Neil Sedaka “Tzedakah” Box

My show “Style with a Smile” airs on the Home+ channel in Israel, so I’m pretty much an honorary Jew. I’ve been been learning a lot about Jewish traditions, and one of them is a Tzedakah box. Tzedakah means charity, which is a fundamental mitzvah in Jewish life, and a Tzedakah Box is used to collect money for charity.

Well, when I first heard the term Tzedakah box, I thought I heard Sedaka, as in Neil Sedaka. (According to Wikipedia, his last name actually is a variant of tzedakah.) So you know me and puns – I had to make a Sedaka/Tzedakah Box.

I used Eileen Hull’s Sizzix XL block/cube die, along with the Movers & Shapers Money Slot die to make the box. Then I printed images of Neil Sedaka albums onto a sheet of Craft Attitude printable film. I was able to put all six images for the six sides of the cube onto one sheet of Craft Attitude. (Remember to print in reverse.) Then I cut them up into six individual pieces of Craft Attitude and applied each image on the sides with some spray adhesive. I use Scotch Super 77. I did have to trim the Craft Attitude film that was over the coin slot. That was easy.

This is what the two pieces looked like before I assembled the box. I used Therm-o-Web iCraft adhesive sheets on the tabs to stick them together. I left one of the flaps unsealed, so you can still open the box and and take out the money for charity. And that, my friends, is the Neil Tzedaka box. It makes me verklempt!