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Baby shower gift idea: altered mini drawer chest

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I was very happy to do one of my altered drawer boxes again, my second one actually, because they’re cute, look lovely and are easily made. I bought it in one of our craft stores (in the Netherlands); it’s made of plain wood and its size is 8x8x3 inches (20x20x7,5 cm).

This time I used Romantic Nursery design paper to alter it into a baby shower gift, so it’s completely different from my first one. It still amazes me how much a simple change in color and style can lead to a difference of day and night for the same object! A difference I find utterly enjoyable by the way, for this way one object can please many different people and can be made to fit a multitude of occasions – and moreover, it inspires creativity!

 

So here’s the video, including a little “how to” information, enjoy!

Have you ever altered a box or some other object? How did you do it?

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Altered drawer box – for a guy

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Although I may not have posted very much lately, I’ve been quite the busy paper crafter 🙂 . It’s just that I have to wait until the intended recipients of these projects have actually received their gifts, before I can show them (and the rest of the world) these blog posts to avoid ruining the surprise! So, the coming weeks I’ll be posting quite a few projects since August is kind of a festive month in our extended family, with several birthdays and a baby that’s eagerly expected 🙂

Now I’m very happy to show you the second of these “August gifts”! (the first being the Ancestry mini album I just posted)

First I painted this cute little wooden drawer box very dark brown, then I added Graphic 45’s A Proper Gentleman design paper to its drawer fronts – after distressing them with Tim Holtz’s Black Soot distress ink.

Before:

My mother commissioned this project for my uncle’s birthday, and getting to create this was great fun for me. After I was done and had printed her personal birthday wishes on a special tag – adding some extra tags just for fun – she really finessed it, turning it into the perfect birthday gift for her brother by filling each drawer with a nice golfing gift (like golf balls, tees etc)! What a great idea! 🙂

Anyway, hope you’re inspired by it as well. Check it out!

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After:

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Turn your old tea box into a piece of art

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Ever since I’ve become a happy scrapper (which happened winter 2012, when I started my very first experimental scrap project) my view of the world has changed: I’m looking at every object or piece of material as potential raw material with which to create something beautiful. Take my mother’s tea box. I never really noticed the thing, until last month when I turned on my Superscrapper x-ray vision (well, sort of) and saw that it could be in fact Beautiful, as soon as someone would unlock its hidden gorgeousness.

Because it was black, I decided it would be an Asian tea box, for it reminded me of these beautiful black lacquered little treasure boxes of, for instance, the Chinese. It so happened that in my stash I had a lovely Asian-themed design paper waiting to be used: Bo Bunny’s Serenity. So I got to work, and here’s the results!

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Prima Romance Novel Altered Treasure Chest, pt. 2 – Completed

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Here’s the little treasure chest again (see part 1), the one I altered with paper from Prima, the Romance Novel 6×6 inch (15×15 cm) design paper pad.

The mini tags were an extra challenge, in that I wanted to print text on them instead of writing them by hand. How do you print text on teeny-tiny labels and tags? I can’t say everything went perfect from the start, can’t say there were no misprints either, but: in the end I was able to come up with some pretty awesome mini prints on some pretty tiny mini tags! 🙂 And if you’d like to learn how to do this as well, check out my free tutorial!

Of course there’s a video below, but first a quick reminder of what I started with: “Before”

And here’s “After”:

I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out, and I really like how it matches my colonial wooden cabinet so perfectly… Plus, I’m especially pleased with how the quilled dandelion turned out – thanks to a tutorial by Inna from Inna’s Creations.

As I mentioned in part 1, I made this box on commission for someone who is going to send it to his lady friend who lives far far away, across many oceans and seas. Of course I sincerely hope that the intended recipient, “R”, really loves this little treasure chest her friend commissioned for her!

So, on to the video! The first one is in English, the second in Dutch.

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Safely arrived at its destination! 🙂