~Make My Day Birthday Bash 1~Pink and Gold Altered Box~

I had a giveaway on my other blog and needed a box for that item so I bought a set of 3 different sized boxes in this lovely brown... ok its not quite lovely but its great for me to alter in to something more attractive.

This is the smallest of the boxes and here is what I came up with....

Since its the start of the Chinese New Year I decided to think of something along the lines of it as last year I created a bookmark for the event. The pink paper has dragons on it (for the year of the dragon), I then added punched flowers, gems and this medallion peel off in layers. Its simple but I love it.

Inside the box I've added lots of used stamps for you to craft with or to decorate your letters... I'm sure you'll think of something.

If you would like this box

Why not shout

Make My Day

in the comment section!

This is on its way to
Pocci



Make My Day...Long Time No See...

I've added a chatter box widget on the right hand side of my side bar for suggestions, to say how much you loved the item you received or general chatter...

took this opportunity to suggest a long time no see theme which had my brain whizzing around with ideas...

someone looking out of a window...

curtains...

vases...

funky wallpaper

a landscape scene...

First I needed the landscape scene, that turned out to be so disappointing as every magazine I picked up didn't have what I was looking for... if anything the images were rubbish and for the price of some magazines it really wasn't worth it... its a shame I couldn't go into the city where WHsmiths has a bigger variety of magazines... never mind though I choose the cheapest one that I could see myself using some images from. I couldn't print anything off the internet as my printer isn't a photo one so the quality is quite poor.

Then I made my way to the craft store and came across these lovely pre-cut greeting cards but they only had an arch way and this circular window but not the rectangle one that both had an image of... I love the idea of a circular window as its something different and un-usual and this is what I came up with....

I wanted to create the idea of looking out of a window, waiting for someone special, important etc... to come but in the end because these circles are so small I kept the background simple as not to take your eye away from the center.

So you get the window, landscape and funky wallpaper...

and finished with a peel off border.

I will recreate these maybe one day again but with a rectangular window and landscapes that are a little bit more what I'm looking for... I like all of these in there own way and it feels like someone is waiting for/looking for someone in different locations.

All of these pictures are of places in Yorkshire...

If you would like these Greeting Cards all you need to do is shout

Make My Day

in the comment Section

Good Luck!

If you have any suggestions why not share them too... and see what I come up with.

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Becca

Make My Day...Travel the World with me Postcard....

I know I didn't post anything during the week but over the weekend I had really bad stomach cramps, I haven't had them for some time as I'm trying to change my eating habits so it was a little unbearable... then the first day back after the holidays we get a phone call at work from Ofstead so my week just went into going to work early and coming back later....

One thing I did do was read a book called The Pirates Daugter, I didn't sleep too great one of the nights this week so my mind ended up crafting so whilst I was laying there my mind just came up with this....

This looks a lot nicer for real.

My mind actually thought about a A-Z style maps but I'm not cutting up my A-Z as I still use it! So I knew that I already had this map that came in a collection of papers a friend sent me a long time ago.

I used distress ink around the edges to give it a sandy look since you end up somewhere near a sandy beach when you come off a boat.

By the way I did imagine using these images (well not these exact ones but from the booklet I own with them in). My thoughts were actually of hand stitching around the edges but I didn't feel up to it so used a ruler and pen to create the lines which smugded creating a little more of an oldish/worn out look.

I then imagined that I'd have a compass right in the middle on the side... only I added the compass but at the bottom instead... because

I wanted to add these tickets which I made using sand paper to get a little old rough edge feel to it. I had imagined folding the map as I have done which I used to do a lot in my days of making neat FBs but for some reason never used again. I realised it would make great pockets which is why I've added the tickets as I have. Originally the world ticket would have just been there on its own but it looked like something was missing so I used my brand new inks to stamp this floral border. I never imagined the yellow would be so strong as usually they are so light and annoying... which has left me over the moon as I'll be able to use it a lot more often.

So this is what I spent about an hour of my morning doing and now I hope you now like this enough to shout 'make my day'.

I choose to make the day
of somebody in Germany