Step by Step by Emma-Jo
Hello everyone, it’s Emma-Jo here. I’m sharing with you a make made using Sizzix dies today. It’s called the Water Lily Pillow Box. I hope you enjoy. 💙
- Take 2 pieces of A5 Multifarious card.
2. Add some Acrylic Sprays – Periwinkle, Teal and Sun Yellow and fill in any gaps with Mystical Mica Spray Spring Moss. Use a heat tool to dry.
3. Once the card is dry, cut the card with the Sizzix Die set (Thinlits 666568 ) for a Vault Pillow Box and Bag. You will need to cut two pieces using the largest die.
4. Once they have been cut, score along the lines and encourage the folds.
5. Using the Lavinia Ambience stencil apply Cosmic Shimmer Gilding polish Lime burst to one end of the box. See the picture for placement.
6. Attach some double-sided sticky tape to the straight edges and stick the box together.
7. Apply some wiggly lines to the centre of the top of the box using a needle tipped bottle full of Pink Dinkles and Iridescent Violet Mica Minerals. Add some dots around the wiggly lines using a needle tipped bottle full of Yellow Dinkles and Metallic Bronze Mica Minerals. To add Mica Minerals to Dinkles dip the end of a watercolour paintbrush into the Mica Minerals and add to the pre-mixed bottle of Dinkles. Repeat this process around four times until there is enough Mica minerals in the mix.
8. Around some of the Yellow Dinkles dots add circles of Yellow Posca Pen.
9. Stamp the Mini Fairy Lantern LAV588 eleven times in Versafine Clair Nocturne. Cut them out leaving a triangle shape of card around the stalk. Colour with Kuretake Clean Colour Real Brush Pens Pink making sure that six are a darker pink and five are a paler pink. On the five paler pink ones add a touch of yellow. For the six darker ones add a touch of the pink Dinkles.
10. On the plain side of the Fairy Lanterns score the six darker petals on the back with a cross – see picture for placement. Cut along the score at the pointed end. Cut a small piece of double side sticky tape and attach to one side of the cut. Fold one of the cut ends over the end with the sticky tape as in the picture. This will create a base.
11. Colour the other side of the 6 darker Fairy Lanterns – two in a Kuretake Clean Colour Real Brush pen dark yellow and four in a pink. Stick the two Fairy Lanterns with the yellow reverse together as in the picture.
12. Cut a piece of multifarious card to 4cm x 3cm. Apply Bippity Boppity Glue to one side in a circle.
13. Stick the five paler Fairy Lanterns onto the card in a circle. See the picture for placement.
14. Add more Bippity Boppity Glue and bend the four Fairy Lanterns with a pale pink on the reverse, along the scored lines. Stick them so they are standing up in a circle. See picture for placement.
15. Now add more glue in the centre and add the two fairy lanterns that have yellow on the reverse. Glue them into the centre of the flower.
16. Take a green piece of yarn, I’ve used a piece from the Terracotta Crafting Yarn. Apply some Bippity Boppity Glue on the top of the Pillow Box over the pale green stencil. Stick the piece of yarn onto the box by winding it into a circle, leaving the centre open.
17. Fill the centre of the yarn circle with Bippity Boppity Glue. Press the Flower onto the glue by applying pressure from within the box.
18. Add dots of Stickles Golden Rod to the green Yarn the top of the box. Add to the centre of the flower and the edges of the centre petals. Apply Elements ink Confetti to the edges of the Fairy Lantern Flower.
19. Cut four Flower stamens in half and make them short enough to peek over the top of the flower. Colour with Elements Ink Sahara and add to the centre of the flower using Bippity Boppity glue. You may have to keep adjusting these until the glue is set enough to hold them upwards. Using Elements ink Graphite and a size 7 Stencil Brush blend over the box edges and folds. Finally add highlights to the Pink Dinkles wiggly lines with a white Posca pen.
There you have it my friends – the finished Water Lily Pillow box! I hope you have enjoyed the tutorial. If you have any questions, please ask and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as I can. Have fun crafting! Emma-Jo. 🧚♀️💙👓X
