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Saturday 24 August 2013

Box tutorial with Princess and frog new image from Crafty Sentiments

Good morning! This is a scheduled post as I'm bound to be running around trying to finish packing bags for our holiday as this goes live. I have a box to show you today that I gave Lucy for her birthday - here it is - then I'll show you how I made it.


Okay so here's how it started out:

I bought this MDF box at the Doncaster show - it was only about £4 - which I though was a bargain given its size and weight. The first thing I did was to add a layer of acrylic paint - I used Pebeo acrylic paint but I suspect any would do.
Once dry I mixed some sparkle gel from Imagination Crafts with some white acrylic paint - roughly 50/50 mix then applied it with  spatula through a mask (poinsettia) from Imagination crafts.
I then removed the mask, cleaned it up and allowed the paste to dry (about an hour).
Once dry I gradually repeated the process to cover the whole lid. Many of the joins weren't brilliant but with some clever use of embellishments you can hide the worst bits. Then I coloured the stamped image and cut using a spellbinders die and stuck this and some flowers on top of the lid. Here's a close up of the image.

Hope you've enjoyed my tutorial and that you like the new stamp!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

21 comments:

  1. It really is a lovely box Rachel, Lucy is a lucky little girl. Enjoy your hols

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  2. Beautiful box Rachel. The stamp is lovely and your chosen colours look great. Enjoy your Week-end. Hugs Rita xxx

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  3. This is gorgeous Rachel, I love the colour and cute image. I am sure Lucy will treasure this, your girls are so lucky to have such a talented mum!
    hugs Sue xx

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  4. omg fabulous love the little tutorial and great make
    Hugs Kate xx

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  5. Fabulous Rachel, what a lovely box for Lucy. Im sure she will treasure it.
    thanks for showing how you made it, hugs Kate X

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  6. so so beautiful Rachel, love it ! and your embellies are perfect for this box
    hugs
    céline

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  7. Oh this is just what little girls love. A box to hold all those treasures, it lovely.
    Enjoy your holiday.

    Hazel

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  8. Such a lovely box, I'm sure Lucy love's it. Thanks for showing what you done, I have a pack of cogs bought earlier this year, just waiting to be played with.

    Sue x

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  9. Sweet image Rachel and a really gorgeous altered box too, love it! Chris x

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  10. Love it. In fact I'm jealous and would love one of these for me. Thank you for sharing how you did it too Rachel - methinks some glitter and acrylic paint are going to be mixed together to see how that looks. Karen x

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  11. Hi Rachel, what a gorgeous colour on your lovely box and the poinsettia stencil looks beautiful on the top. Love the sweet image too. Thanks for sharing your how-to as well. Hugs, Anne x

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  12. This is fab Rachel! The box looks lovely and I love how you used the stencil, I must admit to being hopeless with these! Hope you got to Cornwall alright and the weather is good, its beautiful here! Susan x

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  13. fabulous box Rachel, I love how you created the design and just perfect for that adorable new image. xx

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  14. This is fabulous, I got one too. I hope you have a lovely holiday.

    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  15. Really gorgeous hun, love the bold red and the pattern is so pretty, gorgeous image and love the shape of the box (as you probably already guessed lol). I bet Lucy loved it, hope you have a lovely holiday hun
    Lindsay xx

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  16. Very pretty, love how striking the white flowers are! Cute image is perfect!

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  17. Such A Lovely Box And Check Glitter And Sparkle You Won And Me Too

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  18. This is fabulous Rachel, really gives me much needed inspiration to do something other than cards!

    Anne x

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  19. A really lovely box Rachel. Love the way you have done the flowers on the top using the mask and sparkle gel.
    Mags
    x

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  20. This is fabulous Rachel, I bet Lucy loved it.
    Pauline
    x

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