An Altered Matchbook

Good Morning

Today I would like to share with you an Altered Matchbox made with the gorgeous Graphic 45 Secret Garden papers. This project was made during a workshop with the fabulously talented Gwen from The Stamp Pad in Saddleworth.

 This photo is a bit rubbish, it was aimed to show how the sheet of paper with lots of small designs of stamps were cut up and used as accents on the piece.

This next picture shows how we cut a rose, ribbon and key from the patterned  paper. These were then enamelled with Glossy accents and left to dry. This was then stuck to the left hand iside of the matchbook.

This is the 'drawer' of the matchbox. It was covered with papers from the range. We then carefully cut out the image of the little picking flowers in the garden. I then cut out a further piece of the Fence picture from another piece of the papers, and stood this in frount of the girl with a foam pad.

This is the finished project. The decoration on the top is a metal corner decoration which was painted in the same blue paint to coordinate with the project.

This is something which I don't normally do, but really enjoyed it. Must remember to do things for me more often :)

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Inside the Secret Pocket

Good Morning

Today I would like to share with you the mini book which goes inside the secret pocket!

The book was made up from sectrion of brown Kraft Card. The book was covered with the same Graphic 45 papers as we used to decorate the envelope box.

 The kraft card was simply folded together to give lots of places to put photos, quotes or just little messages for your loved one.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Envelope box

Good morning

Today I would like to share with you all another project from Rosemary Merry' Retreat.

This one is a box of goodies made up from envelopes. To make this we had to put the envelopes on top of each other, not straight, but in a random messyness! Why did all mine end up straight! When I want them straight, they won't go straight! The edges of the cream envelopes were inked with vintage photo distress ink.
The envelopes were stacked together with foam pads.

The middle section of the envelopes were cut away to provide a secret pocket. The embellishment on this project have been hand cut from Graphic 45 Kraft collection papers.

The blue washi tape section shows where the secret pocket is within the project.

The last picture shows a small keepsake book within the secret pocket. More about this book later :)

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill