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Thursday 12 June 2014

June Smeared and Smudged Blog Hop


June Monthly Member Blog Hop


You should have arrived here on the June Smeared and Smudged Members' Blog Hop -
you will find the hop order above...

The challenge was  ALTER A FOUND OBJECT.

No cards or scrapbook pages allowed, the item must be 3-D and must have started out as something you found at a thrift store, on the side of the road, in the back of your closet, etc. 

Well, this little gift box has been kicking around my craft room for a couple of years - when my friend Nancy, another expat, was leaving Abu Dhabi, she had several things to 'dispose of' !
This was one...

I decided I would embellish it!

 I started with a Dragonslair digi the frame of which linked to the shape of the box
"Happy and you know it"

I then printed out words from the song and images of hands and feet Smeared Ink images on turquoise blue textured cardstock.

This gave me the two sides and ends:

That left me with the top:


I then found a skull, drawn by my Teamie at LOC, the lovely Lisa Tyrell
which I printed three times in different colours so I could paper-piece the rose together.
By the way Lisa has some June Blog Candy here!!

I then added flowers and ribbon...I have been singing the song all day!

Next you should go to Anna

Happy Crafting!


15 comments:

  1. Now I'm nodding too. I love your project and the colours and those images and gorgeous embellishments.

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  2. This is brilliant Susan, love the colours and the images.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  3. Nice summer colors and such a great use of the digis! Now you know that song will be stuck in my head allllllll day! Wonderful alteration.

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  4. This is fun! I love altered boxes! Great images to go with the song!...I had a storm come through before I could get my post up...please take leslierahye out of the line up and send them on to the next hopper! Thanks!

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  5. Great box - the colours and images are so eyecatching! Love to see Lisa's digis popping up all over the place!

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  6. Beautiful box you created, love the text and images you added!
    Hugs, Elenor

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  7. Nice work! Love the colour mix - I wouldn't have thought of it but they work really well! :o)

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  8. Hi Susan, A fabulous project, love the colours.

    Hugs Erin x

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  9. Oh, great colors and what a great project :)

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  10. What a great transformation. Love the bright colours.
    That song is my little grand daughters favourite!
    Thank you so much Susan for taking part in this months members blog hop. BDx

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  11. Great little gift box Susan. Love all the stamps and expressions you used to alter and repurpose this box.

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  12. What a fun project! Love the nodding happy skull!

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