'Love, Dream, Live & Giggle' Altered Key Box

I started with a plain wooden key box that I purchased from Calico Crafts. I decided to alter it using the Kaiser craft base Coat release 2 collection of paper.

I started by painting the bare wood with a chocolate brown acrylic paint. I then cut the paper to fit the box, I mitered the edges to give it a neat look. I distressed all the edges of the paper quite heavily with Tim Holtz distress ink in 'walnut stain'. On the back side I used a piece of brick effect card stock that I bought from UK craft store hobbycraft.

I used a vintage trim all the way around the bottom of the cabinet / box as it was the perfect colour look that I was going for. All the rest of the trims and the doily I tea dyed. 

On the right hand side is a doily from my stash which I inked in the same 'vintage photo' distress ink as well as a small piece of trim which I tea dyed that was purchased from Shabbylicious on zibbet.

The left side follows the same pattern and I have used the other half of the doily from the right hand side as well as some more vintage lace and a piece of the same trim as on the right side.

On the top I used the same paper with the same distressing and decorated with a large prima flower as well as a hand made rosette shabby flower with a large button centre. I followed a tutorial for the rosette flower on youtube by Lavish Laces. I also used a vintage doily and a brown paper flower from my stash. 

The front has been papered the same as the rest of the box. I used a metal door pull that I purchased form ebay for the closure and stuck it on with e6000. I tea dyed the lace at the top and embellished with crochet doily, applique trims well as a number of embellishments & flowers from my stash. The title was made up of Tim Holtz word tickets.

The inside is papered with a different patterned paper from the same collection and I made a little pocket for the inside door to keep receipts in.

Here's the Video :)

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Kel xoxo

Alice In Wonderland Altered Mirror Box

I started out with a plain black wooden box with a mirror in the background and a silver coloured 'melting clock' I knew I wanted to so something Alice in Wonderland themed so I set about looking through Google images for things I could use as background papers.

All the checkered and diamond shaped papers on this box come from google images, re-sized and cut to fit. On the inside I stuck images from goggle of playing cards & they look really cool reflected i the mirror. All the images of people come from a book that I own that I scanned, re-sized, printed & fussy cut, as well as some of the smaller flower images.

The clock is from ebay and was pretty inexpensive all I did to it was paint it white. It is removable from the box so the batteries can be changed and still fully functioning.

All the flowers are hand made from miniature playing cards. I made the flowers up as I went along, just cutting out shapes and sticking them together until I was happy with them.

I used a lot of my favourite quotes from the book, typed up in word, printed in different fonts in red and black to go with my colour scheme.

I made a little card man from a minature playing card and fussy cut his head and hands from the scanned image from my book.

Another image from google was the door knob which I fussy cut and covered in glossy accents. 

I created a little flag pole with a small wooden dowel and added a quote in a hand cut flag shape to the top.

The cake, cup and chipboard words come from a company called 'tando creative' and I covered them in the paper from the back ground to coordinate. The words are also covered in glossy accents.

On the front I extended the image from the book by adding real miniature playing cards as if Alice was throwing them and added another hand made card man for a little fun.

The wooden mushrooms on the inside are also from ebay and I painted the bottom in white texture paint and the tops in red acrylic paint.

I used a metal key from my stash and painted it in black gesso to match my colour scheme and that lies on the floor in the front.

Please click here for the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uNGG5OW0gI

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Any questions please feel free to ask :)

Kel xoxo

Hi Everyone!

Well I have let my blog slip and forgotten all about it for a little while, some times life just gets in the way right?

Well, I have decided I am going to make a concerted effort to play catch up :) I am going to try my very best to do one post a week until we are all caught up.

The first project I will share with you today is 'Alice In Wonderland Altered Mirror Box' so look out for that later today.

If you are following me please leave me a comment just so that I know you are here and please feel free to share my blog with other friends that you think might be interested

Have a wonderful day

Kel XOXO

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Kel XOXO

Altered Tissue Box (Using Kaiser Craft 75 Cents Paper)

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and turned it into this:

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'Never Say Never' Graphic 45 Secret Garden Mini Album

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