Beautiful Memories - Gift Box

Hello guys
Today I have a Big beautiful gift box to share with you all today. This box is custom made for a client who wanted to fit in some beautiful gifts for her beau. This box is huge and measures 15" by 13" by 8" and weights 2kgs as the lid is pretty heavily embellished.

The box is made from scratch using 1500gsm chipboard and handmade paper from ItsyBitsy craft store. I built my entire box using white handmade paper and chipboard and then decorated with the floral linen paper and colorful cardstock (Lilac and Turquoise). To further enhance the look, I gave it all a quarter inch border of gold glitter paper.

To add texture to the box, I did some senticlling using modelling paste and script stencil on all the sides, base as well as the top. I embellished the lid using a lot of handmade flowers, doilies, diecuts, sequins and glitter, cardstock banners, pearls, mdf birdcage and more.

I love embellishing such boxes because it gives me an opportunity to recycle and use a lot of stuff that I hoard. The pearls used are a part of home decor " TORAN " (Hindi: तोरण) (origin: Sanskrit. torana, from tor, pass), which is a decorative door hanging in Hinduism, usually decorated with marigolds and mango leaves, or a string that is tied on the door with the flower on it as a part of traditional Hindu culture which is for decoration and beautification.  They can be made of fabrics, pearls, beads or metals or any other embellishments.

 The MDF bird cage I used here is actually part of a tag which adorned a fancy birdcage lamp I purchased.....it was too good to throw away. A few flowers used here were actually reused from few of the gift boxes I got this year for DIWALI. I hoard a lot of beautiful elements that I get and reuse them.There is some thing amazing when you see the random pieces you use coming together and becoming like they always belonged together....MAGIC!!!!!!

Here is a video clip to see the box upclose..I hope you guys enjoy watching it.
I am putting this box up the following challenges:-

1. UnstampaBelles November Challenge #85 launched: Boxes, parcels or bag.
2. Rhedd's Creative Spirit November Challenge
3. HLS November Mixed Media Challenge - Birds

Happy Valentine's Day - Handmade Gift Box

Hello guys

I am back with a new gift box today and it is Valentine's Day themed. I made this for my husband and I really hope he likes it. I am planning to fill it with some things he likes.......shhhhhhh...its a a secret.

This box is actually 9 1/4"x 5 1/4" on the outside and 8 1/4"x 4 1/4" on the inside and the thickness is 2". I have gone crazy with bling this time. The pattern paper used is from Eno Greetings from the blossom series and the papers are all gold foiled. So to match them I have used glitter paper and few glitter paper diecuts and a bottle of glittery sparkle dots......bling bling bling.

I am putting up my project at Let's Craft and Create challenge #122 , Petal Lu challenge #31, Simonsaysstamp- Young at heart, Try it on tuesday challenge- Hearts and Flowers (I have used both flowers and a gold heart in my project)and  Scrapping4fun challenge 83

So here is the list of supplies used for the box:

1 Chipboard (Kraftily Konnect)

2 Black heavyweight paper (Itsybitsy)

3 Gold glitter paper (Itsybitsy)

4 White satin ribbon (Itsybitsy)

5 Silicon glue (Itsybitsy)

6 Pearls (Itsybitsy)

Gold beads(local store)

8 Pattern paper - Eno greetings Paper series Blossom.

9 Glass bottle (Itsybitsy)

10 Sparkle dots (Itsybitsy) 

11 Foam adhesive

12 Flourish diecuts- MFT 

13 Red Cardstock (Kraftily Konnect)

14 Gold Embossed paper (local Store)

15 Rose buds and poppies (Crafters corner)

16 Open handmade flower (Itsybitsy)

17 Red Rose and satin rose (Local Store)

18 Butterfly, Gold heart and Valentine notecard from the paper pack

19 Sentiment tiles (Crafters corner)

20 Metal charm (Local store)

At the very end I have added the link for the video walkthrough of this project. If you want a tutorial for this box, please let me know and I will come up with one.

 I hope you all will liked my project...until next time..keep smiling.