2018 #8 Boxes: 'collect beautiful moments' with EKD {by Corrie Herriman}

2018 Topic 8: Boxes

A brightly decorated box from Corrie in this post! If you are a copic fan she shows beautiful colouring skills, and I love how they show off Kim Dellows stamps perfectly! ~Leandra 

Hi everyone, it's Corrie from MadeByCHook here with you today, and I'd like to show you what I have made for the 'boxes' topic. I had a heart shaped box in my stash for ages and this seemed to be the perfect moment to use it. I chose to paint and stencil the box and to keep it relatively simple because I wanted to make the flowers stand out. 

I enjoyed this little project because I used all my favourite materials ie. PaperArtsy paints and a stencil, lovely rubber stamps and my Copic Markers. I coloured a lot more stamped images than I used and learned that sometimes less is more ! 

I started off with taking off the hinges and painting the box with two layers of gesso. You don't really need gesso with the Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics but I like to start this way. 

Next I painted the box with Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics in the colours {Antarctic}, {Mermaid} and {Bora Bora}. I used these colours because they are amongst my favourite colours from the range. Also, I knew I wanted to used yellows, oranges and reds for my flowers and the cool turquoise and warm oranges go so well together. 

Next I used a stencil by Kim Dellow {PS034} with Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic in {Snowflake}. Stencilling adds lots of interest to your project. It doesn't matter if it is a box or an art journal page or a card. 

For the embellishment on the top I stamped out lots of flowers from Kim's fantastic stamp sets {EKD05} and {EKD06}. I decided on colouring them with my Copic Markers because they are my favourite way of colouring !

This is the result of a few hours of colouring and cutting out the images. I like to add some white accents because that gives your colouring work that little extra sparkle !  

Here's the finished article. I kept the lower part of the box lighter than the lid to add some more interest. I stencilled this bit with {Bora Bora}. After colouring the flowers and the butterfly I shaped them a little by bending the paper here and there. By doing that and using dimensional adhesive the flowers make a bigger impact then when you would adhere them flat onto the box.

I like how it turned out; I really love these colours together. I did add a sentiment, a small talk sticker by Tim Holtz. I chose this one because I can imagine this box being used for keeping photos and little mementos in.

I hope you enjoyed my post and that you will have a go at decorating a box yourself. If you don't like colouring images like I do, you could use pretty pattern papers to stamp the images on or you could use gel printed papers in colours that go well together. I am sure that would look fabulous too; in fact I might just have to try this myself ! These clusters of images work well on cards and art journals too. 

I'd like to say thank you for visiting today and I hope I have given you some inspiration ! You can visit me here too: 

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