...a wee tower

This was the first of the two Tower boxes I made - this one I kept for my January GSS submission over at PapertreyInk .

I love the Silent Night stamp set and I had this image in my head of some sort of Middle eastern Tower, with fretwork windows. This was what came out.

It is actually a Christmas gift box first and foremost, meant for a wee Russian doll. I often think, though, that it's a shame to have to throw these things away after the event and so I gave it double purpose by making it turn into a luminary - ONLY FOR USE WITH BATTERY TEA LIGHTS THO'.

The pale gold insert pulls out so that you can pop a wee battery tea light in and put the lid back on and put it on the mantlepiece or similar.

I made a wee shrink plastic tag to entwine into the decorative cord - which is really only old ribbon plaited with two or three strands of co-ordinating wool, but I think my favourite bit is the roof - I ran the card through a cuttlebug folder before making up the rof, then I rubbed it in versamark and dipped it into the fine gold embssing powder that Papertrey recently started carrying - Wow - I love how it melts and actally looks like aged gold!!

I am planning on having a post up soon showing how to make these boxes and if I get time I'll do a template for the roof, but It might be a week or so as we've had a really insidious little flu bug, and I'm not quite done with it yet.



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