Box of cards

   I am lucky enough to have been asked to be a guest designer for this fortnight's challenge over at Crafting with Dragonflies. The challenge is - create a box with at least three cards.
   I wanted to make a box to take three A6 cards and matching envelopes. I have not made a box before, so I used Crafter's Companion boxer board (without their ultimate pro) and following the instructions  I used a piece of 16 cm by 21 cm eggshell blue centura pearl card for the base and a piece of 14 cm by 19 cm card for the lid to create a box 2 cm in depth and a lid 1 cm deep.  I was surprised how easily it all fitted together.
 

   To decorate the lid I used a stamp from Chocolate Baroque. I coloured the butterfly using Promarkers and then distress inked the edges. Once the image was fixed to the lid I bordered it with peel offs.

   To make the first card, I covered a base card with eggshell blue pearlescent paper. Onto this I layered pink floral paper. The lower half was covered with purple paper and the join covered with a strip of pink and white spotty paper. I mattered a rectangle of eggshell blue pearlescent paper onto dark mauve pearlescent paper and fixed ti centrally onto the card. The decoupaged butterfly from one of Le Suh's A5 booklets was glued to this and then card candi were fixed in each corner.

   The other two cards were made in a similar way.











   I would like to enter this project into the following challenges:
   Whoopsi Daisy - anything but a card
   Creative Craft2 - anything goes
   Flutter By Wednesday - open
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - favourite technique (decoupage)
   Papertake Weekly - anything goes
   Ooh L:a La - F is for FLOWERS and FLIGHT
   Eureka - Wings and things