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Tuesday, 1 December 2009

A gift box

It is one of my friend's birthday's soon and I always struggle to think of something to buy her so I have made her a nic-nac set of drawers.
I have managed to incorporate the following challenges ...
Totally Gorguss - Anything but a card
Stampin for the Weekend - silver and Lilac
Basic Grey - sketch (minus the sentiment)
Allsorts - buttons
I watercoloured this fab Gorguss girl and cut her out. The elements of the sketch are there, a little resized and the image is overlayed over them. The dp is matted onto silver cardstock and I added stickles to the edges of the box and glimmer misted and glamour dusted the flowers, with a little help from a heavy handed Beth!! I added two clear buttons stuck on with stickles so they sparkle.

Here's a close up of Beth's flowers - very glamoured!!!

For the sides of the box I painted the sides and drawers in silver and lilac ink and then matted the dp on to silver. The drawer handles are putrple, lilac and black, with lilac ric rac. I added clear buttons with lilac ribbon tied through to the centre of each panel.
Here's another view of it.
Hopefully it will go down well ... just need to wrap it up without leaving half the glamour dust in the wrapping LOL!!

I have had another clear out of my stamps and have listed some Sugar Nellies and a few others on Ebay. You can find them here if you are interested.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Sugar Nellie Gorguss Girl Flower Power
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Basic grey Wisteria
Embellishments: from stash

23 comments:

Milnie said...

Wonderfull adorable creation!!! Love the flowers en paper!

Hugs,

Melanie

Desire Fourie said...

Oh wow, what a gorgeous little gift box with mini drawers and all. Your friend is going to treasure this forever.
Hugs
Desire

craftymum said...

"Gorjuss" trinket box Cathy. I have to say that because I made the trinket box for the DT entries!!!! Thanks for joining us at TG, and do play along next week. Don't forget to check out the DT blogs too
Love Sarah W XXX

Suzie said...

This is beautiful I am sure your friend will love it. Thanks for joining us at Totally Gorjuss. Suzie x

Vicki (basement stamper) said...

WOWZER!! What a really stunning project Kathy!! I love this!HUGS

Wishcraft said...

Wow this is stunning! I'm sure your friend will love it. Thanks for joining us at Totally Gorjuss :o) Lisa x

Linnie said...

Sooo Pretty i love it
Thankyou for joining us at TG this weeek
linniexx

Kat said...

This is beautiful Cathy. I love it and so will your friend. Thanks for joining us on TG this week and hope to see you again.

Kat x

Uma said...

brilliant, I bet the recipient will be over the moon!

Helen said...

Wow - this is beautiful Cathy! Your friend will love it!
Helen x

Biscuitlid said...

what a very gorgeous gift and creation in one. Lucky friend!

Victoria
x

Michele Spera said...

Love your cute box here!!! the colors are wonderful:-) thanks for joining in the fun at TG this week
Xmichele

Jules said...

Hi Cathy

I am sure that your friend will love this.

I wonder what she will keep in those special little drawers.

Great colours and detail.

Thank you for sharing with Allsorts this week.

Love Jules xx

CraftyC said...

Wow Cathy, stunning piece. I be so thrilled to receive something as beautiful!!
Clairexx

debby4000 said...

Oh this is gorgeous, love the colours.
luv
Debby

Cheryl said...

wow wow this is utterly brilliant gosh some lucky person will be over the moon to get this as its just stunning so love those colurs too hugs cheryl xxxx

cats whiskers said...

Can you believe what a bad blogger I am, sorry for not visiting in the last couple of days. I just adore this lovely creation dear, fabulous colouring
Hugs Jacqui x

Gunn (Merete) said...

This is a fantastic project, lots of work. Love the layout, paper are great and this is just gorjuss.
Thanks for joining SFTW and good luck.
Gunn :-D

Samantha said...

WOW your friend is lucky thats beautiful! :0)

Riet said...

What beautiful Cathy,i love the image and colours.
So gorgeous papers and flowers.

Hugs Riet.x

Barbara said...

This is gorgeous Cathy, I'm sure your friend will be delighted with it. The flowers are great with all the glamour dust.
Thanks for joining us on Totally Gorjuss this week and good luck
Barbara

Anne said...

So beautiful!! Adorable details!

Hugs, Anne

kim-paperbabe said...

Wow Cathy fabulous take on the sketch, gorgeous colours and cute gift box thanks for joining us at Basic Grey challenges, HuGs Kim :)