Hello everyone, Desiree’ with you today!

To share a ”Creepy Cute”, keepsake box.

That I altered, I began with a heart shaped balsa wood box from my stash.

I covered it with  a layer of white gesso.

Next I traced around the bottom of my box, and around the lid, 

then I cut it out of my patterned paper.

Since I wanted to be able to remove the lid easily I did not want to 

add anything extra under the lid! So I put the lid on the box and measured 

the space from where the lid ended to the bottoms of the box.

I cut 2 paper strips out of my 12x12  paper.

Cutting the down to fit on 1/2 of the box.

I painted the lid, and some embellishments, at this point I decoupaged my paper on too!

Next, I knew I wanted to use my eBrush for some shading.

And so I did. Love my eBrush! I decided to use a deeper color to shade with and I loved it.

Hey, Desiree' here. It's my VERY first post for the Craftwell Blog!! To me it feels like winter has been around since FOREVER! I know Spring is just around the corner though, and so I decided to make a banner to celebrate it!  What else are banners for [besides being adorbs of course]?

The first step was to figure out which of all the papers in my stash were fair enough for a spring banner. I decided that the Printed Posies stack's papers were fairest of them all. Then I fired up the electronic cutter! I cut out all the banner pieces, the wording, and all the other banner elements. I then used the dies listed and my Cut N' Boss to cut out all the extra somethings for this banner.

Next I did some shading with my beloved eBrush using my Sharpie markers! Such a nice finishing touch!  That's one reason it is one of my most fave tools! Love it, so much! I shaded the banner pieces, the letters, and even the little extras.

Once all of that was done, I needed to put all my pieces together. Using double sided tape I placed the banner pieces over the scalloped backing pieces. I then took my letters and placed them upon the white shadow, using the tacky glue to keep it all together. Once the letters were dried, I tacky glued them to the banner pieces.

Using my Crop-A-Dile , I punched holes near the corners of each banner piece, to thread my ribbon through once the banner is ready to be hung. I strung my banner pieces on my ribbon. Once I was happy with how it looked, and it was hung.

It was then time to do the extra. Between each banner piece I took a piece of ribbon looping it around I set it in place by stapling the heart and ribbon together with my Tiny Attacher by Tim Holtz. Then to hide the staples I tacky-glued my paper bow ties over them.

I am pretty pleased with how it turned out! Hopefully you who view this are too! I am also super hyped for spring to be here already! [Come on Spring!! LOL] It is my hope in some way you were inspired! Wishing everyone a happy Spring!!