Thursday 5 January 2012

Gingersnap Creations Challenge - Use a Set

Happy New Year! Sorry for being a little quiet, a combination of the bug which dragged on and then going up to stay with Colin's family for Christmas.

I was lucky enough to get some gorgeous crafting goodies from my play-date buddies, Pauline, Petra, and Jack, and I will be blogging what I make with them over the next few weeks. Pauline bought me some Hunkydory steam punk card and vellum, and a set by Kaisercraft called Bonjour, consisting of rub ons, papers, stamps, and die cuts, featuring Eiffel Towers, birds, and butterflies in ice cream colours - absolutely divine! Gingersnaps challenge is to Use a Set, so I thought this matching set would be ideal. I decided to make a trinket box as a thank you gift for Pauline:-
The wooden box itself was one of my presents from Colin, and he also gave me some of the new Fresco Finish paint colours. This lovely duck egg blue is called Beach Hut. I used the stamp set behind the apertures. The Eiffel Tower is a rub on, but I applied it to a piece of clear packaging material and then cut round it, so that I could overlap it.
I edged the box with gold pen, and decorated the sides with some of the co-ordinating die cuts.

20 comments:

  1. you are invited to follow my blog

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  2. Wonderful box and such a serene colour :)
    Hope your feeling better now
    Von xxx

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  3. The box is gorgeous, love the colours. They have such a lovely spring feel to it.

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  4. Love the decorated boc Lucy and a Happy New year to you !

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  5. What lovely pressies you got and what a fantastic job you have made of the box using them. I love that fresco paint colour - divine.
    luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

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  6. So pretty! I love how you decked out this box with gorgeous images, lovely embellishments and beautiful colors!

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  7. Welcome back, Lucy! Hope the New Year will be amazing! Love that gorgeous trinket box with all the lovely images. Very clever how you added the Eiffel Tower! Have a great evening!

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  8. Gorgeous gift box! Lucky Pauline! Beautiful colours and I love those stamps!

    Debbie
    ^..^

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  9. What a wonderful box, Lucy!

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  10. This is just gorgeous, beautiful colours and images. xx

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  11. Perfectly divine! Pauline will love it! x

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  12. Well, you put your goodies to good use,this is a beauty. Hope you're feeling much better now, bugs are bummers.

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  13. SO pretty, Lucy!

    It seems like EVERYONE has been a little (or a lot) sick lately, ugh, glad you're better!

    :)

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  14. Lucky you Lucy. What a lovely box and you have decorated it beautifully. xx

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  15. This is so beautiful. Looking forward to getting together soon. xx

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  16. Hi Lucy. Happy New Year! Gorgeous box. Love the colour.
    Regards Florence x

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  17. This is so beautiful.... love that blue! And very clever the way you were able to include the rub-on this way.

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  18. Lucy this is just a gorgeous decorated box - love the "bird" theme and great colourings!!

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