It's finally time to sit back, sip some hot chocolate, and enjoy the beautiful spirit of this season. I wanted to show you a couple of the handmade gifts I made this year-- upcycled pine trinket boxes. I painted the boxes and faux distressed them, made paper clay embellishments and painted them, glued them on, and varnished the final product. These were VERY fun to put together! In fact, I'm planning on doing some more of these fantasy-style for my
Etsy shop. These can also be personalized with special words, dates, or names.
The paper clay embellishments were made using various methods. I sculpted the moon, the leaves are reliefs of actual leaves, and the star and the words were done with stamps. The moon box was made to house the moonstone and lapis lazuli necklace that I also made, which has a matching paper clay moon pendant. Unfortunately, I wrapped the necklace up before I remembered that I wanted to take a picture!
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| The "garden" box has a dried pansy that was pressed in the spring adhered to the inside of the lid. |
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| I traced the box's lid onto wax paper, then sculpted the moon directly on the paper before transferring to the box. |
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