Fashionable Pop Up Box

I so enjoy up-cycling cigar boxes, but one day, while shopping at my local Michaels, I found a wooden box marked down. I bought it and put it aside.
I've used Graphic 45 "A Ladies Diary" for several of my cigar boxes, including those I gave my plastic surgeon to donate for cancer research. Those papers make any box decorative. Now, I combined my lovely lady of the 20's from the Cricut "Art Deco" cartridge in this box as a pop up. My latest box has turned into a vintage fashion show!

Tim Holtz feet at the box bottom.

World Card Making Day Today!

I'm lovin working in my art/craft room! That Curtain Call Box using the Cricut Art Deco Cartridge gave me more ideas. When I cut the fabulous 1920's car (Car 2 page 31) at 3" and place it in front of the or landscapes by Sheena Douglass' collections, I get a whole new card series.

I'm so ready for World Card-Making Day! I could work on these all day, such fun! Are you ready??

Cancer Cigar Box Part 4

If you are following my cancer journey, you know that a melanoma was taken off my right foot and a wonderful plastic surgeon, Dr. Sergio Zamora (Daytona Beach) reconstructed the bottom of my foot. Although my foot is sensitive, I'm walking and I have started driving my car.

The cigar boxes that I up-cycled for the doctor will be in the fundraiser today. In exchange he gave me several boxes to work on and so far I finished one real beauty! The outside is so nice, that I didn't want to mess it up.

I worked only inside the cigar box carrying a South American theme of the 1920's. The city street was made using a Sheena Douglass rubber stamp several times cut and colored (Tombow Markers) buildings. The Graphic 45 "Curtain Call" paper collection was used in the box. The car and dressy figures were cut from good cardstock using the Cricut "Art Deco" cartridge. This cartridge is my favorite.

My wonderful and supportive husband figured out the really tricky pop up features. He always makes my visions a reality!

A Curtain Call Cigar Box

If you have been following my blog, you would know, that recycling cigar boxes  using Graphic 45 paper is a favorite hobby of mine.

This week I finally finished the inside of a box, which I had started a while back. The box is covered inside and out with the Graphic 45, "Curtain Call," paper collection.

The tricky part was putting the jazzy dancers on a stage inside the box. The dancers were cut from cardstock and layered using my Cricut "Art Deco" cartridge. The smallest you can make the figures is at the 5" mark. The stage is made from real wood scrapbook paper. My husband helped me to figure it all out. Without his help my vision of how I wanted it, as a pop up box, would never have happened. His birthday was yesterday. He supports me in everything I do!

Happy Birthday, Sandy!