A little book

When we were on our mini retreat I found this lovely set of two papier mache boxes in the shape of books. I thought one would make a great alternative to a birthday card for my OH who is absolutely addicted to books.

I wasn't sure how to colour the box at first, I had planned to paint it, but found that Distress Inks in my favourite Vintage Photo gave it a great faux leather look with very little effort. I added a gold embossed image from the Inkadinkado Utopiary set, to try and make it look like a tooled leather cover. Then I added some of my favourite metal corners.

I added some gold rubbing paste on the spine and edged the box with some gold paper I had marked with the finest embossing tool I had to make it look like pages.

I lined the box with a 6 x 6 Webster's Pages paper that I thought looked like a book end paper design and added a greeting - this is one of my favourite Elusive Images designs, I love art nouveau and use it a lot, plus a little calender from the new Tim Holtz Lost and Found pad. I added the greeting on another tag later. I would normally decorate the inside of the box with many more bits and pieces, but my OH is not one for lots of fussy detail, so that didn't seem appropriate this time.

I think it looks a little ragged round the edges, but maybe that is OK for an old book!!

Thanks for popping by and I hope you are having a good weekend.

Elaine xx