Attention, Crafters!

[the_other_sandy]

I need to borrow someone else's skills and creativity since mine are largely limited to cross-stitching. My library is getting rid of a whole lot of small plastic magazine-type storage boxes (the kind that let you neatly store magazines upright and spine out like books) that are about the perfect size for storing digest-sized zines, which is something I've been looking for for ages.

The problem is that these plastic boxes are a hideous mustard yellow and have seen many decades of heavy use in a public library. I plan to give them a thorough washing, but that won't fix the mustard yellow problem. I know Krylon makes a spray paint just for plastic, but I've had problems with paper embedding itself into paint and becoming one with the painted surface before and I don't want that to happen to my zine covers. Will that be an issue with the Krylon for plastic? I'm also up for any other suggestions to make these boxes look more decorative and less ugly. The Krylon just happened to be the only thing I could think of (hence me needing to borrow someone else's skills and creativity).

Any ideas, magic flist?

Comments

[jennetj.livejournal.com]

You can always try contact paper or, barring finding contact paper that looks decent, find some cool "Paper Source" type paper (look at the scrapbooking papers at Michaels), or wrapping paper, cut to fit, then cover it with clear contact paper. Nice looking, and pretty durable. Any place that sells paint probably also sells contact paper.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

There's such a thing as clear contact paper? I feel a whole new world of possibilities opening up before me. Thanks!

[samazon13.livejournal.com]

I was also going to suggest wrapping paper. But contact paper is an even better solution - less scotch tape involved. :)

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I spent Saturday on a fruitless quest for non-ugly contact paper or wrapping paper without success. I'm starting to lean toward spray-painting the outsides, then using white contact paper on the insides, which is where I don't want paint in contact with my zines.

I'm pretty durned sure we've found some of it somewhere

[bit-boy.livejournal.com]

We'd used it at one point for the VHS rack that used to be in the stairwell going to the basement, I think. Give us the weekend, and we'll see if we can point you to some Sunday when you come over.

Re: I'm pretty durned sure we've found some of it somewhere

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I know I have some nice contact paper with an ivy pattern on it somewhere (left over from papering my desk drawers 15 years ago), but I doubt I have enough to cover 10 magazine boxes.