Altered Tissue Box and Leaf tutorial #crafts #diyprojects #homerenovacion #remodeling #homeimprovement #renovation #diy @verefazer

Paper Flowers

Hi friends Thank you so much for the heart warming comments on my Diamond Paper Decoration Tutorial. I had this un glamorous  tissue box lying around my house and decided to cut up some pretty floral pattern paper to alter it

Altered Tissue Box

Punched the pattern paper with a Martha Stewart Lattic heart and added pearls, tiny plastic flowers and pearly leaves on the front of the altered box.

Altered Tissue Box

Made a stick pin with a shell shaped bead ,pearls and a metallic star shaped bead.Added a metal framed charm sentiment "bloom" to my paper flower!

Paper Flowers

Added a pearly border to a lattice heart border I punched on a pink polka dotted pattern paper .Added my favorite acrylic white butterflies to flutter by on my altered tissue box

Paper Flowers

I have an obsession with leaves- Not only do I handcut my leaves, I cant resist buying leaf punches and now that I have a die cutting machine I cant resist leaf dies!!
Sharing a mini tutorial to make a leafy branch
On Pinterest I realized that sometimes even the simplest of pictorials are pinned! My mini leaf tutorial on this Recycled CD Box was so simple but its actually been pinned quite a bit!
So sharing a 8 simple paper-crafting tips especially for newbie paper crafters to add a bit of that extra jazz to your leaves be they hand-cut, die cut or punched .

Paper blooms

• 1.Cut out your leaves from pattern paper! -I punched out these leaves from a swirly pattern paper.

Punchcraft leaves tutorial

To get your punched leaves to point to either side punch out  some leaves on the reverse of the pattern paper!

• 2.Make your leaves stand out by inking your leaf edges using a stamp pad and sponge

Punchcraft tutorial

The pic shows a Faber castell ink-pad[available in India] and my daughter's blackboard duster sponge which I used to apply the ink to the edges of the leaf!

Punchcraft leaf tutorial

• 4.Double shade your leaves with 2 shades of green

Punchcraft tutorial

• 5.Crease your leaves for a 3 D look- In this leafy bunch I just folded the leaves in half and didnt use any other tool

Punchcraft tutorial

• 6.Draw veins with a green/silver/gold gel pen- your leaves will literally shimmer!

Punchcraft tutorial

• 7.Make a branch by sticking your leaves on a piece of sturdy green card stock.

Punch craft leaf tutorial

• 8.Add dew drops on the leaves and paper roses using glossy accents[More examples here:Aperture card tutorial]

  

  Paper flowers

Now back to my altered tissue box,It has 3 compartments on the front and I lined the inside of these little compartments with the same floral paper too.

Altered Tissue box

At times projects look more glamorous in their photographs but I wasnt so lucky with this one and for the life of me I couldnt capture the true beauty of this altered box on camera!!

Supplies: Pattern Paper:DCWV Itsy Bitsy,Dies: Cheery Lynn Flourish,Marianne Leaves,Itsy Bitsy Spiral daisy,Punches: Jef leaf,MS lattice heart

Edited: this project got a honorable mention at Crafters Corner
and also at Lulupu