A postal-friendly upcycled box

Sometimes I like to work on postal-friendly decorated boxes just so I can send them off as surprise happy mail to bloggy friends (you know, folks who still enjoy snail mail *winks*).

I had this toiletries box from Yves Rocher with a lovely gold foil design on the front which I didn't want to cover up.

So I found some patterned paper with a similar gold foil to coordinate and adhered them to the edges and back of the box.

For the front, I covered the brand with a patterned paper cut-out and added some coordinating paper to the base to ground the piece.

I finished off by sliding back the bow that came with the box. :)

There you have it, a postal-friendly upcycled box.