Hi everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Ours was great even if we had massive amounts of rain it was still nice to be able to spend it with family. 🙂
After taking a tiny break from social media I am back to share a project I created for a swap I was in with my sweet friend Lisa on Swap-bot.
For this swap we agreed to alter a small cigar box and fill it with planner goodies.
Since one of Lisa’s favorite colors is pink I went with a dusty colored cardstock from My Mind’s Eye for the outside of the box. The image I found on Tammy Tutterow’s site. I sized it down, printed and fussy cut out. I used a combination of buttons, dew drops, store bought and handmade flowers to decorate the lid.
The inside of the box I used the rest of the My Mind”s Eye cardstock and the vintage print cardstock is from a discontinued line from Canvas Corp. Also I forgot to mention that I painted the edges of the box with a cream colored paint (no need to paint the whole box since you won’t be seeing that 🙂 ) and used Antique Mod Podge to adhere all cardstock to the box. Once dry I applied a coat over the whole box to seal it.
The fun part was adding all the goodies. I added journaling cards, sticky notes, shaped paper clips, washi tape and a 4″ book ring so she can add her favorite washi tapes to so she can keep those close at hand. 🙂
There you have it my first project of the year! 🙂 If you have any questions please let me know.
Thanks for stopping by, hope your Thursday is wonderful and enjoy creating!
What a sweet gift! I love the color palette and the great vintage feel. Nice work!!!
Wow, wow, wow! This is just gorgeous!
OMG I love it!!
Lisa will love this, so very cool! Such great details and colors!
So pretty, I have become a follower and would love it if you would come and follow me, Many thanks from Carole your fellow TRN design team member. x http://theprettypaperpatisserie.blogspot.co.uk/
Thank you Kathy! 🙂
Thanks Chriss 🙂
Thank you Debra! 🙂
Aww thank you so much for the kind comments! 🙂
Thanks for the comments and for following Caroleanne! I hopped over to your blog and I am now following you too. 🙂