What's in the Box?

This week on the Daring Cardmakers Fran has given us a "proper" old challenge!  It's had a good few of us scratching our heads in "I haven't a clue what to do with this one" fashion.  If you head over and visit our BLOG though, I think you'll agree that our fab team rose admirably to the challenge and made some wonderfully creative projects which we hope will inspire you to put your thinking caps on too!

It goes like this:

A Box of Tricks
I (Fran) would like you to feature a box, or something box-shaped on your projects - it could be a 3D project, decorated box, box shaped embellishments...once you start thinking outside the box (!) you can come up with some fun ideas!

Now I'm sure there are loads of rubber stamps with boxes  of one kind or another, but obviously that's no good to me, so I spent most of the week thinking about types of boxes and how I could make at least one of them work on a card.  I think it was when a lovely package of new Memory Box dies arrived that the thought "Window Box" jumped into my head.

Just to make it harder for myself I thought it might be possible to make the window box part a 3D pop-out.  After faffing about a bit with card and a bone folder (and giving myself a horrible paper cut which brought tears to my eyes and sent me scuttling off to find the tape and wadding to staunch the blood) I came up with this one:

It's quite bulky but I've folded the "box" in such a way that it does actually fold (relatively) flat for posting.

Materials:

All papers MME from "Dolled Up" 6x6 pad (Miss Caroline collection)

Doily motif and tag are also cut from one of the papers

White lace

Turquoise, Pink and White pearls. pearl heart, decal sentiment

Tools:

EK Success border punch

Memory Box dies (Cherry Blossom, Petal Party
Tonic floral punch set  

You can see the box shape better on an angled view

And a close up of the flowers - I mixed up the various die cuts and punches

Yet again I've got behind with my blogging and need to spend some time catching up.

This week I've been busy with Crafty Templates and Funky Hand projects - all which I need to blog in the next few days.

This weekend sees the launch of a new Funky Hand collection and we're having a blog hop to celebrate - and to show off the papers that you get when you download the brand new collection.  They are sooooo pretty, so please pop by Anice's blog to see what's happening over the weekend and join in....I do believe there's going to be a prize on offer....

Right, time for lunch - Hubby's home-working today and once he's decided it's lunch time, then it's lunch time...

Thanks for visiting