Tuesday, August 16, 2011

SOS13 - Weakest link - Flowers

Do you have the best intentions of not buying anything new but seem to always "fall" for a certain company release or item? Then we a perfect challenge for you. Today's Shopping Our Stash is called Weakest link and we want you to use the thing/s you can't live without ;)

My weakest point is flowers - Wild Orchid, Prima, any kind - I buy WAAAAYYY to many of them (especially when I see some on sale) and then of course have no time to use them all. Today I made 2 projects with them and didn't even make a dent in my flower stash ;)

Both boxes started as plain untreated wooden ones from dollar store - the first one was sprayed with several layers of Glimmer Mist, the pink one was painted with acrylic paint. I used hot glue to attach the flowers and leaves - the big white and gold flowers are Recollection (from Michaels), other flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. Leaves are Recollection too.
On the side of the pink box I stenciled some flowers with Memento ink - first time I used stencil and it turned out quite ok ;)
Challenges:
Crafty Purple Frog - Anything but a card
Allsorts - Anything but a card

8 comments:

sara said...

did someone mention a flower addiction !!! definately my weak point too well one of them anyway along with stamps and papers !! seriously gorgeous flowers here alica loving those white and gold glittery ones i want them !! its not fair i keep seeing all these fab things people get from michaels wish we had them in the uk !! fab boxes looks like you had a lot fun decorating them
hugs sara x x x

Mona`s Bittelille Scrappekrok said...

OMG!!!!Loooove both of these!!! Fantastic alterations. Thanks for playing with us at the Crafty Purple Frog. Hugs...Mona

paige said...

Beautiful boxes Alica! A place for fun treasures!

CarlaKH said...

I really love these... what thoughtful gifts these would make too!

brenda said...

What a really pretty box.

Thank you for sharing with us at Allsorts this week and good luck.

B x

tiggertastic said...

what a clever and stunning make
Good luck in the challenges, hugs Sarah-Louise My Blog

Designing for:
Crafty Purple Frog , Sweet Pea Stampers ,Bearly Mine Designs , Kenny K and My Time To Craft

Debs said...

Very pretty boxes - stunning floral arrangements.
Thanks for playing along with us at Allsorts this week.
Good luck.
Debs xx

Emma (metalicbutterfly) said...

Really pretty boxes I love the unusual shape of the first one too!

Thanks for playing at Allsorts this week

Emma xxx

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