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Fairy School Box

My daughter brought home my old school box during trip from Grandma's. This was an aluminium box which I had taken to school when I was young. I cleaned it and ripped the old cloth and it was all ready for transformation.

She wanted it converted into fairy box. I have never done such a big project so I attempted smaller scale version few months back with shoe box. 
The entire aluminium box lid was painted with Plaidcrafts multi surface paint in white. Since the surface was metal and very smooth ,for better adhesion I used this paint. Also I wanted a very thin layer of paint . The lid was then painted with yellow,blue, green and pink by using baby wipe . The effect was smooth blended and stunning. 


Graphic45 papers from collection "Fairy Dust" and "Once Upon A Time" were used for covering the box and for fussy cut .The bottom part of the box and the edges were glued with these papers.The lid has beautiful fussy cut images.

Each and every fussy cut piece edges were inked with Archival ink in vintage photo and varnished for miore strength. Fairy wings were layered with yet another layer of fussy cut wings ( few even had three layers  and were stuck with foam stickers for popup effect). Ranger Diamond stickles were added to add glitter and extra pop. The dresses were layered and embossed with various embossing powder.

Itsybitsy chipboards were painted with acrylic markers, few were heat embossed with green, brown embossing powders. Handmade flowers, stems and leaves from Itsybitsy enhanced the 3d effect.


Fairy tale creatures like pixies, rabbits and mouse were layered with fussy cut images and so were many flowers. Wink of Stella was used to extra shimmer to these flowers and creatures.
The bottom and interior was decoupaged with various papers.The interior lid has fussy cut flowers stuck.


This project took me long time because of size, weird shape of box, metal surface and I ran out of pretty papers. But worth all the effort. Do let me know your comments.To know more about fussy cutting check out this link.Anna has explained well and she even has videos on fuzzy cutting.


A few more close up shots of the various pieces in the box.






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