A box for my coloured images

Morning folks.  Just thought I would share something I made for me lol, not something I do very often.  Recently I seem to have coloured in quite a few images and not used them.  The other day I wanted one of them for a card and blow me, could I find them.  They were not where I thought I had left them.  After an hour or two of hunting I did find them with great relief.  Anyway, after the experience I scrapped the idea of making a card and decided to make something to store my coloured images in.  I do have another plan to make an art journal and have been hunting for ways to make the actual journal to put the art work into to, book binding etc.  One of the way I saw was to make a concertina base and then the pages can be attached to each of the slots.  So . . . . . as a practice run I have used this idea to make the insert of a wooden box I have and this will be used to store my loose coloured images.

So much fun and a almost full day project :) :) :)

I started off making the concertina base to fit inside my box

I then added A5 sheets of very stiff card to each groove and then added another layer of card to base so it would glue firmly inside my box.

Talk about working back to front as it was at this point I decided to decorate the box and make it pretty instead of just functional hahahaha.

The box was painted with Gesso and then airbrushed with yellow, green and orange Promarkers to match the image I was going to used and had coloured previously. Next I raked out a sunflower rubber stamp and a couple of quote stamps and embossed with old gold embossing powder.  The same was done for the front piece of card.

To finish off I added ribbon (you can't see it but is is under the lace), lace and pearls.  I do love hidden elements, the sort that don't jump out at you but every now and again, you know they are there but they are confident enough not to have to be in your face so to speak.

A small section of lace was added under the image and a string of pearls too.  I die cut the text 'Coloured Images' which I heat embossed with Old Gold embossing powder. I then sandpapered this to distress it and then added a bit more heat embossing powder, this time Gold Tinsel.  Finally two metal hears were added, one by the image and the other on the front of the box.

I had such a hard time not adding some hand made paper flowers as I so love them but this box needed to be strong and put up with lots of use so I felt adding embellishments that were not flat would end up making it look tatty in no time at all.  Wonder how long it will be before I change my mind and relent hahahaha.

Supplies

• Image used - Keep The Faith by Ching Chou Kuik available from Sweet Pea Stamps as a rubber stamp.
• Colour Medium - Faber Castell Polychromos for the image and Promarkers for the background and box
• From my stash - old wooden box, rubber sunflower stamp and sentiment stamps, lace, pearls, ribbon, embossing powders and metal hearts.

I am entering this box in the following challenges:-

• Artbymiran Challenge - 2W , SIO, 3E, no digital projects - No.31 - (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes
• Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 145 - Layers
• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - 2W, 3E -  No. 90 - (W2 of 2) - Spring Has Sprung
• Fairy Tale - 2W, 2E - No. 117 - (W1 of 2) - Corrugated Cardboard (THINK MY CONCERTINA BASE IS THE SAME AS CORRUGATED CARDBOARD)
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.137 - (W2 of 2) - Lots of Flowers
• Left of Center Creative Challenges - W - No.77 - Bling
• Quick Quotes - M (first Friday of the month), E1, SIO - No.51 - May - Add a Flower or a Butterfly
• Crafting with an Attitude - M, 1stThurs, E3 - Anything Goes/Spring Fever
• Scrap & Craft Challenge -2W (1st & 3rd) 3E, (W1 of 2)  #8 Lace & Pearls
• Inky Impressions - 2W, SIO - #208 Embellishments
• I love Promarkers - W - Must use Promarkers - #268 Anything Goes
• Paper Shelter Challenge - W,3E, SIO - #202 Lace
• Sisterhood of Crafters  - 2W, 3E -  Monochromatic  See below  (Week 2 of 2)
• Wonderful Wednesdays -  W, SIO -  Always Anything Goes
• Clear It Out W, 3E, Must use stash item - Challenge Theme: Anything Goes Stash: Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiment Designs W, 1E, SIO - Basket, Bag, Box
• Deep Ocean Challenge 2W - #103 - Flowers - (Week 1)
• Passion For Promarkers Challenge W- must use promarkers - #295 Keep Calm and Chill Out (MY CHILLOUT TIME IS SPENT COLOURING :) AFTER ALL IT IS CHEAPER THAN THERAPY HAHAHA)
• A Gem of a Challenge 2W (W1) more than one fold 
• Di's Digis Designs 3E,2W,SIO(W1) load on those flowers