ATB BOX FOR A GIFT

Hello my Lovelies, thanks for stopping by my nest, I'm so excited to share this gift for a Lovely Lady at swimming who has just had a double mastectomy. I'm bless to have so many Lovely ladies in my life including all of you. 

WARNING this is really photo heavy, so you better grab a cuppa, if you can hang around that long, I'll try to keep the chat to a minimum wish me luck with that :O)... 

 Decorating the out side I poured all the red ink I had on my desk then ran my gessoed beer mats in it, then put salt on them, with the rest of the ink I soaked up with a piece of water color paper. When it was dry I stamped my hibiscus flower all over it then fuzzy cut them out, yup, yup, yup, I did put some stickles in the middle and my white sharpie for the stamen, love them..

 Sweet bow, I'll show you that later, instead of leaves I used a cancer ribbon..

 I stamped the sentiment on a gessoed book page, for the hinge I stamped the whole sentiment I used partially  on the inside.

 For the inside below,  rubbed a stencil in red ink, left it over night and it soaked into the gesso, a soft pink, some random script of that sentiment, stamped some swirl and my favorite circles.

I used the rest of that inked red paper to make my strips. I made the top hinge from the paper under it.

For the outside stamped some script and butterflies

Stamped some of my favorite sentiments on tissue for the 4 sides, I added a cloth ribbon, with a sentiment around the bottom..

That sweet bow, I found in my stash, finally found out how they work..

you pull on the middle ribbon, the 2 outside pieces scrunch up to create the bow, these are very old, but I love them..

I made some little love notes everyone can sign...

If you still here, THANK YOU for staying, it was a pleasure to make this for Sue, all the love notes are filled out and ready for her.
Thanks for visiting, I'm off to water fit and will visit later..
((( BIG HUGS )))...

                                            NAMASTE!!!!