"Friends" Themed Paper Organizer

This is for Day 7 of 30 Days of Creativity with the theme of "Friends".  I chose to make a file organizer (but could also be used as a magazine holder) for my son's college papers out of a cereal box and cover it will a collage of pictures of him and his friends.

Items used:

• Cereal box (I used Captain Crunch)
• Scissors
• 8-12 photos
• Glue stick
• Clear Contact paper

Cut the top off of the box and cut at an angle on each side and straight across the front.

Pick out the photos you want to use and arrange them on the box then glue down.

Apply clear Contact paper (I purchased mine at Dollar Tree for $1) over the photos.

Embellish With Cutouts From A Cereal Box

 Give your craft or package a scrapbook look for no cost by upcycling an old cereal box.

The above embellishments used to be part of a box of Mini Wheats glued on an used bubble wrap envelope for a no-cost gift wrap, but it could be used on other projects as well.

When I was cutting out the tokens for the free DVD promotion is hit me to try to decorate a package with the colorful parts off the box.

Items used:

• Cereal box
• Scissors
• Glue or Glue Stick
• Bottle Caps
• Ink pen or pencil
  

I cut out letters from the box into squares of letters and strip from the side for the top of the box.   As there was no letter "i" on the box, I improvised by using a other parts on the box to create the letter.

To make the circles,  I traces around the cap off of a bottle of soda.