A Wintery Altered Matchbox

I'm back on the matchboxes again - lol

The theme for this month on the Flickr group

Matchbox Monthly Swap

is 'sparkly, blue winter'.

I covered the matchbox with watercolour paper

sprayed with tones of blue.

The focal point on the top of the matchbox

is a sparkly white tree which is die cut shrink plastic

using the Sizzix Alteration Bigz die 'Branch Tree'.

I wound some white wire around a few of the

branches to hang some sparkly blue beads

- you see it is a magical winter tree!

I sprinkled some glitter here and there

and some sparkly flakes at the foot of the tree.

As you can see from the above photo, I glued

some lace on the edges and the ends (and the inside) were

covered with self adhesive glittery shiny paper.

For the drawer pull, I used a large holed bead

with a brad inserted through.



I filled the matchbox with an assortment of

little goodies - I tried to keep to the blue

and white/silver theme.

My swap partner

 Lesley of Harmony Road Studio

has now received this matchbox

and I'm pleased to say she liked it - yay!!

Thanks for looking :)