Monday, March 14, 2011

Flower gift box

Hallo,

And welcome to another Monday morning, I am headed to bed shortly...I may have to take a short walk before bed - the weather is so pretty this am!!!!

I was planning on going for a ride on the motorcycle yesterday with the DH but overslept and didn't wake until he was about to roll out the door....he didn't want to wake me, knowing that I had to work last night.... both the kids were volunteering at a function for ROTC all afternoon, so I headed off to the craft room (well after sitting on the porch with my tea and the computer to check email and do some blog surfing - can you say Ahhhhh :).

So I did up this box to match a couple cards I made, both of which is for a gift. (I accually plan to do 2 more similar boxes this week - one for my MIL who has a Birthday coming up and while I am at it, one for my Mom for Mother's Day....).



This is a cigar box that I covered with some pretty DP. The main image is from Flourishes - colored with copics. I just love all the flower stamps from Flourishes!!!

I am entering this for 2 challenges over at Flourishes - www.flourishes.com/blog

One - The Timeless Tuesday challenge was to use stitching.....Well my stitching is faux stitching and kinda , well not straight....but if I had to accually use the sewing machine then you would really see some messed up stitches.....(me an sewing machine don't get along so well :).

And the other is for this months release challenge over at Flourishes for 'a cut above' to use dies cuts or a cut edge or border. I used a Spellbinders die cut for the main image and a MS punch for the 2 yellow scalloped borders.
The inside of the box is lined with yellow felt and a bit of cream colored trim, which I also used on the cover and for the 'pull' to open the box.

All for today!!!!

Take Care

Tera


























5 comments:

Cindy Haffner said...

What a BEAUTY!!~

Dawn B. said...

This is so pretty. Sounds like you had a great day..Thanks for joining us at Flourishes. Hope to see you Thursday night at the release party on Splitcoaststampers.

Stacy Morgan said...

This is lovely and great cut work. Thanks for playing in Flourishes A cut above the rest challenge.

ChristineCreations said...

What absolutely beautiful coloring Tera! What a treasured gift this will be!

Leslie Miller said...

I love this image and you've colored it so beautifully! Oh, what a wonderful box! What treasures it could hold! I'm just a bit in awe here. Thank you so much for joining us at Flourishes!