Forum Christmas exchange

 These items were all part of my Christmas present from an exchange organised by les ateliers du scrap forum. All these lovely things were created by severine and in exchange I sent her what I produce according to the list we were provided with. We had to supply :
A room perfume with it's box
A soap in a pretty box
A nail file in its own case
A flower containing bath pearls to hand on the tree
A handmade box of chocolate
A christmas card and a tag to put on the tree (the last two got put away with the xmas deco before I remembered to take a picture!

The colour theme was  (you guessed it !!) white with a hint of colour.

I hope you will agree with me but Severine surpassed herself. I loved all of it!

Box Card

I wanted to make a special box for my sons' friend birthday but as I was pushed for time I didn't have time to make a card too so I decided to make a box card! I  used the tutorial in a previous post and quite enjoyed it so I had another go. This one is larger than my previous attempt. I also made some jewellery to put in the card.

 

 


This embellishment is a metal frame which I stamped and heat embossed with white powder. I printed the words on my PC and cut them out in the shape of the inside of the frame. I inked the edges with rangers vintage photo distress ink and then I glued the cutout inside the frame and covered it in modpodge.

Fancy a cup of tea?

When my sister sent me a lovely teacup card for my birthday I was itching to make one myself. I loved it so much! Anyway a friends' birthday is coming up so I thought that was the perfect opportunity to have a go. So here is mine:

 

The chocolate from the Hotel Chocolat was just the right size to fit in the box and my friend told me today this was the best chocolate she'd ever eaten... All this advertising and I'm not even on commission!! ...

Box card

This card was part of the Christmas Advent Calendar challenge for l'Atelier à Scrap. I didn't even have time to post it on their site so I thought I'd show it to you instead! I really enjoyed that project. It's a little time consuming but well worth it don't you think? The background paper is a free paper again from a craft mag (can't remember which one) and so are the label and the mannequin

The doily is a Cheery Lynn die cut. The brown flower is a pink mulberry which I inked with distressd walnut from the Range. This was a bit weird as it didn't seem to ever dry completely despite the fact that I left it on the radiator for a couple of days!

If you fancy having a go yourself here is the link to the tutorial I followed:tutorial for box card