TAKING THE OLD AND MAKING IT NEW

Good morning all, yesterday I talked a little bit about what I wanted to do for the new year. Today I would like to add to that. As far as my life goes, I want to come off of my BP meds and to do that I will have to drop a few pounds and that means more exercise. I plan to make that the main priority of the year. So, yesterday I started the year off right with a 30 minute walk at the health club. I will be on my way back in a few hours for some weight workout.

As far as my craft goes, I want to branch out and be more adventurous. I tend to take the easy and simple way most of the time. I have never tried an easel card that is on my list. I saw a frame card on Jacque's blog for a new challenge, I plan to try that also.

I also plan to try some Altered projects, take something old and make it new. Which is what I have done with this project. It is something that Gina K recently did on Stamp TV, she took an empty square tissue box and made a beautiful box to hold cards. It could actually be used to hold anything you wanted. I decided that I needed something to hold my Prismacolor pencils and glitter pens and gel pens. My work space was becoming just to crowded with containers and I am trying to be more organized. My box is not as pretty but it is definitly functional. Well here it is:

Well this is what I started with, after it was empty.

The whole box was upholstered inside and out and is very sturdy.

As you can see I did not use a lot of embellisments, but I had to use a Tilda.

And yes she was colored with Copics.

There was one small thing about the measurements for this box... Gina used a Kleenex brand tissue box, I used a Walmart brand tissue box. Walmart's tissue box is a bit smaller that the Kleenex brand. So I had to adjust the measurements.

 

There is one more thing that I can think of that I want to get better with and that is my Prismacolor pencils and OSM. I have only used them once and I need to justify buying so many of them. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

I have been using Magnolia images that were stamped an given to me as a gift in a goodie bag and now finally I am working on an order at the Magnolia-licious store to buy an assortment of new stamps to add to the 4 that I did buy at the scrapbook store near me. I love the fact that you can start an order, log out and go back later and the items are still in your cart. How cool is that. Diana, look for me to be back soon to finish my order.