Exploding box - Orange and Cars theme

Hi All! Wish you all a very Happy (belated) Friendship Day. Here I am with another exploding box that I had made on order. The color is mainly orange and theme is "Cars".

You may like to see my other Exploding boxes with below themes:

1. Pink and Garden theme

2. Blue and Ocean theme

3. Birthday theme

Let's have a look at the box now. Isn't the PP so gorgeous. Thanks so much Khush for sending this across and to ICR for arranging the 6x6" paper swap :)

 I made this tag for the top. I did some doodling on the border, stuck Miss Elizabeth's sentiment stickers, that I purchased from Hobby Ideas, and some black rhinestones.

 Here we go...The cut of this box is different from the others that I made.

 A peek inside...

 Open it up....

Do you see the 3 different springs that I have made. The cars stickers rest on the springs.

 

 I made a little fence around the springs and stuck some more stikers on it.

 A placeholder for a tag and for writing the kid's name.

Three of the inner panels have photos and fourth one has the kids name as above..

The four outer panels for journalling

 The full layout [Click to enlarge]

Hope you like my creation!! Thanks for visiting.

Challenges entered
Snehal's Challenge: Explosion box or any other box
Amusing Challenges - Use a Tag

Secret Crafter - #197 Gifts

Exploding box - Blue and Ocean theme

Hi all. Here is another exploding box that I made on order. The client wanted a blue colored box so I thought of having an ocean/sea theme.

Here is a look at the box

Top view of the box. I have used raffia, some dried grass, shells, fish charm and a star fish to give a snapshot of the inner theme.

A peek inside... do you see my li'l fishes popping up!!

The full layout [click to enlarge]

 Here I have used 3 small springs, as opposed to 1 in my last exploding box.

I have adhered fish stickers on the springs and the base.

I used Itsy Bitsy stickers to write the child's name. I have handcut the tag and stamped it using masking technique.

The four outer corners have pockets made with PP to hold tags made in various shapes and colors. The hexagon tag in purple here...

Star shaped tag in orange

Round tag in yellow color

Oval tag in green

Here is a view of all the tags together....

Thanks for visiting.

Challenges entered
Dutch Dare Card Challenge - Anything BUT a Card
Hanna and Friends - cute/stamped/include person/animal - Summer
Paper Play - Layer It Up !
Fab 'n' Funky - #132 anything but a card
Crafting for all Seasons - #32 water
Freshly Brewed - #107 photo insp
Creative Card Crew - #16 On The Beach/Under The Sea
Creative Mondays - Water
The Crazy Challenge - Under the Sea/Beside the Sea
Truly Madly Crafty Challenges - Animals

Exploding box - Pink and Garden theme

Hi All. I made 6 exploding boxes this month. I will be sharing all of them one by one. You can view the first one here. This is the second one that I made on order. The client wanted a "Pink" themed box for a young girl. So this is what I came up with. It is a garden themed box with lots of pink and butteflies.

I have used off-white paper for the base. The lid is bright green and topped  with PP and a pink butterfly. For the first time I have used designer sticky note strips in place of pattern papers, and I guess they look equally good. They are also super easy to work with. The colorful diamond patterned strip on the lid is a sticky note and so is the checkered pink around the box. I used two of them for the outer side to cover the empty space.

There are many firsts in this box. I made a spring out of the regular craft wire used to make stocking flowers, etc. I wound it on a round object to make the spring.  

 The box opens up like this...

 I have pasted Perizaad's photos on 3 panels and written her name on the 4th one. The outer four panels are left for journalling.

 These letter stickers are a local buy.

 Here again, on the outer panels I have used circular designer sticky notes for writing personal messages.

 Another circular designer sticky note.... These are repeated on 2 sides.

 I loved the way the spring springs up! It wobbles with slightest of wind around.

The Just for you sentiment is stamped. I have used lots of punched daisy flowers on the spring. The green PP at the base gives a nice garden look.

 A close-up shows plastic butterflies stuck onto the wire from below. To hide the wire, I stuck silver glitter balls on to it. There are more glitter balls on the base PP and some silver butterflies from Pie Lane too.

Hope you like my creation as much as I enjoyed making it.

Challenges entered

Snehal's Challenge: Explosion box or any other box

Hussena's challenge on Do More with Less: Make punched flowers

Creative Craft Challenges - Summer time

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - #65 Summer Fun

Sassy Cheryl's - #126 Pretty Papers

Twisted Tuesday - Anything Goes

The Stamping Boutique - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs - Anything but a Card

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Sentiment 
Come and Get It Challenges - Anything BUT a Card

CD Mini Album

Hey! Sharing my first CD mini album. I wouldn't have dared to make this, if not for the swap arranged by the 3 stooges - Khushboo, Tejal and Soumya. And I must say their inpirations and helpful guidance helped me to make one and participate in the swap. I had absolute fun making this and I am now glued to making mini albums :)

**Picture heavy post**

The cover: I've used mixed sets of papers from Paper Mania for the entire album. The flowers are made using big daisy punch. The center of it is actually metal. I have used hair clips that come in different colors. I detached the twirls and placed them behind the flowers. The alphabet stickers are from Itsy Bitsy. The 1" craft binders are from A1 craft supply.

Panel 1: I have used bunting here using circle punch. For some more ideas on using circle punch, refer my tute here.

The frame die cut and tag are from Itsy Bitsy. The green butterflies are from Pie Lane. I also stamped the butterflies to create an added effect.

Panel 2: I really love this one coz it has a moving element. The four tags are lined together and fastened using an eyelet which allows movement. So when closed they all get in one line. When opened, they look like the pic below.

Panel 3:  These butterflies are from Itsy Bitsy again. I wanted to glam them up so I used my 5 petal flower punches for this. I have used 2 sizes of flowers, punched them on white glitter paper, cut each petal and stuck on to the b'fly. The center is done using black rhinestones. The flowers on the left are the ones made using small flower punch. 

Panel 4: Did you notice the bg here.... half moon shaped. Its a simple page to jot down Birthday memories. The cupcake and gift box embelishments are from Itsy Bitsy. 

Panel 5: I loved this page too..... the way it turned out to be. The letter I and white panel are handcut. Ribbons are from my stash. The pink flowers are punched using large flower punch. 

Panel 6: This is a simple one again. I added some flower shaped buttons. I cut a doily into half and used for bg on top of the PP. 

Panel 7: I have made a small pocket here with a tag insert.  

Panel 8: This is also an interesting page. I created some space for journalling. That cute li'l flag adds to the overall look of the page.  

Some more photos...... I just couldn't stop clicking :) :)

Tip: In case you don't have a punch to drill holes into the CDs, you can heat an iron nail and use it to drill holes in to the CD. I have used this technique for the CD Mini album. 

Challenges entered

Lulupu:  Mini Album Challenge

Top Tip Tuesday: All about circles

There's Magic in the Air - Waste Not

Penny Black and More - Summer Blooms

Anything Goes Challenge - #72 Let's Not Be Square

Mega Celebration Event 2 Guest Challenge - Winner

The only name that came to my mind while deciding for the Guest Challenge was Priya Sondhi! We all know her as the ICR Achiever for the year 2011. She is the Guest Deisgner for ICR and her creations have always wowed us. Priya has recently moved to US on work assignment. We wish her luck and hope to see her creations as soon as she is settled there.

Priya had suggested two options for the Guest Challenge and sent me the inspiration cards for both. I thought the Pink and White with a splash of Black was quite challenging to achieve. So we decided to go ahead with it.

The judgement for this event was totally left to Priya and in her own words.... "It was a tuff job! phewwwwww... I am still not able to decide."

I would like to mention here that all the 21 entries were awesome and we had fun looking at each one of them :) Thanks so much for playing along and showing so much enthusiasm!!

Here is Priya's final pick....

The winning entry for Priya's Guest Challenge on my blog is.......

Dr. Sonia

And the Top 3 in no order are.....

Hussena with her wonderful trio

Snehal with her cute card

Nupur with her awesome Magic Explosion Box 

Congratulations to Dr. Sonia and Top 3.

Dr. Sonia wins the wonderful prize sponsored by Pie Lane.
Dr. Sonia please email me your complete address along with the contact number.

And the Top 3 will receive a blinky to flaunt on their blogs! 

You can check out the detailed post about this challenge here along with other entries for the challenge. 

And so this marks the end of my mega celebrations. I had so much fun hosting this and I hope everyone who joined in had fun too!!
All the winners are announced. To get an overview, refer the main post here.