ABAC9 - Christmas card boxes

 This week we at Anything But A Card challenge blog  have a pretty easy seasonal challenge for you! You can take the Challenge's light aspect and do something that represents light- candles, fire, sun, etc. lights, lamps, etc or do something related to a Winter Holiday.  The choice is yours!

I have hundreds of various cards just stashed away waiting to be mailed - so I decided to give them away this Christmas season. And to do it in style I'm making gift boxes for them. Here are 2 finished ones:

Each holds approx. 6 cards and envelopes (they could take more if the cards weren't embellished).
The one in the back is for 5.5" square cards and the front one for A2.
For the square one I used general instructions I found somewhere (don't remember the page), for the A2 I used this tutorial.

I'm also entering them in My Sheri Craft challenge - called It's a wrap

ABAC1 - Christmas star gift box

Whoohooo! It's finally here! The first  challenge on Anything But a Card Challenge Blog! We are keeping super easy: ANYTHING GOES! That's right- ANYTHING but a card! No restrictions! And you have 2 weeks to create something!

For my part I decided to alter a plain wooden box. I mixed PearlEx powders with ModPodge and painted the whole outside. The mixture is nice and thick and gives good coverage, so one layer was enough. To decorate the top some more I added some gold micro beads  while the ModPodge was still wet.
The russet flower was also painted with PearlEx/Mod Podge mix.

I'm also entering it into the following challenges:
Allsorts - anything but a square
Everybody Art Challenge - anything goes
The Stampman challenge - alter it

PSC27 - Me and My Pony Drawer Box

Welcome back! It's Sunday again (where do these days go?) and with it another Paper Sundae challenge - this week we want you to be creative and make your own flowers.
I really liked the tutorial for drawer boxes on SCS so I decided to make one this week. I used a stamp called Me and My Pony from Lili of the Valley - our sponsor for this week.
The sketch is from Lili of the Valley challenge blog - just flipped.The image was colored with distress inks and the designer papers are from SU. I made spiral flowers from the same double sided DP as I used on the box. Added a bit of stickles on the top of flowers and to some of the punched out branches to make them more interesting.
I'm entering it into Creatalicious Challenge - make something 3D and Crafty Catz Challenge - anything but a card.

I made several more cards with the same image to fill the box - I'll show them to you in my next post :)PS: If you would like to join us - Sundae Girls - check out Paper Sundaes DT call right here