Thursday, March 5, 2009

Memory Keeper box for my Cards


This week's color inspiration challenge is gorgeous!! I love brown and pink. Tonight I made this box for my cards using 2 challenge prompts. The first one of course is the color inspiration challenge and the second prompt I utilized is from The Creative Type blog. This week's prompt left me in stitches! The goal is to use stitching for the lettering on our creation. For the first time, I hand-stitched the lettering on my title. This totally reminded me of Jr. High home economics class.

One of the projects we had to do was make a pillow with hand embroidered names on the front. I got really into embroidery floss and hand stitching. My mom still has the pillow and it has names of my Jr. High classmates, some are first names, some are last names and some are nicknames. I don't even remember who the nicknames are or why they had that nickname...but it is lovingly stitched on the pillow.

I remember getting together with a friend to sew one Saturday afternoon. I threaded the big embroidery needle and realized that I forgot something like scissors. I was sitting on the bed with a friend and I set the pillow down and stuck the needle in the mattress and ran to get the scissors. When I came back I hopped back up on the bed and the eye of the needle went straight into my knee!!! I freaked out! The thread was sticking out and so was the pointy end of the needle. I sent my friend to get my dad. He came in with pliers and carefully pulled it out. I don't remember it being sore or hurting all that much, but it was pretty tramatic...I was in jr. high so every thing was so much more dramatic.

Needless to say, I took shop in high school and steered clear of home ec. Haha....shop is way more dangerous than sewing, but I had had enough! Now I wish I knew how to sew, I haven't threaded a sewing machine since jr. high, but I have used some major power tools so I guess that is a plus...

Anyway, I had fun stitching the letters and I did quite a bit of painting on this box. I mixed brown paint to make all of the elements coordinate. I really like how it turned out...even my husband said "WOW" when he saw me putting the finishing touches on it. Hope you enjoy!!






Supplies used: CTMH unless otherwise noted.
Chipboard 'a' Basic Grey
Chipboard leaf and shape Basic Grey
White screen print overlay, Hambly

10 comments:

Sarah said...

Wow is right. It is gorgeous!
I remember stepping on a pin cushion when I was in high school...and the flat heads and not the points all popped into my foot....I know what you mean about trauma! OUCH

Lisa Stenz said...

This is sooo cute! I love these boxes and have made a ton of them myself. I was laughing when I read that you took shop instead of Home Ec. because I did the same thing. I would much rather work in the garage than in the kitchen!! LOL! Thanks for your great inspiration! *Ü*

Sherri said...

It's gorgeous! One of my favourites this week!

Giò said...

BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT!!! IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES THIS WEEK TOO!! KISS :)

Unknown said...

Wow! this is just fabulous! Great job!

Winter said...

This is so cute! Love the stiching!

Unknown said...

WOW-how pretty is this-thanks for linking to The Creative Type!!

Shaina Longstreet said...

awesome job!! love the stitching.
thanks so much for playing along with us over at THe CrEatiVe TyPe!!

Unknown said...

Awesome! This is such a pretty project...I LOVE the colors too!

Stephanie Baxter said...

What a fun idea! Thanks for playing!