen
hot glue
glue stick
scrapbook paper - optional
decorative tape - optional
photo paper - optional
clothespin - optional

Steps:

Using your X-acto knife, carefully cut off the lid of your shoe box.

Use an X-acto knife or scissors to cut out a flap on the top of your shoe box.

Recycled Cardboard Shelf - cut out a flap

On both sides of the box, use a ruler and draw a diagonal line from one edge to the other. Then cut out with scissors.

Recycled Cardboard Shelf - draw a line from the open corners up to the top back cornes

Recycled Cardboard Shelf - cut along the line

Recycled Cardboard Shelf - diagonally cut end

Depending on the shoe box you use, the side flaps may become loose and that is fine because we will hot glue the sides later. In the meantime you can use clothespins to hold in place.

Recycled Cardboard Shelf - ends may be loose

Recycled Cardboard Shelf - end opening up

At this point, you can paint your cardboard shelf, or decorate with paper. I decided to decorate my shelf with paper, however a 12" x 12" scrapbook paper does not fit exactly. At the edges, I used photo paper, cut to size and glued down.