Sweet Pea Stamps: Mermaid gift box - Maigan Lynn

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Mermaid gift box - Maigan Lynn - Tera

Hallo,
   Can you tell that I love making gift boxes?? My Mom saved 4 boxes that she had with this cute little drawer in them and this is #3 of 4 decorated now. This time I used an image from Maigan Lynn called 'Something in the way' - it is available as a digital image as well as a rubber stamp.
I colored her with prismacolor pencils and cut her out with a Spellbinders die. I edged the main panel with gold metallic pen and then added a frame of small seed beads with crystal lacquer and the seashells are stickers.
I colored the armbands with the gold metallic pen too and added glitter to those and her eyes and some of the seashells.
The box is about 5 by 8 inches and I covered it with pretty cardstock. The drawer pull is a piece of twine threaded through a pretty matching button.
   All for today - Take Care
      Tera

stampqueen

I am about to adventure into the life of Retirement and am looking forward to significantly more time in the studio, playing with my Grandkids and traveling now and then with the hubby. I have spent 41 years as an RN - mostly in Critical Care. I picked up painting and more formal art again when my kids went from High School into college. I have always done some form of art, even in the busy years of Career, Mom, Military wife - mostly in the crafty forms(sewing, rubber stamping, its a long list...) Now I mainly paint with encaustic wax. Encaustic is an ancient art form from Greece and Egypt that uses beeswax, natural tree resin and pigments. Encaustic is painted while melted in thin layers and every layer is fused to those below with heat( I mostly use a torch). True to my 'normal' self I have 3 or 4 other hobbies that keep me busy too , and you will be seeing(and have been) those here too.