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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Butterfly Box for Mum



Well it's Mothers Day tomorrow so I decided to make a little box for my Mum. Its base is actually one of those travel sweets tins. I have simply covered the side and lid of the tin with K&Co printed papers and used a piece of sticky ribbon to decorate the edge of the lid. The papers were tinted with various pink and blue Whispers dye inks and a blending tool to mute the colours.

The top is decorated with a paper flower I made by stamping randomly onto plain copier paper a butterfly stamp from Elusive Images with vintage sepia Versafine ink. The flower was made by cutting out 3 large and 3 small flower shaped pieces of the stamped paper colouring with the same colour dye inks and curling with a pair of scissors before assembling with mini sticky dots and adding a pearl to the centre.


A little plate and sprig of violet flower buds was also added. The inside is coated with black velvet making it a good little box for keeping jewellery in !
Hope she will like it :-)

The inspiration for this came from one of the UK Stampers forum members, Angelnorth.

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8 comments:

  1. I'm sure she will it is a beautiful box x

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  2. Gorgeous box Sid I love what you did with the flower. I must give it a go

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  3. Nice job, I'm sure she'll be happy with it. Interesting...Mother's Day in the US isn't until May. If she travels here then do you have to give her another gift?

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  4. great box Sid she will love it

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  5. oooh...what a lovely box! Hope it went down well with yor mother x

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  6. I'll bet your mother loved this. It's lovely. Beautiful flower.

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