Craft Heaven DT - Exploding Box Card

 

Good morning!  I have an exploding box card to show you today using the gorgeous Maja Design Summertime papers.  I have used a Magnolia butterfly Doohickey die for the butterflies on each side of the box.

I have decorated the top with leaves cut with the Rose Leaf Doohickey, seam binding and flowers from Craft Heaven and a cute moped charm.

Inside Tilda is zipping through the streets of London on her moped!  I have painted Tilda with Distress Inks.  I have used the Magnolia Phone Box Doohickey die to create the iconic red telephone box.

I have stamped the taxi stamp from the Let's Go Collection onto one of the Summertime papers and behind the taxi the buildings were created with the Edwin's Town Magnolia stamp.  The signpost is a Scrapiniec piece and the bicycle was cut out of one of the Summertime papers.

I have used a Magnolia pennant flags Doohickey die to cut out the tiny flags and the clouds were cut with one of the dies from the Bella Notte Doohickey dies.

I hope you like it and thanks for looking!

♥

Simon Says Stamp DT - Let it snow!!

Time for another challenge at Simon Says Stamp and this week our theme is Let it Snow!! Very appropriate for those of us in the UK as we're forcast snow for the end of the week - do hope so, I love it!! I went a little crazy for this challenge and have created an exploding box to give my children to have fun with in the run up to Christmas. When I was little we had a double LP (yes, one of those things before CD's LOL) with Christmas songs on and the album sleeve opened up to reveal the most amazing pop up scene you ever saw with a gingerbread Santa sweet shop, trees, the sleigh and reindeer - OMG I loved looking at it and this gave me the idea to make a somewhat small version for my children! So, when they lift the lid of their box here is what they'll find...........

A snow scene complete with "falling" snowflakes!! (OK they're suspended on acetate strips but I'm sure they won't mind!!

I used the gorgeous Tilda and Edwin skating stamp and coloured it with copics. I've added lots of stickles to Tilda's coat trims. They can skate around a full circle if you turn the little wheel you see at the front.

I have used the Magnolia forest stamp several times to create a snowy forest around the ice rink along with part of the open gate stamp by Magnolia. I have added lots of Martha Stewart glitter to the trees on tops of the fence. The "snow" is some white felt sprinkled with glitter and I've used some tiny pom poms for piles of snowballs.

You can turn Tilda and Edwin around on their ice rink using the little wheel therefore I had to fashion some sort of back for them. Don't look too close LOL my drawing isn't quite up to Pauline's standards LOL, plus the pen I used was a little too thick for drawing.

On the front panel I have used some Spellbinder Create a Flake 1 dies for the snowflakes and the Magnolia doo hickey tag and a sentiment from Magnolia stamped with distress ink and sprinkled with glitter before it dried.

I love this side of the box as it has some of the words to "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" on it - love that song it is soooo Christamssy! The papers are by Magnolia from last year's Christmas collection and I've used Tim Holtz snowflake on the edge die around the edges of the lid along with some lace from my stash.

I added some paper from MME's Christmas glitter stack to the lid along with a chiffon bow and some plastic snowflakes from my stash. Hope you like it and I've inspired you to join us this week at Simon Says Stamp Challenge. Have a look at the rest of the teams stunning creations here! Thanks for looking! x

Exploding Box card

Today is my little boy's 5th birthday! Wow, I just cannot believe he is 5 already, it has just flown! He really wanted an exploding box card because I made one for my daughter's 1st birthday in March! I was going to do one for him anyway, but of course he didn't know that and has plagued my life out for one bless him LOL! It made him jump when he opened it!

I saw this fab paper at the Hobby House months ago and knew I had to try and make a card with a castle theme to go with the Whiff of Joy Charlie stamp, and how perfect was this paper!? I love how it has turned out, it exceeded my expectations of how it was going to look.

Each side is decorated differently:

On the front, of course, are the castle doors;

I have 3d'd Charlie on one side;

A big 5 covered in vines;

and his name and a sword and shield on the other.

I have added a loop on top to make opening the box easier ready for the explosion!.........

When you take off the lid the sides fold down to reveal a free standing Charlie and two banners on acetate strips so they look like they're floating above him! (this is what made Connor jump LOL)

A close up of Charlie, I just love this image so much, it reminds me of Connor when he dresses in his knight's costume. Again each part of the inside is decorated differently. I stamped the stone paper with a Stempelglede grunge stamp around the edges and distressed with brushed cordoruy distress ink.

A little birthday poem on some paper I've aged and made into an opened scroll complete with wax seal. Excuse the poem! I searched for ages for a suitable child son poem to no avail and ended up making one up (cringes). The wax seal is from a kit I got when I made my own wedding invitations and sealed them all!

Another Charlie.....

A "tapestry" with his name on! I saved this scrap of material months ago, it is a label from some jeans and has the jean's logo on the other side, it already had an eyelet and I stamped a grunge stamp in red and green to try to look like a tapestry. Connor has been written with my calligraphy pen.

Finally, a panel with 5 today again written with my pen. Sorry there are so many pictures but I wanted to show you all the different bits! Thanks for looking! x

Images: Knight Charlie and banner from Whiff of Joy coloured with copics

Paper: Brick wall by Hot off the Press, Eire Celtic Text by Bo Bunny

Buttons: Basic Grey

Ribbon and brads: from stash

Other tools: Tim Holtz distress ink in brushed cordoruy and peeled paint, Stempelglede grunge corner stamp, Woodware leaf stamp

Finished exploding box

After successfully linking my post to the sugar bowl blog (on the second attempt LOL) I realised I didn't put the pictures of the finished exploding box for my daughter's first birthday on here. So here they are x

This is the outside of the box

The first layer of the inside...

This is the second layer of the box. Should have zoomed in more, sorry!

There is another layer and as I said, the shoe and the lid. I'll post more when finished!