♥ A {Vintage} Teacher's Treasure Box ♥

I love to alter and decorate boxes to give as gifts. And when I saw Betsy Veldman's "Vintage Findings" challenge and Flourishes "The Beauty of a Gift" challenge, I decided to make some vintage style boxes for my son's Pre-School teachers.

I purchased the chalkboard topped boxes at Michael's and decorated them with some vintage alphabet and school papers, wooden school elements, an old ruler, ribbons, mini clipboard and a piece of chalk, which I hot glued to the top. I also used some Melissa Frances rub-ons as well as a button. I painted the top of the box white and then inked it brown and blue for an aged look. Before giving them to his teachers, I filled them with candy. His teachers loved them!

I hope you all have a safe and Happy Halloween!! Have FUN!

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♥ Sweetie Pie ♥ {A Shabby CASE!}

This week's FUN challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room is to make a card inspired by one of the fabulous DT's cards. I could be inspired by all of their work! But I chose 2 of them for my card. I first chose an adorable card made by Cathy Clark-Santie, which inspired the color scheme for my card. And the 2nd person I chose to CASE was a gorgeous card made by Clare Buswell. I decided to use the same design as her card. You can see all the cards HERE at this post.

For my card, I used the adorable Melissa Frances vintage papers and cut out from her Kitschy Kitchen line, as well as a MF rub-on. I also used some of Debbie's gorgeous seam binding ribbon, crocheted ribbon, bakers twine, crystal swirl and I made a mini rolling pin out of a mini spool, ribbon and pearls.

I also used Betsy's Something Vintage challenge and the Paper Take Weekly challenge, Sparkly and Bright.

Well, I am off to our son's school. Today is his Halloween party. They will be going trick or treating to each classroom. He is so excited! And of course, he is Thomas the Train! I will post pics later!

Enjoy your day!

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