Christmas Composition Box by Gloria

Good morning! It's Gloria with you today! I am sharing my FIRST EVER configuration/composition box! I have created trays and shadow boxes before, but this is my first compo box!

I used the Composition Box - 25, which is 9 1/4" x 6 3/4". The kit comes with three smaller boxes which fit inside the main box, plus a key and the number "25." I created a Christmas scene with lots of bits and bobs from my stash!

As you can see, the box pieces are all notched for easy assembly! I started out by wiping each piece with a baby wipe to remove any dust. I then painted the edges with white acrylic paint.

I painted the "25" and the key with Ranger Gold ink to give the pieces an aged appearance. I painted the metal feet with white paint and then dabbed them with the gold ink. (Please forgive my messy craft mat! I was in a hurry and forgot to use a white background!)

I labeled each box piece with the size of paper I needed, just to save time with measuring. I sponged all the paper edges with Frayed Burlap Distress  Ink.

All the paper is attached to the box with a multi medium. I simply "painted" the paper with the medium and attached it to the box pieces BEFORE assembly. 

I used Ranger Glossy Accents to assemble the boxes, and to attach the small boxes, the metal feet, and the tree to the large box. The boxes are very sturdy and fit together beautifully. Those of you who know me, understand that I do not care for 3-D projects because they are often a pain to put together. I am here to tell you, that THIS project went together so quickly and easily! I was stunned! 

I made sure to cover the back of the box as well. I had thought to use washi tape to cover the edges, but decided I liked the white box showing through, almost as if it was an old crate! 

I covered the sides of the box with contrasting paper. Each small box is covered with coordinating paper as well. 

Once I had the boxes assembled, it was time to decorate! I used some snowflakes from the Snowflake Shape Set to add accents to the top corners of the large box. I sprayed the large snowflakes with gold mist and the smaller snowflakes with silver. I added a gem for extra sparkle!

I went through my holiday hoard, looking for fun embellishments to use for my project. This was a great way to use leftover bits of this and that! Each item is glued to the box with either Glossy Accents or hot glue. I filled some glass bottles with glitter and tiny bells to give some Christmas glitz to the box!

I sprayed the tree with mist and then added some splatters of white paint prior to adding the gems. I sprayed "Joy" from the Words and Phrases I Set with mist and glued it to the tree. 

 I created lots of little vignettes to give the boxes interest and texture. I tried to make everything gold, silver, or white, along with the traditional Christmas colors of red and green.

I hope that you enjoyed my project today! I cannot wait to display this on a table in my living room! 

~ Gloria Stengel: Scraps of Life

Gina's Designs Laser Cut Chipboard:

Composition Box - 25

Snowflake Shape Set

Words and Phrases I Set 

Other Products:

Paint:Plaid Folk Art Wicker White, Ranger Adirondack Mixatives Gold 

Ink: Ranger Distress Frayed Burlap

Multi medium: Liquitex

Glimmer mist: Tattered Angels Gold, Tattered Angels Chalkboard Chalk, Deco Art Shimmer White, Lindy's Stamp Gang Cape Cod Coral, Twinkling Tinsel, Frozen Jack Frost

Paper: Graphic 45 A Christmas Carol, Twelve Days of Christmas, Nutcracker Sweet, Christmas Past

Metal feet, charm, star, large tree, glass bottles, flash card: Tim Holtz

Small tree: hobby shop

Metal hook, mini clothes pin: Canvas Corp

Floral: Petaloo, Wild Orchid Crafts, misc. floral sprays

Gems, bells, ornaments, clips, dove: stash

Glitter: German Glass Glitter

Adhesive: Ranger Glossy Accents, hot glue

Tea Composition Box by Dianna

Hi everyone! This was my first shabby styled project and also was my mother's day gift to my mom. We both love tea so I made her something that matched her new bedroom colors and her love of tea.

I painted Gina's Designs Composition Box white and then used a light beige to create a white washed look (which you cannot see but is there).  I used Graphic 45 Botanical Tea paper and fussy cut the birds, teapot and rose.  I tore the teal paper and distressed it for the background.  Then I used a teal spritz on Gina's Designs Cardstock Doily. 

The bottom box has a lace back and an Art Deco brooch with a black ribbon bow.  I stamped a Victorian lady stamp and left it black and white except for the hat and dress which I colored with Copic markers. 

The second box's back was papered with Graphic 45 Botanical Tea and the humming birds. The butterfly is from Gina's Designs and I used Sparkling H20's. The key was painted white then silver to create a marbled effect. The yellow rose is from Graphic 45 and the embossed cut outs were distressed with ink.  I used a row of seed pearls on the edge of the embossed cut out. The third box has 1/2 of a Gina's Designs Cardstock Doily lightly distressed. The teal button is one of two used in the box. The tea cup and spoon is from Gina's and were painted white then chalk ink was applied. The flower stamp is from Graphic 45. The flowers were white and spritzed with teal paint, allowed to dry then spritzed again with a silver mist. The little frame is actually a ball label holder that I got on clearance. The frame was a bright gold so I lightly painted white then went over it with a silver sharpie. I put black velvet ribbon behind it and used buttons from my stash. 

Below is a Composition Box that I did for Halloween 2014.  I wanted to show how different the Composition Box looks with different ideas.  

Thank you for looking :)

Gina's Designs Items Used

Composition Box

Tea Time Shape and Border Set

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Butterflies and Dragonflies

Spring Composition Box

Hello everyone. I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.  I (Shanna) am excited to help give you a little more Spring inspiration. I created a Spring Composition Box.
I decided to go with some Graphic 45 papers that screamed SPRING to me.

Then I painted the my little boxes with a dark gray acrylic paint. Then I covered it with a crackle medium and went over the top of that with an ivory acrylic.

Then decided to go full force with yellow embossing powder to cover the word Spring. I also used silver glitter on the box behind Spring. I think the sparkle in the back really helps the world pop even more.

The key I gave several layers of Distress Paints to make it look it patina style.

This box got a coat of Drab Art Anthology on the back wall. I popped out these adorable girls and laid some moss and flowers down.

This box is just plain with moss and a birdhouse. I even gave it a title of birdhouse.

I love the waterman too this was a bit fun to play with. I coated the can and then scraped some of the paint off to give it lines. I then added some extra ink and some crackle accents for some extra oomph.

The last piece I added was the flower planter. I added layers of Rusty Hinge and Walnut Stain to the planter part. Then I added Shamrock Art Anthology paint to the stems and leaves. Lastly I used more Distress Paints on the flowers and then a coat of crackle accents.

I added more flowers from Prima and Petaloo to the bottom on top of the moss. I thought it finished off the look. Thank you so much for stopping by. Remember keep coming by for more inspiration from the rest of the team. 

Items Used:

Composition Box

Spring Shape Set

Oceans Composition Box

Hello everyone. Shanna here today to share a new product. I altered a Composition Box from the store. This was so much fun to alter. Lately you have been seeing these if you have been stopping by. If not go back through previous post and check out these amazing creations that have been shared.

First I started out by painting all my edges. Then layered everything with paper. I had so much fun altering the chipboard shapes with gesso and Tim Holtz paints.

I am in love with coloring the seahorses. 

I had to add a message in the bottle. Although no message I added a little sand in.

I did also create some sand to add underneath the shells which was a fun mess but seashells have to lay somewhere right! 

Hope you are inspired grab your Composition Box and create.

Items Used:

Composition Box

Sea Horse Shape Set

Beach Shape Set

Memo Board by Kathi and Composition Box by Melissa

Hello Friends!  Today we have two projects to share, first is another of our August cross promotional projects with Kitty's Scrap Post, and then we're also sharing another version of our Composition Box.

First up today is Kathi who has done an amazing job of combining the paper kit with our chipboard shapes.


Welcome, and thanks for joining me today.  I have decorated one of our memo boards using the French Seamstress digital paper kit from Kitty's Scrap Post along with the vintage seamstress shape set from Gina's Designs.

Full View

I covered the dressforms with the French Seamstress paper, added antique buttons to one 

of the spools, then added the spools to the pocket envelope.  I added a metal sewing 

machine to the shelf, and spools of thread, then embellished with  flowers.

I added a decorative dress form to the shelf. and also cut the wire dress form out of the paper 

line & placed it behind the pincushion by cutting around the pincushion & inserting it. 

Lace & trim was added to the top & bottom of the memo board. 

Two bottle caps were placed above the dressforms.

Supplies Used:

Gina's Designs Lasercuts:

Memo Board

Vintage Seamstress Shape Set

Printable Design Papers by:

Kitty's Scrap Post

French Seamstress Kit

Next up is Melissa with her take on our Composition Box.  Melissa chose the number "25" and created a gorgeous Home Decor item to enjoy this Holiday season.

Hi everyone! Melissa here with my version of our composition box.  This heavy chipboard kit comes with 3 smaller boxes to assemble and place within (or on top of) the large box, a wooden key, and a number of your choice.  Create your own project in any theme you'd like, or choose a number to correlate with a special year or a special day.  Anything goes!  

To get the shiny gold effect I wanted on the key, I prepped it with gesso, then applied texture paste.  I then painted on some rub n buff, and some Pilot gold ink.  I also rubbed on some gold mica powder, applied glossy accents, then finished it off with some gold leaf in some areas.

Thanks for looking!

Gina's Designs products used:

Composition Box

Other:

Paper by K and Company

Flowers by Prima and Petaloo

Stickers by Jolee's

Composition Boxes by Deann and Dianna with Kitty's Scrap Post

Hi Crafty Friends!   Lots of fun to share today.  We have two team members on the blog, both sharing our August Composition Boxes, both members chose a Halloween theme, and both members used the O' Halloween digital scrap papers from Kitty's Scrap Post.  Let's see how different they are!  First up is Deann.


Good morning, Deann here with an awesome Halloween project..

I used the Composition Box and Halloween paper from Kitty's Scrap Post. 

 This is the Composition Box, I chose the 31 to use with the O'Halloween Paper Set from KSP.

I used the Gothic Chandeliers, I decided to cut it in half and paint it black with white high lights 

For the box with the 31 in it, I decided to add a picket fence.I inked the edges with Black soot distress ink.

Bonus Project :)
More of the Halloween KSP Paper

I love all of the tags that come with the Halloween paper so I did another project to use them up.
Its a double pocket made out of orange cardstock.

Next up is Dianna with her version of our Composition Box.

Hello Dianna here, for my take on Gina's Designs Composition Box and cross-promotion with Kitty's Scrap Post.  I used mine to pay tribute to one of my favorite holidays Halloween. All the paper used is from Kitty's Scrap Post's O'Halloween.  I painted the composition box, interior boxes, witch, sign post and the thirty-one with black gesso.

The witch was from Gina's Designs Vintage Ladies Silhouettes Set.  I printed the O'Halloween from Kitty's Scrap Post and misted the back of the paper with water, this allowed the paper to be easily folded. To get an even blending of the skirt and bustle I used some scrap ribbon.  The witches hat was an old die cut. The moon is from Kitty's Scrap Post O'Halloween glued on a circle from Gina's Designs Spooky Shape Set to give it dimension and inked with Tim Holtz's Distress Ink Black Soot and spritzed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Gold.  The moon was glued onto Gina's Designs Cardstock Doily Set Steampunk.

The Standing Sign was cut from Kitty's Scrap Post O'Halloween and inked with Tim Holtz's Distress Ink Black Soot.  The sign post was spritzed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Pearl.  The Gina's Designs number 31 was glittered with Stickles - Star Dust. The large paper spider web was made with Kitty's Scrap Post O'Halloween and cut from QuicKutz WEB die and spritzed with Tattered Angel Glimmer Mist Pearl.

The top box picture was cut out from Kitty's Scrap Post O'Halloween and the bottom of the picture was cut out to give dimension.  The lady's dress was dotted with Stickles-Platinum and the pumpkin man was outlined with Glossy Accents.  Behind the top box I used three of the Cardstock Doily Set Intricates from Gina's Designs and spritzed two of them with Maya Mist in Lemon Metallic (which is actually an orange color) and one was inked with Tim Hotz Distressed Ink - Black Soot. Around the Cardstock Doily Set Intricates  I used two of the bats from Gina's Designs Spooky Shape Set. The middle box picture was cut out from Kitty's Scrap Post O'Halloween and spritzed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Gold. 

The last box has a key from Gina's Designs Wooden Decorative Keys protected by a Sleeping Dragon Baris stamp from Crackerbox Palace.  The fence was cut down from a larger fence from Gina's Designs Beach Shape Set and painted with black gesso. The spider webs from Gina's Designs Spiderweb Shape Set was inked with Tim Holtz Distressed Ink Black Soot and spritzed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Pearl. The Spiders are from Michaels.

Items Used

Gina's Designs

Composition Box

Vintage Ladies Silhouettes Set

Spooky Shape Set

Cardstock Doily Set Steampunk

Standing Sign

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Wooden Decorative Keys

Beach Shape Set

Spiderweb Shape Set

Kitty's Scrap Post

OHalloween

Other Items Used

Crackerbox Palace Stamp

Sleeping Dragon Baris

Compostion Box by Mary

Hello everyone, Mary here.  I hope all is well. I know that many of you are busy with school starting again. I don't think it has sunk in that I will not have to crack the books this semester!

Today I have one of Gina's composition boxes. These boxes come with the large box, the three smaller boxes, a wooden key and the chipboard numbers. Currently it shows the number 25 in the store, but you can order any two numbers you want. As of this post, you will need to leave Gina a message as to which numbers you would like.

The inspiration I used was my trip to Ireland in 2006. We were there for two wonderful weeks.

 

 All the inner boxes had the outer edges first inked and then I applied some paint in spots. I love how it looks worn.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today! I hope you have a great day!

Gina's Designs Products

Composition Box

Words & Phrases 1

Other Products

Paper: Antiquity

Paint: Americana - Burnt Umber

Glitter Glue: Studio G - Brown

Embossing Powder: Stash

Metal Charm: Stash

House: from Ireland

Tim Holtz: Distress Ink - Walnut Stain

Bling: Me & My Big Ideas

Stickers: Stash