Hello, I am honored to be a guest designer today on the Funkie Junkie Boutique blog! The current challenge is 'A Time to Be Grateful' which is a very worthy one! To help me focus on gratefulness, I created a little keeper using Eileen Hull's Post Box Die. Each day for the month of December I will write something I am grateful for on a slip of paper and pop it into the box. I think it will help me to be mindful of things and not just let the month blur by in a whirl.
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| I cut the slips of paper using Eileen Hull's retired Credit Card Sleeve die but you can cut them by hand with a trimmer etc. |
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| Back side of box |
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| I added a magnetic closure to the flap. |
After I finished my box, I realized that I didn't have any step by step photos! oops! I used the same techniques to make a card (below) so I could take pictures. So, imagine doing these steps on the Post Box Die cut out. ;-)
Step 1 - I spritzed my craft mat with Speckled Egg Distress Stain in both regular and Oxide stains. I dipped my background into it a few times, drying it with my heat tool each time. The far background trees I stamped in Distress Oxide Ink, Iced Spruce using the watercoloring stamping technique. (super easy!) Ink up your stamp, lightly mist with water and then stamp as usual. It gives a great watercolor effect.
I filled in the area under the stamped image with more Iced Spruce, using a blending tool.
Step 2 - A few weeks ago, one of Tim Holtz's Saturday Facebook Lives focused on making a stash of backgrounds that you could cut up into greens for your holiday projects. I used one of them (made with new the Rustic Wilderness color) to cut my foreground trees out of. It's handy to have a stash!
Step 3 - Assembling the background: For my original Post Box project, I glued the die cut trees around my stamped, then assembled box. Then I added the strip of Christmas Fabric tape around the bottom and topped it with a strip of the washi Trim Tape. For the card below, I mounted all the layers on a dark red mat layer.
Step 4 - I die cut the deer out of brown card stock and then embossed them with Vintage Photo Distress Glaze. I gives them a nice shine. On the card, I left the little fawn plain so it would contrast with the doe.
Final card:
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my post! I hope you join in the 'A Time to Be Grateful' challenge over on the Funkie Junkie blog. It is really important to remember all the things we do have to be thankful for, especially when times are tough. I am grateful that I can use my art to show what I'm thankful for! =)
Such a cool concept Lisa- I must remember to be grateful every day! Love the idea of your tree stash!
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