Mad for Markers – Anything but a Card

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Hi Blogging Buddies,
I have an off-the-page project to share tonight…I know, very un-like me…I dont know the last time I did an off-the-page project and posted it on my blog, but here it is and its a Christmas Box. Now I dont know what you could use it for…Ben asked me what I was going to do with it and I said…”probably give it away to someone”…maybe it could store precious Christmas decorations…I don’t know…do you have any suggestions?

The Mad for Markers monthly challenge is to make anything but a card and to use Copics and so that is what I did. I started with a Kaiser box and painted it with gold paint inside and out, several layers and then a coat of glitter paint to make it really sparkly. The sides of the box I covered with a very wide Christmas ribbon and then added two gold ribbons over the top. For the top I used some DCWV paper from the Mariposa Stack and added a border from a SU Christmas Scrapbooking kit. Then I added some Christmas Poinsettia flowers from The Craft Garden, gold leaves and more gold ribbon. Finally I added one of my new Christmas Tildas and coloured her with Copics.
Copics used:
Skin – E11, E21, E00, R20
Hair and clothes – C-1, C-3, Y28, E35, YR23, Y17, Y11, Sand Spica Pen
White gel pen and Kindy Glitz

I thought I might enter a few competitions…
Crafts and Me – Make a Christmas Gift
Totally Paper Crafts – Bling it On
Allsorts – Gold and Cream with a hint of Red
Miami Doodles – Anything but a card
A Pocket Full of Posies – Winter Bouquet
Creative Stamp Friends – My favourite stamps (magnolias)
OSAAT – Christmas
Wild Orchid Challenge – Classic Christmas

This week is pretty busy really…just worked two days on a 3/4 class and tomorrow I have an appointment day…so no going to work yay! Also its my Nan’s b’day tomorrow so we are going to get takeaway and go to her house for dinner. Then I go to Grade 5 Thurs and then Kinder Friday. I hope you are having a great week! Thanks for popping over to my blog.
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20 thoughts on “Mad for Markers – Anything but a Card”

  2. Leanne

    WOW this is gorgeous!

    This would be a fabulous entry into the Top Tip Tuesday Christmas Inspiration challenge this week – we have 3 amazing prizes up for grabs!! And you can join in as many times as you like!!

    Hope to see you there!

    Leanne xx

  5. nessy

    oh yes like you i love my magnolias ~ been an obsession for a few years now!!! wow!! love all the gold and your colouring is perfect ~so very rich for christmas! beautiful box!
    thanks for joining us on CREATIVE STAMP FRIENDS!
    vanessa xx

  10. Carol Ann

    Absolutely beautiful box Alicia I think you should keep the box and keep special Christmas memories in it including photos, special cards and things that will trigger a memory in years to come. Thanks for playing along at OSAAT.
    Carol Ann xx

  13. Nadine

    Hallo

    Wow, schaut super aus.
    Gefällt mir richtig gut, da stimmt einfach alles.
    Vielen Dank für Deine Teilnahme bei den Kreativen Stempelfreunden.

    Liebe Grüße Nadine

  14. Lorraine A

    Gorgeous box, so pretty 🙂 I love this Tilda and the colours and flowers are beautiful ,, I would keep it and store my christmassy flowers in it 🙂

    thanks for joining us on the Totally Papercrafts Challenge 🙂
    luv
    Lols x x x

  18. scotspanda

    oh wow this is stunning, the image is fab and the whole box looks great, I would be bringing it out every year as a decoration, oooh somewhere to keep the inevitable choccies that are around at the festive time of year!!

    thanks for joining in with the fun at Allsorts this week

    Amanda xx

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