Craft Warehouse DT Assignment 5 (continued)

For the third part of our assignment we were asked to alter either a journal or a box with note paper.  I ended up altering the box.  for this assignment I used the stencil required and the wood vaneer embellishments. 

I placed the stencil on the front of the box and applied black ink over the portion I was using with a sponge.  I then used the sponge to distress all the edges with the black ink as well.  Then I simply layered some paper and a sentiment.  I fussy cut the scallop & view finder from the pattern paper.  I added a couple stickers from the collection and a few wood vaneer stars that I covered with black ink.

Next I covered the sides and back with the red and white polka dot paper to add a little color.

I finished the inside of the box lid with more red and white paper and the fun paper that the alphabet listed several times including sign language.  I thought this was a nice fit for a box that holds note paper.  The arrows are different color stickers from the set that I covered with black ink.

My final step was embellishing the top sheet of paper.  I added a small strip of patterned paper, and a house shaped wood vaneer piece, again covered with black ink. 

That's it for now.  Thanks for looking ~ Michelle ~

Craft Warehouse DT Assignment 5

Our 5th design team assigment for Craft Warehouse was using Echo Parks Note To Self line.  Now, this is not a line that I would likely buy, but I loved playing with this paper. 

The first layout we were required to use the view finder paper in some way, a vinyl rub on and the wood vaneer shapes.  I originally thought to make a flower out of the view finders but ended up in a different direction and just layered them with other papers.  I chose the blue card stock for the base because it added some color and made everything else stand out.  The key is the vinyl rub on that I placed on a sticker and attached with a pop up adhesive.  I also used pop up adhesive on part of the journaling, I actually messed up on one of the words and tada a happy accident.  

I had some pictures from a trip to the coast that I would work nicely with this line.  So for the second layout I really wanted to create the look of waves and the beach with the paper.  One of the patterns was a corkboard so I used that for the sand and layered the blue waves above it.  I traced a small plate on a scratch piece of paper to get the pattern for the wave.  I created a fringed sun using one of the view finder pieces and spraying with glimmer mist.  The flowers are stickers but I adhered with pop up adhesive.  For the title area I tried to include a variety of pieces so I took the sticker that said "together time" and cut it in half so I could rearange the words.  And I wanted to incorporate the piece that listed the month and date on it so I placed it right below the title. 

The center photo is a pocket with a sentiment tucked in it. 

Be sure to check back soon for the third part of this assignment.

Thanks for looking ~ Michelle ~