A busy weekend...

After finishing another card for an upcoming challenge, I got busy this weekend making some more of those sweet little Mini Tissue Boxes. This time instead of gluing down the sides to the box, I actually made a box that would slide over the top of the box. When the tissues are gone, just replace it.

I have to admit that I struggled a little making up my first box. I'm useless with math, and trying to get the lid to be the right size for the box put me out of my comfort zone. But I finally got it down and decided to keep going with a second and third before I forgot my formula.

Here is the first cover I made. It's quite plain, even though I embossed the top and used a Nelly Snellen die for the tissue outlet and sponged the edges of the lid, but I didn't want to distract from the sweet images. I call this one Tilda Around the World. I used four images
#229 Mini Cowgirl Tilda, #303 Mini Spanish Tilda, #332 Mini India Tilda and #290 Mini Chinese Tilda. All of these images are available from Diana at the Magnolia-licious online store. Just click on the link above and it will take you to the home page.






Then I wanted to get girly and fussy so I made another Mini Tissue Box Cover using SU Shimmer White for the top and Pirouette Pink (or Bazzill facsimile) for the bottom. I again embossed the top and also embossed the die cut piece around the tissue opening. I then cut two more of those openings and embossed them and used them on two sides of the box. I decorated those ovals with some pretty flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. I used my Marianne Dies for the leaves and then decided to make this little box a birthday theme. So I used#294 Mini Tilda with a Balloon and #233 Congratulations Tilda for the remaining opposite sides. As you can see soft pink, soft yellow and white are the theme here.






For my final Mini Tissue Box cover I went with a Christmas theme. This box took me forever to pull together and it's the least favorite of them all. I started out with Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive Card stock for the box and once I got it put together I didn't like it at all. Rather than throw it out I walked away from it for a while. Then my dear hubby suggested that I use some Christmas dp to cover the sides with. Oh, thought I, that just might work. So I sorted through my horde of Christmas dp and decided that most of it was much to busy to really work with the images. In the end I found this plaid which I thought worked quite well. So I covered the side and applied my images. Hmmmmm, still not happy with that, so I took the oval die cut off the top and redid it in the plaid. Okay, that works better! I added some pearls to it and really liked that, but the box was still too plain. I dug through my cut ribbon box and found some nice Christmasy red ric rak and glued it to the edge of the top....okay, now we're cooking. Then I added the tinest of pearls around the scallops of each image and put a larger pearl along the top of the ric rak. Okay, I better leave it alone now...leave well enough alone.






Then I pulled out another little notebook that has it's own little pen and covered it with some pretty dp from a 6X6 stack called Rose Garden by Papermania. Then I colored with sweet Tilda #3011 Tilda with Straw Hat also available from Diana at Magnolia-licious. Rather than covering that pretty paper with a mat and then Tilda, I cut Tilda out and glued her directly to the paper. It works for me!



So that's what has kept me going through this exceptionally hot weekend. All of the items will be available in my ETSY shop. The kids were well behaved, I had a visit from my friend and even took a nap this afternoon. Thanks for stopping by my blog, it's so much appreciated...
Hugs and blessings,
Barb