Autumn trees

I am still in the process of tidying up my craft room (lifelong project I think!) but I wanted something in which to store my copic refills (I only have a couple to date as I've only had my copics 18 months and only needed to refill E00 and Blender so far) but instead of just bunging them in a box, I decide to be more creative, recycle something and make into something altogether more beautiful.

I started with an empty cardboard biscuit tin I saved from last Christmas, and cut into two pieces - it has a fixed metal bottom so will be strong enough for the copic bottles.  To decorate it, I was inspired by the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge this week, and by the card designed by Chrissie Stokes in this months Craft Stamper magazine to do something Autumnal so used my (current) favourite WM stamp set, Tiny Trees, combined with DP in hues to match Chrissie's clever inking (I'm not that brave with ink!)

First I covered the whole of the tube with a kraft paper base, measured gaps for the double mounted strips of paper and stuck them around the tube with strong adhesive tape.  I stamped the tree branches directly onto the dp on the tube, and stamped the tree shapes in blended inks onto kraft cardstock.  I added the branches over the top again and added a few leaves and cut the trees out and edged each one with gold ink.  I finished it off with a few fallen leaves using the same ink colours from the trees to pull it all together.

I am also entering this project into the following challenges:

Secret Saturday Challenge  Autumn Colours
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge   Anything Goes - The Sky's The Limit

I still have the other half of the tube, so I may do another in Winter colours to store something else!


Don't forget - we have a fabulous set of Waltzingmouse stamps as our prize this month over on our charity card making challenge blog in aid of St Luke's Hospice - so if you want to get your hands on some new stamps, check us out here http://stlukescharitycardschallenge.blogspot.com/

Catch you later
Craftilicious x