Sunday, February 7, 2010

Valentine's Day gift for my hubby...





I've had this box for over a year just knowing that I could do something fabulous with it. It was a gift from parents that began life as a Christmas coffee collection container from Starbucks. I just thought it was so cool as it had two sections that lift up and resembled a book, I only had to figure out it's newest purpose.

My husband and I have been talking since we got married almost four years ago about putting together a box that would hold brochures, suggestions, dreams, hopes, little gifts, etc. that each of us could access to get ideas to surprise one another. I realized this Starbucks box was the perfect container for this project. I couldn't just leave it as it was - it had to be a lot more creative! So for the last couple of weeks I've been perfecting the graphics for all the elements of the box. I combined vintage elements from my collection as well as some fun French graphics I found at The Graphics Fairy and created others when I couldn't find exactly what I wanted. Once I had them all designed, they were printed out and glued to the box and then sealed with some beeswax to add a more vintage-y feel.

Now the fun part of adding ideas and little surprises to the "Love Wishes" box begins! I can't wait until this weekend to see hubby's reaction!





XXXOOO


10 comments:

  1. What a gorgeous box!!! I really love the colors you used and the way you combined the different elements! Thank you so much for linking this up to "Brag Monday"!

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  2. Wow, this has a very authentic vintagey look, I love it!

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  3. I must know - what is the beeswax product???

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  4. Thanks for the lovely comments! It was a lot of fun to design and put together! As far as the beeswax product, it's just a big block of beeswax that I picked up at Michaels and melted, brushed on and then smoothed with my heat gun.

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  5. This is so awesome! WOW! Great idea!!! You are extremely talented!

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  6. Thanks for your very kind comments, JIllian! Your blog is beautiful, too!

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  7. I love this! What a perfect box to use for this purpose, too! Love the papers you used and my favorite ~ harlequin paper, too.

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  8. Thank you Kathy! I love your home design work - it's gorgeous!!

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  9. I like the idea of this box very much. The design with all the details is just perfect and so vintagey!

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  10. What a fantastic idea--and your details make this an amazing design.

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