LSH - Altered Valentine's Trinket Box

 

It's a wonderful Saturday here in Coatesville today. The temperature is 32 degrees and it's snowing.  It's a great day to craft for me... sitting in front of the window watching the snow flakes fall upon the ground, the trees and the street.  

I am participating in my first swap of 2013 ... LSH is hosting an altered valentine's trinket balsa/wooden box.  Well.. in an effort to get a "jump" on the projects I'm lining up for myself, I have completed the box... 

 Recipe:

• wooden box ($1.00) from Michaels
• Paper scraps 
• Ribbon scraps
• heart rope pearls, butterfly embellishment
• French sentiments 
• spools    

Steps:
I painted the box with gesso first and then water color red mixed with mod podge glossy, inside and outside.  I cut scraps down to size to fit inside the recesses of the box and on the top and underside.  I added 4 spools for legs under the box. Wrapping the lace first, then the braided ribbon and heart rope pearls around the box.   I also added the rope heart pearls around the top of the box accenting the butterfly embellishment.   Once that was all done, I added french sentiments to the finished box with a butterfly embellishment. 

The entire box too about 1 hour to finish (not accounting for drying time).

This was a fun box to create.  Now on to the card to send with it and some goodies to include inside the box. 


Snowy and Warm Regards,
Qadirah