Spring Is Here - another matchbox!

I recently did a one to one altered matchbox trade with

PeggyR of My Affairs With Art & Daily Life

Peggy had never altered a matchbox before and she chose

the theme of Spring/Easter.

For my matchbox I used an egg template which was designed by Angellea.

I cut the template from card - cut 2 of each part

as it needs to have a ribbon sandwiched inbetween to allow

the two cracked shell parts to open.

For the outside I painted the egg with MiniMezze paint (Pacific colour),

 then applied Crackle Accents.

For the inside the egg was painted with Folk Art paint

 colour Taffy and lightly rubber stamped randomly.

The drawer edges were coloured with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

I used a freebie stamp from Craft Stamper magazine (April 2012 issue) - stamped it on tissue paper then mod podged it to the inside of the drawer.
The inside was painted light blue first.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fibres which I thought looked a bit like a bird's nest were stuck

 with hot melt glue, to the front of the box as was the egg.

The shots above show the underside and the drawer pull

which consisted of a paper flower, a bead and a brad.

The egg opens up to reveal this image

which I found on the Flickr collage group.

Here's the contents of the box

I wanted to include a wired bird nest charm which I made

following this tutorial.

I received a lovely box back from Peggy which I need to take

a photo of - I also received my March 'Shamrock' matchbox today

from my Flickr swap partner - so I will show them in

another post.

Thanks for looking - and happy first day of Spring to you xx