Gift Wrap Tuesday - Heart Shaped Gift Box using Pagoda

Today I was asked to make a gift wrap or home decor item, I think this one can qualify for both, it would make a super gift wrap for a special wedding or anniversary gift, and look fabulous in a bedroom afterwards, just to hold bits and pieces ............

I started with a bare heart shaped box, the type you can buy in any craft store. This one is by Papermania in the UK, but I know that Michaels carries them in the USA. It is quite large, measuring 8" across it's widest point, so would hold a decent sized gift
I gave it three coats of a burgundy red acrylic paint, here it is drying after the first coat - acrylic paint has the advantage that it is very quick drying, and hardwearing too, so your project will stay looking good


I drew around the base of the box onto the reverse, white part of a sheet of DCWV paper (from the All Dressed Up stack), then cut just inside the line to get a perfect shaped lining for the inside of the box

While the last coat was drying, I cut out the screen from Pagoda at 10" in black (page 70 of the manual, shift)
then cut the main image out at the same size in pearlised white cardstock...................



I glued the two cuts together with a zig pen, and positioned them on top of the box, when I had fiddled around with the placement and was happy with the way it looked, I cut around the edges with a craft knife






.......................and ended up with this





Next, I cut out 4 flowers at 2 1/2", 6 at 2 1/4", and 6 at 2", out of a burgundy self-spot paper (Bo-Bunny), and cut the centres out of the pearly white cardstock (page 55 of the manual). I layered the flowers with foam pads to add dimension, and added 'silver' beads to the stamens





I randomly added trips of tiny metal beads to the screen








......................and added a gingham ribbon with a huge bow to the side of the box with double sided tacky tape








and of course I had to make a little tag to go with the box, using scraps of left over card. The tag was the kanji tag (shift) on page 57 of the manual, cut at 3"







So that's my project for today, I hope you've enjoyed it, I think it would look fabulous done in golden shades for a Golden wedding anniversary............or silver.................or in shades to tone with the recipients bedroom. Our bedroom is in shades of duckegg blue and oyster, and I am going to make one in these colours for the bathroom, and cover the finished box with mod podge to protect it before filling it with soaps - so pretty.


It's snowing here as I write this, we don't cope very well here with snow. Our climate is very moderate, we don't have harsh winters, or very hot summers, so we are not geared up to extremes. More than a couple of inches of snow, and the country grinds to a halt, buses and trains stop running, schools close...........you get the picture. So I have an important question to ask those of you who deal with the white stuff on a regular basis

How do you walk on snow without looking very silly?
I asked this on my blog a while back, but got no sensible answers, just a lot of laughter!!


The way I see it, you have four main categories

First, the shuffle shuffle, where the feet are dragged across the snow leaving marks that look like a giant snail trail


Then we have the teeter teeter - where you walk in tiny tiny mincing steps, whilst trying to look confident at the same time


Then there is the tiptoe totter - usually women, who insist on wearing the thigh high stiletto boots they had for Christmas. Am I in this category? Don't be silly............


Lastly we have the 'Snow? What Snow?' brigade, usually men, who walk with giant confident steps before doing that lurch thing - the one where you suddenly leap forwards, arms flailing like a windmill, and hang suspended in midair before crashing to the ground.

So anyone with sensible answers to a sensible question............. :)



I'll be back tomorrow with my card for 'wildcard Wednesday' See you all then

As we say in the UK, cheerio for now






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