Perfume shadowbox

I had an old perfume gift box (one of those a woman invariably gets at christmas with the perfume and usually body lotion within) so finally decided to put it to good use, as well as using some crafty stuff that I hadn't used before. I'm entering this in the That Craft Place anything goes challenge

Anyway, I started off by using some G45 Steampunk spells paper to line the box, leaving the outside as I felt I wanted the inside to be the craft piece. I then used a new technique (to me anyway), using foil tape which I stuck to card, embossed, then dabbed with alcohol inks. I still don't have the right technique with these, and I wasn't totally happy with the result, so I got my black soot paint and used it on the embossed sections. It turned out rather well

Once I was happy with this I cut some pebbled paper with the pediments die (something I haven't used before) and attached one pediment to the top and one to the bottom, before stamping out the phrase I wanted, cutting and inking each word separately, and attaching to the foil.

I added an arrow to the top, some pearls to decorate, and a H to stand for the author of the quote, Henry Anthony Wilcox. The whole quote is actually "Our lives are not measured in years, they're not measured in achievement. Our lives are measured in nightmares and sorrows." Dark, but poetical at the same time.

On the other side of the box, I started with a grungeboard spiral which I painted black and decorated with different coloured sprinkles. I glued this to the base, before adding a white wing with crackle paint and blue ink onto the tag portion of the piece, and attaching that with foam pads. I got some fragments, glued some tick tock paper onto them, then added some rub ons on the top, before positioning them onto the spiral. Finally I cut some flowers out of the reverse of the tick tock paper (inked, glued together with a pearl in the centre, and with tick tock leaves) and some butterflies out of the hot air balloon paper of the Steampunk Spells pad (this is all Steampunk Spells btw). I was originally going to use the blue cog piece on the other side of the hot air balloon bit but I actually preferred the balloon side.

I added some butterflies to the wings

The majority of the butterflies are on the fragments. For some reason I didn't want to put any on the tag part itself.

(You can see my vintage Singer in the background - still not brave enough to use it yet!)

So there it is! Hope you like it.

Ems

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