Handmade love notes are not just for Valentine’s Day. I’m sharing a little trash to treasure project with you using heart buttons and a paper box. The box hada little accident. I have several other boxes like it that I’ve decorated with my favorite Authentique papers, and this was my last box, so I wanted to use it for something special.
I took pictures along with way. A little love, a lot of tape, some heart buttons (of course) and other Doo-Dahs, and I think it outshines all my other boxes. There is a funny little story about embellishments below too.
Do you love, love, love Clearance? When my kids were little, they thought Clearance was a person. We regularly visit Uncle Clarence to see what he’s got for us. [insert chuckle here]
Anyway, I got the beautiful chunky glitter encrusted flower on clearance. It’s from Prima. The bad news, if it was on clearance, maybe they don’t make them any more? Sorry! Any gorgeous flower will do, and you could always add your own glitter.
Do you love those crocheted flowers? My friend Linda Weber makes them. I make things or send her stuff I don’t need, and she sends me hand made flowers. It’s a sweet barter system.
I added a small leaf underneath the rose, it’s from Creative Impressions. To the centers of the handmade flowers I added yes, a favored heart button, and a button from my Buttons Galore and More stash and used Beacon’s to glue it all down.
Supplies:
Additional Supplies
- Additional Buttons – from my stash
- Papers – Authentique
- Embellishments (Knob, Trinket Pin, Crystals and Pearls, Key Hole and Key, Feet, Corners) and Tissue Tape – Tim Holtz for Advantus, the Ideaology line
- Rose – Prima
- Crocheted Flowers – handmade by my good friend Linda Weber,
- Bling – Nestabling from Want2Scrap
- Ink – Black Ink from Close To My Heart
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- Buttons Item Number 4127
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- Crushed Blackboard Box
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- Use tape to assemble box
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- Assemble box
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- Apply tape to seams. Sand rough edges.
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- Pre-cut pieces, ink them to match, adhere going the same direction.
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- Don’t forget to cover the bottom
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- Beacon’s 3-1. It’s goopy, it’s stringy, but it HOLDS! It also dries amazingly fast.
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- Rubber Bands hold it while drying.
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- Buttons in All the Pretty Flowers
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- It’s not right til we add tons of pretties, right?
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- Peek at the keyhole. Note the patterned paper inside. Paste a small leftover piece
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- Buttons on the side… Oooh, Aaah.
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- Nestabling adds a sweet little touch.
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- additional view inside box
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- Inside the paper covered box
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- There’s the bling
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- Love Notes box Thanks for Looking!
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Awesome project! Thanks for posting the link on FB…I always forget to hop around blogs but when the links are on FB I ALWAYS pop over! :D