Wednesday 21 September 2011

Jewellery Box Mini and a little Competition

I've been seeing quite a bit of chatter of forums about people making mini books for 18 year olds and I realised that I hadn't actually seen alot of projects aimed at teenagers, especially girls. I saw this as a challenge and decided to create something that would be suitable.

I created a jewellery box with a mini book inside. I used the gorgeous Bo Bunny Garden Girl collection for this. Here's a few pics.

This is the outside of the box.

Inside the box with minibook
A sample of one of the pages.

Once this was finished I decided to do a masculine version. I did it in the style of a poker table and it is this version that I demonstrate on my videos below. The box is so versatile that it can be turned into anything; a school desk for students or a writing table for the literary aficionado. The possibilities are endless.

I am a complete novice and actually demonstrating making something on video. I was really terrified because it's a one take job - you can't undo what you've done if the video goes wrong, so I apologise in advance if the camera work isn't all that nifty or for any other recording errors. I had to do it in three parts because it took longer than anticipated.
First a few pictures of the poker table. As above the pics are of the outside of the box, the inside and a sample of one of the minibook pages.




For some reason the last picture insists on displaying the wrong way and I don't know how to fix it.
The mini book in this version is from Laura Denison's Envelope Pocket Mini Album. Here is her youtube video.



Here are the videos. The videos are a demonstration of how I made the box rather than what one would call a class. I did a lot of preparation in advance so as to keep the videos short ... well... shortish.







The written instructions are below. They show pictures of the girls version and the instructions on how to make the mini book inside the box are also included:

Jewellery Box


Now for the Competition

Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win the Jewellery Box together with the mini book. I will pick a comment at random on 01 October 2011 and send the box to the winner. Make sure to check back here on 02 October to see if you have won!!

7 comments:

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  2. Lovely pink box and I like the masculine version too. Fab present idea. Will watch the video when I have a bit more time. Thanks

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  3. Great boxes Judith and I love your nails too!! have a great weekend
    Lisa
    xx

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  4. Really super Judith - I especially love the male one and has given me some ideas for the mini books I need to make for two of my nephews who will be 18 next year.

    Thanks for the inspiration.

    Karen x

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  5. what a great project. I thought the box was bought until I saw the instructions! lol

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  6. Super project....love them both!!! Video was good too!!! I like doing mini albums so these have given me more inspiration!! Thank you!!
    Jackie x

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