April 25, 2010
Boxes, Boxes, Boxes
The company I work for is moving offices next week so this week has involved packing loads of crates and sorting out files - which has been a nightmare while trying to carry on with day to day work as well. Not had much time to do any crafting :( One of the presents for my older DD's birthday was in a plain black gift box, which I thought was rather boring, so I jazzed it up a bit:
I gave it a coat of transparent Croco Paint (for Carmen, here is a link to the product page for it at The Craft Barn, basically it's a crackle medium which you can get in colours or tranparent. I like it better than any of the other crackle paints and mediums I have tried because I get a great effect with it). Anyway, once that was dry I spritzed it with lots of different cosmic shimmer mists. Can't remember all of them but I know I used Mallow Blush, Golden Fish and Peacock. I took a chipboard shape and covered that with Blackberry Ferro which I then stamped with a text stamp. I gave that a couple of spritzes with different shimmer mists as well, then rubbed some treasure wax over the top too. It looks better than plain black, anyway!
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2 comments:
Aah, I've missed you this week! I hate office moves while you have to keep working!! (done at least 3)
LOVE this box, it looks just amazing. I have got to get some transparent croco, I only found out recently it was available. Wonder if I can wait till I go to the Craft Barn in June (extravaganza) to get some... no, Worthing is in 2 weeks, that'll do, must be some there!!
Thanks Kay - looking at the effect I should have 'got' it by the name really :D It is a gorgeous box! I really love all the different colours you can see in it.
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