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Thank you for visiting me today, I hope you see something here that you like. I love colouring digital images and I am on a few Design Teams.I am taking art classes with Kit and Clowder, and Make it Crafty. I hope maybe you will get some new ideas here or you can leave comments and links so I will be picking up new ideas from you. Anyway I will put on the kettle and have some cupcakes at the ready...

Thursday 8 September 2011

Treasure Box

I love these treasure boxes. I have had this stamp for some years now, it is one of my favourites.
I used
Creative expressions stamp HH1218L
versamark inkpad
Ivory pearlised cardstock
embossing powder
colouring pencils
crystal glitter
satin ribbon
flower from stash
posh tissue paper

First of all I stamped the image onto the card, used embossing powder and heated it. I made 7 of these panels and cut round each one.. Then I cut away the left hand tab from each panel and stuck them all together in a row. I coloured them in pastal shades and used a clear glue and crystal glitter. I stuck the final panels together and  I  cut a base and a top. I folded in the bottom panels, interweaving them and stuck the base inside the box. I found some posh tissue paper in Tesco's and 'artistically' crumpled it into the box. I laid the top onto the tissue paper and folded the tops of the panels interweaving them. Then I stamped, embossed, coloured, cut out and glittered a medallion and attached a long length of ribbon to it. When I closed the box and laid the medallion on the top I was able to wrap the ribbon round the box and tie it into a bow. Then a flower from my stash finished it off quite nicely.

30 comments:

  1. This is really beautiful. Lee xx

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  2. Absolutely beautiful.. Wendy xx

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  3. Ooh I used to have one of these stamps, don't know where on earth it is now though. You've made a gorgeous job of this box, love it.
    Debs xx Looks like Lee has posted the hop now!!

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  4. oh wow this is super ... love the papers you have used ... just doing a bit of blog hopping ... happy crafting and love sandy xx

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  5. Beautiful box - love the gorgeous soft pastel colours. I use a white linen look cardstock for my boxes the same weight as fior the card bases I get it in boxes like you get at the papermill but from a local craft shop Paperworks . I dont know if you ever got cardstock from the papermill but I guess it is about 240gsm.(The papermill here in NI has closed) I tried a heavier weight card but when you scored it it just cracked along the scoreline and didn't look good.
    Linda

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  6. Absolutely beautiful, you're v talented.
    This week's leapblog is on the craft talk forum, think it might have started a bit later than usual which might explain why you couldn't see it xx

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  7. Oh this is gorgeou, i mad one years ago for my mil and filled it with chocolates. Not made one since will have to have another go,

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  8. Sue, what an exquisite treasure box, your kitchen altered frames are also fantastic! Fi xx

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  9. Hi Sue,

    Beautiful box, lovely stamp you used.
    Thank you for visiting my blog just thought I would come and have a look at yours. Hope to see you agai, I will come back again to see you.
    Have a nice weekend
    Margaret

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  10. This is stunning. love it.

    Becky x

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  11. This is soooooo pretty, well done :O)Viv xx

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