Recycled Cigar Box

 

 

You know I am always excited to show you beautiful projects using Susan's dies.  Today I have an Autumn themed recycled project to show you.

This is an old wood cigar box which I thought would be perfect to make beautiful with Susan's Garden Notes Chrysanthemums and Susan's Garden Woodland Leaves.  It is pretty ugly, isn't it.  You can pick up cigar boxes, for very little money, at most any cigar store.  These boxes make great gift boxes for birthdays or the holidays.

Here is how I transformed this box into a gorgeous box anyone would love to receive. First cover the cigar logo.   I created a square to cover the center of the top of the box.  (I wanted to keep as much of the wood showing as possible, so I only covered the logo.)  It was matted with a piece of black card stock, then a smaller rust mat.  I used a piece of textured off-white card stock for the next layer; this layer was sponged around the edges with Old Paper and Tea Dye Distress Inks.  Next a frame of wine card stock was cut and attached over the outside edge of the off-white layer using dimensional tape under it, to give it some dimension.  On top of the wine frame, I added one of the ECD peel off line stickers.  Once all these layers were attached to each other, the frame was attached, with 10mm Double Sided Tape, to the cigar box.

 Using the Chrysanthemum die, die cut chrysanthemums using different colors of card stock. There are a total of 13 flowers on this box top.  I used wine colored card stock, bright yellow card stock and the rest were die cut using white card stock and were shaded with Susan's PanPastels.

 

 

 The above 2 pictures show the pieces used for each chrysanthemum.   For complete instruction on how to create Susan's Garden Note Chrysanthemum, you can watch Susan's YouTube Video at this LINK.  Susan has 15 new videos on Susan's Garden Club playlist on YouTube that will be very helpful in creating your projects with her dies.

 Using Susan's  Garden Woodland Leaves,  die cut a lot of leaves using some white card stock and some Kraft card stock.  The different card stock gives a variety of shades.

All the leaves were first shaped, using Susan's Flower Tool Kit.   Working on a Teflon Craft Mat, all the leaves were colored using a variety of colors from Susan's PanPastels; yellows, greens, orange, rust, bright red and dark red.  The PanPastels blend beautifully creating such beautiful fall colors.  Use a sponge to add the colors which makes it easy to quickly color.  There will be PanPastel dust on your craft mat, so don't forget to pick this dust up with the sponge and blend it over some of the leaves.  If you check the links below, you will be able to purchase two of the PanPastels in a Bundle at a great savings.

 Looking at the picture above, first layer a lot of the Woodland Leaves down the left side and across the bottom of the top of the box.  Attach the Chrysanthemums with dimensional glue dots.  Add as many Elizabeth Craft Designs Curvy Leaves as you like for fillers;  they were die cut using white card stock then sponged with green PanPastel then a little rust around the edges, then  shaped with Susan's Flower Tool Kit.  There are also branches from Susan's CountryScapes Wood 1 die set that were die cut using dark brown card stock, then glued under the leaves.  There is one Elizabeth Craft Designs Berry Branch tucked in that was colored with the wine (dark red) PanPastel.

This is the inside of the box.  A piece of designer paper was placed in the bottom; is a beautiful wood box, so I didn't attached the design paper.  On this box, there was a cigar commercial on the inside of the lid that needed to be covered with a piece of design paper.  Elizabeth Craft Designs Border stickers were added around the edge of the design paper to frame it.  One of Susan's Garden Woodland Leaves was attached on the inside of the lid.

A box decorated with Susan's Garden dies would be a beautiful gift in itself, or you could add a little surprise inside too.  Do you have something you could recycle and make beautiful?

Below are the Links to products I used from Elizabeth Craft Designs:
 
1087 Garden Notes Chrysanthemum
1092 Susan's Garden Woodland Leaves
992 CountryScapes Wood 1
Susan's Tool Kit
30115 Susan's Garden PanPastel Kit 1
30116 Susan's  Garden PanPastel Kit 2
30117 Susan's Garden PaPastel Kit 3
       OR you can purchase PanPastel Bundle 30115/30116 on SALE

730 Curvy Leaves
758 Berry Branch
507 10mm Transparent Double Sided Tape
1060 Border and Corner Peel Off Stickers
1034 Corner and Border Peel Off Stickers