Vintage Suitcase Table

I've been admiring all the things out there on Pinterest made from vintage suitcases, so when I saw a suitcase at a garage sale that was cute and clean and in good condition, I snapped it up.  Then it sat around in the garage for a while, waiting for inspiration.  In the meantime, I was still garage sale-ing and going to auctions, where I found a rusty metal stand.  I'm not even sure what it was used for, but when I was looking at all the things accumulating in the garage, I noticed that the stand was about the size of the suitcase.  Hark!  It was the perfect size for the suitcase!

I sanded down the rusting metal stand and gave it a fresh coat of brown Rustoleum spray paint.

I attached the suitcase to the stand by drilling 8 small holes in the upper corners of the bottom on the suitcase, and then used those plastic zip ties to attach the suitcase to the stand.  It came out really secure and sturdy.  Then I kept looking at for a few days, thinking something was missing.  It was too plain and was lacking some pizzaz.

I looked for some old travel labels or old stamps, but couldn't find anything I liked, so I looked in the scrapbook section.  I found some beautiful paper and cute travel related stickers.  I affixed the paper to the top of the suitcase with spray adhesive, put stickers on randomly, and then gave it three coats of polyurethane on top to seal the paper.  Perfection!