I'm honoured to be a guest DT again at Creative Artiste Mixed media Challenge for this month. The theme is always anything goes with mixed media and today I'm sharing another A5 book box that I have decorated for a birthday gift, one of my favourite things that I enjoy doing.
I used one of Gecko Galz beautiful images from their blog for the front of my box and gave the box a coat of white gesso before using one of Stamperia's stencils with texture paste to create the design for my box.
I also added texture paste down the edge of the box and created the faux book pages. When dry, the edge of the box was painted in a buff acrylic paint.
I chose to paint the outside of the box with this blue pearl paint from Pebeo which is a more turquoise shade, I thought would compliment the image on my box really well. When dry, I added a touch of gold wax over the stencilled areas of the box.
I then added a few metal embellishments with a little gel medium and didn't think it needed any more on this particular project. The inside of the box has also been painted with gold metallic paint.
Gecko Galz also have loads of inspiration on their blog along with challenges to enter and free images to download to craft with. Pop over to their page follow and subscribe to their monthly newsletter.
I enjoy decorating these types of boxes, they come in very handy and make nice gifts too.
Don't forget to drop by Creative Artiste's blog challenge there are some amazing projects and fabulous inspiration on their blog and links to their DT for you to follow.
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Have a great day, whatever you have planned for yourself and fab weekend to come too!
Happy Crafting
