Anything Goes - Box with fabric

Hellooooooooo!  I am rounding up this 'anything goes' week with a *BOX* decorated with brightly coloured fabric!  The box itself is around 8x8inches square and about 2inches deep.....a really handy size for all sorts of things!  Its a great box for stash storage as well as for putting a gift in.  I have made up a few of these over the years now and this time I have added some internal storage!

The box kit comes with a grid for the top, some tic-tac-toe pieces and 10 rounded squares.  I have disgarded the play pieces and used the squares which I covered in fabric and put into the grid on the top of the box.  I added fabric to the sides of the lid with some daisy braid.

I also added fabric inside the lid and the bottom.  For the box insert I used 3 *SMALL CUBBBEYS* which were glued together and then wrapped in fabric with fabric in the bottoms.

I didn't glue them down in the box so that I can move them around.

Not sure what I will use the box for, probably beads!!!

Thank you for taking a look.  Please leave a comment as we love to hear from you , take care, Karen xxx

November Colour Theme - Tic Tac Toe Tutorial

It's a new month and with that a new colour theme! This month we indulge in a gorgeous pink and grey palette.

For my project I have chosen to work with this fab Tic Tac Toe box.

I have worked with tonal colours in pinks and greys, stencilling the box and game pieces in a variety of stencil designs.

The game pieces have also been painted in a similar way to the box, with pink colours being used for one piece type and greys for the other.

I have included pearls and crystals to further embellish and edged everything in metallic silver to finish.  For more details there is a Tutorial PDF for you to download *HERE*

Tando products used;

Tic Tac Toe Box

Box

Hi, its Karen here with another make using the pretty November Colour Theme.  For this I have decorated the *Tic Tac Toe Box* (without the noughts & crosses etc).

After I glued all the pieces together and added some gesso I spread some *white modelling paste* through Gio's pretty *Eighties* mask/stencil.  When this was dry I went over the whole top of the box with the lighter blue in the colour them, then , putting the mask back over, I added the two terracotta colours and the dark brown. (I added the dark brown after this pic was taken)

I added *Crackle Glaze* over the two colours above and around the edge of the box.  When that was dry I added *Red Oxide Antiquing Cream*, rubbing it back when it was dry.  I added *Liquid Glass* to the dark brown areas.

The sides of the lid were painted in dark brown and the base was painted in the blue.  I lined the bottom of the base with brown felt and the inside of the lid with patterned paper.  Then I went round all the edges with a copper pen.

Inside the lid...

Thank you for joining us today, do come and visit us again soon! Take care x

Anything Goes Week!

Helloooooo!  Its another 'anything goes' week and I am showing you a box that I made up to store sewing threads.  This was made as a Christmas present and I forgot to take a pic of it loaded with cotton reels but it takes around 36 standard reels. Its just the right depth :-D

I have made up the basic  *Tic-Tac-Toe* box using different colours of acrylic paint.  The *Sew Simple Set* elements added have also been painted.  I added thread around the cotton reels and stamped a 'tape measure' around the edges of the lid.  Here are the kits I combined...

This box is lovely and sturdy and although I have given it a sewing theme, it could be decorated in a lot of different way.  This project will be out in kit form soon so if you fancy one do please look out for it on the website *HERE*.

If you fancy entering our monthly draw then you are welcome to have a go with any of our themes through the month.  Just enter a link to your work on the tab at the top of the blog.

Thank you so much for looking today :-D, Karen HUGS xxx

Decorated box!

This week I am bringing you a largish decorated Tando box!  The kit is actually the Tic Tac Toe Box but I have decorated it differently using different elements.

I made up the box before adding acrylic paints, using a different colour each side.  Lovely and bright eh?  On the top of the lid I used 2 sets of the FLOURISH 7 on the corners,  4 Twinchies (stamped) in the centre and then a Multi Loop Karen's Frame on top of those.

These are fantastic box to use to put that special gift in and they are incredibly easy to put together!  Here are the pieces that I used...

The main kit...I shall use the other pieces on another project!

The lovely corner flourishes...

The little frame...(pack of 4)

and of course the twinchies...

 

You can buy all these direct from Tando Creative *here*  Thank you for popping by today, take care, Karen xxx