Happy Friday….
WOW this has been a long stressful week and I’m glad to see it come to an end. Looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend….We’re going to start decorating the outside of the house tomorrow for Christmas. Ethan is extremely excited, he’s been talking about it for days.
On to today’s project.
Ethan’s piggy bank was this pig that he was given many many years ago…it’s sorta baby, so I made him a treasure box to keep the money in he’s saving to buy something…
I have to give my hubby some credit on this project. I got as far as painting, covering and putting the metal letters on the box, then I got stuck. Scott came up with the rope idea, the lock, and coins hung on the side.
I must be rubbing off on him…
First I took a paper mache treasure box and painted it brown, then white washed it with some watered down white paint. Then I look some Basic Grey Marjolaine paper measured and trimmed the sections to fit. I sewed along the edges of each section and then used walnut stain distress ink to edge the pattern paper. Once I had the paper sections glued down with mod podge, I started embellishing the box. I wanted to keep it simple and not too little boyish…Added the metal Ethan letters, a Tim Holtz lock and corners. Then added the rope and Tim Holtz coins on the sides.
Time for work. Have a great Friday…
