Matchbox dresser

Last weeks "Weekly Inkling" at Splitcoaststampers is the "Matchbox dresser" and I loved the idea. With a birthday coming up and jewellery as the gift I figured it would be a really nice way to present the gift then a the normal gift box or bag.

If you are interested the link to see the original tutorial is here:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/matchboxdresser/

You are meant to use match box's but if you do not have the match box's then there is a tutorial in the one above giving you the measurements and instructions to make your own box's. I did not have the match box's so I used the tutorial to make my own box's.

Square box four sides with 6 draws on each side totaling 24 draws. I also could not find the metal Tim Holtz  handles and used wooden pushpins instead. I  bought a necklace and matching ear rings as the gift and had the velvet bags hanging out of the draws with a note saying "Open me"

 The other side also with a bag hanging out the one draw saying "Open me"

View from the top.

Please leave comments and let me know if you like or not

Thank you for looking

Valerie

Album gift

I decided to make my friends daughter an album using the photo's taken at her 21st  tea party and have been busy with this for about 2 weeks now. Each page of the album is a different shape - keeping with the tea party theme. But I have never done one of these before and I found it rather ...... I want to say "difficult" but it was not difficult - may be different!! Cannot find the words to describe this project really but I still enjoyed ever moment.

I had left over items from the invitations and thank you gifts which I have tried to bring into the album but I really wanted to stick to more photos than decorations. Not sure what she is going to think but I quite like the end result:

Let me know what you think!!

 There is a teabag holder in the teapot on the above picture which was used in the Thank you tea bag holders

 The stained glass window in the picture above is done with acetate, spectrum noir markers and alcohol blending liquid. Also the yellow roses are left over roses from the invitations.

 The thank you stamp on the cupcake page is also from the Thank you tea bag holders

Thank you for looking and please come back later this week, I am busy with another project - also a gift - matchbox dresser - only I have made my own boxes instead of using the match box's.

See you then

Justin Bieber Fever

Being a 40 year old, I do not understand the madness that surrounds the name "Justin Bieber" but I can appreciate that people are all made individuals with his or her own likes and dislikes.

A friend's daughter is turning 7 on Saturday and she has recently become a Justin Bieber fan!! To confuse me even further, this little girl is actually a tomboy and does not like anything girly or pretty!! This boggles my mind but with saying that I figured that her gift and card would have to be Justin Bieber themed. I never spend alot of money on my friends children only because I like to keep it all fair and prefer giving a handmade gift then a store bought one. I really struggled with this one but decided to cut out a silhouette of his face and his name and place this on an old bottle. I wanted to fill the bottle with sweets but could not find enough purple individually wrapped sweets to fill it without it costing me a fortune so I decided to wrap the inside of the bottle with purple cardstock and then filled it with sweets. The lid I covered with black cotton material and tied it down with a purple ribbon:

The card I decided to go plan and simple:

Update on 21st Tea Party Thank you treats

 Last month I posted the 21st Invitations with thank you treat holders and cupcake stand that I made for my friends 21st. This post links up with those posts! I have made envelopes to put the tea bags in and then into the thank you treat holders. Cut out of cupcake printed vellum bought from Spotlight and then I tried to make it look like a teabag as well to keep to the theme. Very happy with how it came out:

Just in case you not sure of what I am talking about I have added a picture of the Thank you treat holders:

This is what it looks like from the inside:

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