Bloggers Challenge-Alter It

The Bloggers Challenge this week is to ‘Alter It’. I decided to make a sewing kit for my daughter. 


  Have you ever been somewhere and had a button pop off or a strap of a dress ‘pop’…..yikes…  I have- so I always carry a needle and thread of some type… ( My children are all required to know how to sew on a button prior to leaving for college). 
   I traced around the lid of the tin and made a template for the Basic Grey DSP. Then I stamped and colored in the House Mouse image and colored it with Copic Markers and Creative Inspirations (CI) Paint on the spool of thread.  I painted a Prima flower with CI paint, and then decided to add a little ric rac painted with CI paint as well.  The purple strip in the background is called faux velvet, and it is done with CI paint and is a Technique Junkies technique. I added purple ribbon around the ‘rim’ of the tin to finish it off.  Add a piece of adhesive backed magnetic strip, and needles and pins will stay in place in your sewing kit-on the lid- you can make it as short or long as you please.  If you are traveling, put a fingernail clipper in the kit to cut your thread if needed, and airport security will not take your scissors away……….
To view other projects click here-  Bloggers Challenge –to see more ‘Altered Items’.
A few other Challenges for this project:
Our Creative Corner-Buttons
Flourishes-Bought it-use it!  (Stamp and ric rac!)
Cute Card Thursday-Mono Mania
Craft Challenge-Buttons
Practical Scrappers-Markers
One Stitch at a Time-anything goes
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!
Shelly