life is good

Today at Crafts 4 Eternity we have a lilac, green and grey colour challenge. I will leave the challenge police to decide whether my green is green, bluey green or blue as I was going boss-eyed thinking about it!

I haven't made a box for ages, so I decided to make a box for this one.

Here is the top.

I've used my Nesties ~ Grand labels die to make the top and base of the box. The wooden birdcage is from the Pink Paislee ~ Butterfly Collection. I've embossed it and inked it and smeared paint on it until it ended up looking like this. The flowers have had a good spritzing of glimmer mist, so they do sparkle, but that is not showing up in these photos.

Here is the right hand side.

I have used Melissa Frances ~ 5th Avenue papers throughout.

The back of the box.

I've also used strips of Tim Holtz ~ Tissue Tape in places.

This is the left hand side of the box.

I have used a Tim Holtz ~ Corked Vial removed the cork and filled it with flowers. I glued them in to stop them falling out, added some gems and a little crochet doily.

To make the drawers, I used my Sizzix ~ Matchbox die.

Here is the first drawer.

The second drawer.

And the third drawer.

Here are all the drawers together.

I am going to pop this in at the following challenges:

• Wrap it up ~ Crazy 4 Challenges
• Rectangle ~ Paper Sundaes
• C for crochet flowers ~ ABC Challenge
• Punches & Dies ~ Dutch Dare
• Bingo recipe: brads (on the drawers), flowers, buttons ~ Truly Scrumptious

 Thank you for looking.


keeley