Two Christmas Themed Exploding boxes by Liz Marsden

Hi guys, I thought I'd show you two exploding boxes created the same way but with different papers and colours. 

The first one is using the fabulous papers by Carta Bella from the Farmhouse Christmas collection, I've created this for my Daughter and hubby who doesn't really overly do fussy or girly.

I used the fantastic papers on the outside along with the sticker images for on the top. Underneath the sticker I used a Dusty Attic snowflake and one of the clear Rhinestones, then I added a couple more around and on the sticker.

Inside the box I created a scene, they have just moved home so this will be their first Christmas there. I shall show close up pictures now, all sections have some of the papers as the base with a doily effect from my stash over the top.

I got this fabulous Dusty Attic house which I painted with some Finnabair  Burlap Impasto paint, then when dry I went over with some of the Liquid Acrylic in Carmine. This created a little difference in the colour. The Scrapiniec tree has a little Finnabair Modelling paste on here and there and I used some more on the Roof top and on the base. I also added a hint of glitter on the tree.

The section at the back has one of the stickers onto which I added another of the adorable smaller stickers, then more of the D/A Rhinestones.

The front section has this fabulous sticker image of the mantle with stockings - my Daughter usually has these up so I couldn't resist using it, lol.

The left hand side section has this adorable wellies sticker combined with the sleigh - both of these I added the Finnabair Modelling paste on for the snow effect. Another D/A snowflake with some glitter over the top is used as well.

I love this text sticker which I've combined with the tree sticker, snowflake and Ivy, again along with some of the clear Rhinestones,

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Now for the second exploding box, this is for my Granddaughter who loves, glitzy pink and everything girly!!

I used some more of the gorgeous Prima papers from the Sugar Cookie collection, I also used some of the fantastic glitter trim by Prima that matches the paper collection.

Again I used one of the fabulous D/A Snowflakes, this time painted with some white Gesso before the glitter but still with a D/A Rhinestone. The images were fussy cut out of the paper and raised on foam pads, I then simply added some of my pearl effect beads from my stash to match the colours.

This is the front section, with another fussy cut tree raised on with 3D pads, then more snowflakes done in the same way as the top. I also distressed the paper edges on this box with some scissors and a little vintage photo distress ink.

The back section has the same distressed edges on the paper, with a bit of fussy cutting off the paper with this text on; another snowflake and gems were used too.

These adorable D/A  stockings are again painted first with white Gesso but I used the same Heat embossing powder on the two outer ones with the Glitter used for the centre.

I hope these show you how different the boxes can look depending on how you decorate them.

Products used from The Mad Scrapper

Prima Sugar Cookie - Sugar Sweet Christmas

Prima Sugar Cookie - Santa Sweet christmas

Scrapiniec Christmas Tree

Dusty Attic:

Snowflakes

Houses by Nuneka 

Rhinestones

Christmas banners

49 and Market - Wishing Bubbles Minty Breeze

Imagine Ink Embossing powder - Sea Mist

Vintage photo distress ink

Finnabair 

 Modelling Paste

Liquid Acrylic Carmine paint

 Burlap Impasto Paint

Happy Crafting!!

Hugs Liz x