ViaJoy

      I  love the look of old vintage suitcase and the many possibilities for storage. A few months ago, I was hurrying out of my driveway, when I spotted this suitcase. I couldn't pass this treasure out, specially that I have seen some for sale for more then 50 dollars. My treasure is in pretty good condition, so I just add a bit of color, without taking the vintage flair way                                                             

                                                               1.  Here is what I did:

                            Clean inside and out,  including letting it sit open outside in the sunshine.

                                                                 

        Bought  a variety  of scrapbook paper (on 50% off). To get the apperance of patchwork I used 7 different patterns of  the 12x12 in.  paper,and cut out each by 6x6 in.. That seem to work well for my project, my briefcase is about 28x21 in.

 

     I Started with the corner edges, and use modge pod. Is very important to keep smoothing over.

          For a nice  look in the edges, make little snips ,that will be overlap on the paper already in place. 

 

              The paper that is lifted, should be glue after the bottow part is glued. 

                                                            After working with the corners, start to work on the top, then all the edges. For the edges I used I sharp knife to cut the extra paper.

                                                                                                                       All done!