Apothecary cabinet

Artfully Musing has a giveaway where you can submit a pix of an apothecary cabinet you have made for a chance to win some of her amazing works.  Here's what I did.

I started with this weird country looking house thing.  And painted it black.

I also tore off some of the trim.
Then I made it into this:

I used a bunch of different papers and some photos and little bottles.  It's very spooky now!!

Steam trinket box

A friend got this plain little wooden box at a scrapbook garage sale.  She doesn't scrap at all and she wanted a steampunk trinket box for some of her steampunk jewelry.  This is what I came up with.

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Halloween Altered Box!

The Halloween spirit has hit me!  I spent yesterday on an altered box I got at Goodwill for $3.  I found a cool skeleton hand at Michael's, and used one of those little black frames from the $1 bin.  I'd gotten the Martha Steward Halloween pad for $4 and added a couple more embellishments I had lying around.  I really like the way this one turned out.

There's black lace around the edge to give it some vintage flair!

I added the cheesecloth in the fashion made popular by some great scrappers before me :)

I printed out a skeletal figure from the internet to add inside the frame.

Inside I just did a simple embellishment and lined the bottom with that green stripe and added a small resin pile of skulls.

All Hail the Queen

In honor of the London Olympics here's a Queen Victoria box!

Went a bit mental and made several little steampunk boxes.

Steampunk box and Sherlock Holmes - BBC Version

I made a few things last weekend.  I had this cute little cedar box and wanted to make it into a steampunk trinket holder.  I also made a Sherlock shadow box based on the BBC version.