Take one box...

So you take one box,  which started out green, then was painted brown...  you run out of ideas, so it lays on the shelf for a few weeks.

Then you remember it, have an idea and bring it back out.  So this is what it looked like yesterday, pretty grim, and still some evidence of the green.

So after a couple of coats of gesso,  black, a coat of PVA, then brown and you end up with something like this.  I left it in the sun, yes the yellow object found its way through the clouds,  so it could crack and do its stuff.

Whilst that was happening, I had dinner and watched the tennis.

Today it was time to tidy up the inside,  thought about just painting it but then remembered the decopatch.  

So with the inside done,  time to focus on the spine.  For this I used a thin piece of white card,  trimmed it to fit,  used some strong DST,  and made four grooves in the card,  inked and stamped to give it an aged look.  Added four gold peel off strips, and the die cut.

And this is the front.  I used the Spellbinders gold die,  cut out with white card, then used some gold wax on it,  and oval of white card, embossed with clear powder,  and the silhouette, also embossed with clear powder.  So one grotty box transformed!  I'm rather chuffed with this.  This is what I sort of had in mind a few weeks ago, but didn't have enough concentration.

Yep the hinges are a bit wobbly, but they were to begin with!

Oh and Murray won the tournament.  Just watching the fun and games now with the charity match, hope this will prove that Mr Murray does have a sense of humour.

It's been a nice day,  managed to get out for a walk now that summer seems to have returned,  it just needs to hang around for the next 3 weeks!

So all for now, hope you've had an enjoyable weekend,  and thanks for stopping by.