Away with the Autumn fairies...

Morning folks

Well the winds are blowing and its pouring with rain outside , monsoon season has returned and with it the usual sniffles and  snotty noses!! The whole house has been sneezing and spluttering germs like its going out of fashion, myself included!!

So it seemed only appropriate to make a tissue box for today's project. They don't require a great deal of brain power of which I am lacking of this morning as they are simply  a box with a lid with a slit in it!! How you decorate them is your choice I've gone with fairies this time round as I have a get well card already done in that style

The card was made using a Crafters Companion stamp from the Fairyopolis range. 'She' has been coloured in with a selection of Pro markers and Spectrum Noirs and cut out with a Spellbinders die. I made a brown glitter frame and added some paper flowers to the corner and a bow and sentiment above.  The most enjoyable part of this card was making the backing paper/card that 'she' sits upon so I thought I might share that technique with you today, It's reasonably easy,  if you follow the steps you should be able to recreate a similar pattern and style.

For the backing paper you will need

White card
A plastic floral mask
distressing inks
silver embossing powder
versamark ink pad
blending tool
Embossing machine i.e. Cuttlebug, Grand Calibur

Step one
First take some white card and a floral or leafy plastic mask. Ink up the mask using a versa mark sticky ink pad and lay the card over it then run this through your embossing/die-cutting machine. I used my Grand Calibur for this as the mask I used was quite large.

Step 2
Carefully remove mask from card and cover embossed (and now sticky) indents with silver embossing powder. I used one from Papermania called silver tinsel which has a very high shiny finish for an embossing powder

Step 3
Gently tap off the excess powder and then heat with a heat gun from underneath till all the powder has melted then leave to cool

Step 4
Ink all over your card with different distressing inks I used Tim Holts 'Fired Brick' red, Pine Needles and 'Peeled Paint' greens . The now embossed silver leaves will act as a resist and so you can ink over the top of them. Cut your finished patterned paper to the required size using your paper trimmer or guillotine and matt your fairy image onto it

As for the box , I just coloured some more of the fairies from the Fairyopolis collection and stuck them to the four sides . To decorate  the lid (after cutting a slot in the top)  I added some corners then added some large peach paper flowers made from a marianne 'posy' die and put glitter glue around the edges I finished with a butterfly in the corner and wrapped some ribbon and lace around the outside of the lid to add interest.

Now that's finished I can go off and take 2 paracetamol, have for a hot lemsip , and a cosy sit down by the fire for 10 minutes ...

I would like to enter this project in the following Challenges
ladyannechallenge

Craft us crazy 28# Fall challenge

Crafty Pad 192# Distress it challenge

Bows and ribbons Challenge

Cute card Thursday Challenge 239#

Sarahhurley Challenge 73# Autumn