Chester's Music Box

Technique:  Papercraft

Stamps:
Retro Chester by Pollycraft

Pens & Inks:
Copic Pens
Earth Tone: E31, E33, E35
Flesh: E000, E02
Orange: YR02, YR04
Grey: C0, C3, C5, C7, C9
Mustard: Y23, Y26, Y28
Sakura Gelly Roll pen in silver
Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink

Papers:
Xtron by Kaisercraft

The second challenge at LESS-ology is to make a trinket box, and of course you must upcycle at least one item.  So many choices! I chose a box of tea.

The first thing I did was to re-inforce all the edges with tape, the type that picture framers use.  This also hides all the multi-coloured corners.

Then each panel of the box was covered with paper, the edges inked with a little Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink.

Chester has been coloured with Copic pens. I had a little mishap that turned out quite fortuitously.  When I uncapped one of my markers three blobs of ink flew onto the paper, so I had to cut away the background.  This turned out quite well though I thought.

This box is now proudly being displayed in my son's room who is using it to store his Nintendo DS games.

Father's Day Card

Technique:  Papercraft

Materials:
designer paper
DIY Chester digi from Pollycraft
Copic markers

It's Father's Day this Sunday, so a card from my son to his Dad was in order.  We have always joked with our son, who from a wee age has been quite the climber, so we nicknamed him "monkeyboy".  This darling little image of Chester was perfect.  The sentiment inside reads "For the one hundredth time, I am NOT a monkeyboy".  His face was filled with joy as he gave it to his Dad, and isn't that exactly why we do what we do? :o)