Pink Butterfly gift box!

I'm late, I'm late, Oh how embarassing I'm late posting my project for my second guest DT spot over at

I'm sooo sorry girls!

Anyway, I don't know about you but I'm all Christmassed out! I've only got one last family card to put the finishing touches on and I'm done - thank heavens! The girls over at Creative Craft Challenges have a nice 'Anything goes' challenge and so I decided to ditch the snowflakes in favour of something pink and girly for my friends birthday next month - a little gift box to hold a piece of jewellery! Here it is:

The idea for this little box came from a packet of ready cut gift boxes from Poundland. There are several different box types flat packed in the packet and so I just used them as cardboard templates! A bit fiddly to cut out but great fun to decorate!! I have used a fairly stiff paper from the Henbury Lane collection and some glitter card by DCWV.

The little tag is a nesties label attatched with ribbon and the butterflys are a Dovecraft punch.


The roses have been wired to the top handles and glammed up a bit with a hint of stickles!!

Thanks for looking and I do hope your festive preparations are going OK!

Don't forget to visit Creative Craft Challenges - there are TWO great prizes on offer!!

As usual I can't resist entering a few challenges:

Paperplay - Anything but a card

Allsorts - Anything goes

CES Challenges - Anything goes

Die Cut Dreams - how girly can you get?

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Papertake weekly - Anything goes

Husband & Wife!

I'm celebrating!! This will be my last Monday at work for this year!! Sounds good doesn't it!! I can't wait to finish on Wednesday, there are so many things I need to get done before Crimbo!!

Monday also means it's time for another fab challenge over at Lexi's Creations, this time we'd like to see you using:

GLITTER & PEARLS

Now, I have to admit that when I first saw this challenge I thought of doing a Christmas card but I am getting a bit tired of doing them (only 2 to go!!), so instead I decided to do something I don't normally go for and just use a sentiment on my card:

The sentiment is from Lexi's Fairy Dust crafts Shop and is called Husband & Wife. Lexi is offering a prize from her shop for the winner of this challenge!! Here's a closer look:

The pearls are on the sentiment, along with a few gold gems and the flowers have had a touch of gold stickles added:

Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, in real life this is a bit brighter and the gold is quite sparkly!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew: Anything goes
CES Challenges: Anything but a Christmas card

Thanks for looking and hope you can join us over at Lexi's!!