Living abroad, I’ve created my share of care packages to send home. Who doesn’t love receiving snail mail? A package can brighten anyone’s day, but a beautiful package can leave the intended receiver beaming for weeks. My brother-in-law is currently living abroad for a couple of years so we decided to ship him some of his favorite Danish goodies in a little suitcase from the dollar store. Hopefully, your dollar store has a similar version. If not, you can use a simple cardboard box and attach the airmail PDF attached as decoration.
Materials:
suitcase, acrylic paint, angled paintbrush, scissors, care package goodies, masking tape
Step 1: Start by creating the air mail border on the box. I free-styled it with an angled paintbrush so that all you need is one stroke (like applying nail polish!). I started with the white and measured it every .5″ around.
Step 2: I added another coat of white paint.
Step 3: Now go in and add the blue on top to every other white strip. To get a super clean air mail effect, use the masking tape to create the lines and then peel them off.
Step 4: Add another coat of blue paint.
Step 5: Add in the care package goodies. I bought mini sized candy from Haribo, bouncy balls, a Rubiks cube keychain, a little notebook, a small package of potato chips, and licorice (the Danes’ favorite!).
Step 6: Cut out the air mail label (free PDF here) and apply with tape to the top of the box.
Step 7: Add on some cute stamps and send it on its way. I checked with the Danish Post to see if it was ok to send and they said it was, so hopefully it is where you are too.
Go make someone’s day!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
so cute! LOVE sending care packages!
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
SO CUTE! Love the suitcase!
GOLD / pomelo / 5167 posts
gahhhhh adorable!
cherry / 174 posts
this is SO SWEET!!!!!
pomelo / 5866 posts
Wow!!
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
Huh, that’s interesting! What about customs declarations?
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
That is just too cute!!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
ahhh this is so cute! i love sending care packages, but mine always come in janky cardboard boxes
guest
@Looch…there shouldn’t be anything different than normal custom declarations.
guest
Hello. I loved your idea and posted it on my blog http://www.bickiboo.com/blogs/news/10668625-ultimate-kids-care-package