Ye Old Cigar Box

I picked up this old cigar box at the local flea market .

The box was painted and then I glued old music sheets to the top and pieces to the sides. The edges were distressed and a bit of paint smudged onto the edges. 

Brown card was embossed and then inked with distress ink. Pieces of the embossed card were cut for the top and sides and glued down on top of the music paper. Another piece of card with a music print was placed on the top of the embossed card once the ink had dried.

A chipboard set of wings was painted cream and then paper from "My Minds Eye" 6x6 pad called Bramble Rose set the tone for the rest of the colour scheme. The flowers were cut out of the same paper pad using a Tim Holtz dye and scrunched and screwed up until they looked three dimension. A pearl brad was pushed through the centre to hold them together and they were glued into place.Little acrylic pink flowers were placed around these larger paper flowers. A smaller heart from my chipboard stash was placed on top (this already had a bit of a pattern in glitter on it) and a wee copper heart with a ribbon threaded through it was placed on the top.

Using an old fishing swivel  I attached a fish and copper disk to it and glued this onto the box under the flowers. Another piece from my chipboard stash- the frame- was painted and a small piece of complimenting paper was used to cover it . The edges were distressed. I stamped the word IMAGINE using a little alphabet set I have . Brads were placed on each  side of the frame. A vellum print out with the butterfly and script background was tucked into the frame under the text.9 as an experiment and I liked it so left it there)

I used some beads I had purchased to make a necklace, as feet, which were perfect.