Saturday Showcase - Eileen Hull Designs Treasure Box and Molten Dimension Embossing Powders

Hi everyone and welcome to another Saturday Showcase, the Design Team's chance to share tutorials and products available from The Funkie Junkie Boutique with you and kick start your creative weekend. Today's project ties in with the current challenge theme 'Treats Not Tricks!'; I've created a gift box using Eileen Hull's 'Treasure Box' Die from Sizzix with her Molten Dimensions Embossing Powders from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies.

Here's how the box came together; after die cutting the two lids from white matboard I went on to cut four lid sides to make a box that's thinner than the regular sized Treasure Box. These pieces were all embossed with Tim Holtz 3D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Botanical.

All the embossed die cut pieces were then heat embossed using Eileen Hull's 'Golden Rod' Molten Dimensions Embossing Powders. Make sure to tap off as much of the excess powder before heating as the finished results are much better if the embossing is uneven. You'll also see I didn't bother to emboss the tabs as these are never seen once the box has been assembled.

Another reason for omitting to emboss the tabs on the lid sections was to make it easier to remove a layer of matboard from each as this removes some of the bulk where the pieces overlap.

After using strong wet glue to stick the lid sides together, the top piece was added to create one side of the box. This process was repeated with the remaining die cut pieces to form two lids.

Once the glue had dried the embossed surfaces on both lids were covered with Dina Wakley Media 'Turquoise' Acrylic Paint.

Before the paint had chance to dry I wiped away the excess with a damp piece of tissue to reveal a lot of the embossed surface underneath. This helped to give the finished box a look of verdigris metal. The edges of each lid were matched to the embossing by adding a little Dina Wakley Media 'Ancient' Acrylic Paint. You can age the edges of the box further by dabbing some brown Archival Ink over them.

Linda has a lot of fantastic metal pieces that work perfectly when constructing boxes, including hinges, corners, handles, latches and feet. I used two Bronze Tone Hinges with some coordinating Long Fasteners to secure the back of the lid pieces together.

On the front I added a Bronze Tone Mini Box Handle again with coordinating Long Fasteners - whilst this is merely a decorative element it also helps to add a little weight to the top of the box and hold it in place.

To cover the insides of the box I die cut pieces of paper from the Stamperia 'Oriental Garden' Paper Pack and glued them in place after inking the edges with the brown ink.

To finish the box a few elements were added to the lid to form a mini collage. These included a die cut Trinket Frame from Metallic Kraft Stock (sanded to give a worn look and with Hardware Heads in the corners) some off cuts of paper, folded, layered and hand stitched together, flowers die cut from the Oriental Garden Paper and a Filigree Metal Butterfly, altered with pens to add some colour. Here are a few close ups to show the details;

Thanks for visiting to catch today's Saturday Showcase tutorial. And don't forget there's still time to enter the current Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog challenge 'Treats Not Tricks!'

Jenny xxx

Links to the products used from The Funkie Junkie Boutique;

Eileen Hull Designs Sizzix Scoreboards XL Die - Treasure Box
Eileen Hull Designs Molten Dimensions Embossing Powder by Emerald Creek Craft Supplies - Golden Rod
Tim Holtz Sizzix 3D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Botanical
Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz Die - Trinket Frames
Tim Holtz Idea-Ology 8 x 8 Metallic Kraft Stock
Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Hardware Heads
Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint - Turquoise and Ancient
Stamperia 12 x 12 Paper Pack - Oriental Garden
Bronze Tone Hinges - Set of 4

Antiqued Bronze Tone Mini Box Handles - Set of 4

Filigree Metal Butterfly 5 Piece Set

Saturday Showcase - Eileen Hull Designs Treasure Box and Stacking Drawers

Hi everyone and welcome to another Saturday Showcase, the Design Team's chance to share tutorials and products available from The Funkie Junkie Boutique with you and kick start your creative weekend. Today I'm sharing the tutorial for a project made using two new Sizzix die sets from Eileen Hull Designs.

This vintage style travel trunk opens to reveal sectioned drawers and pockets all ready to hold everything the seasoned traveller could require on a long trip abroad.

Here's how it came together;

The set of three drawers were cut using matboard and Eileen Hull's Stacking Drawers die set. The outer 'sleeve' wraps around easily as all the pieces are pre-scored by the die. When assembling the drawers I found it worked best to put the bottom pieces on the inside for a better fit.

The outer trunk was cut using matboard and Eileen Hull's Treasure Box die set. The pieces are also pre-scored and easy to assemble and you'll see this time I put the bottom pieces on the outside.

You'll see from the photo above how the assembled bare matboard drawers fit together inside the box with room to spare for the inclusion of handles or pulls if required.

Each of the drawer pieces were painted once assembled. 'Stormy Sky' Distress Paint is perfect for this. I then aged them by blending a little 'Potting Soil' Archival Ink along each of the edges.

To prevent the painted surfaces sticking to each other and make the drawers easier to slide in and out I rubbed a plain wax candle over them.

For my travel trunk I covered the box in a faux suede fabric - having done this once a strong suggestion would be to apply your choice of finish, be it fabric or patterned paper, to both sides of your matboard before cutting the pieces with the die as this way you can assemble it pre-decorated.

Above you can see how the drawers sleeves fit snuggly in place inside the decorated box. I chose to use glue on the edges of the sleeves to ensure they were firmly secured in place.

More fabric was added to the outside of the drawers. Again I would suggest you add your choice of fabric or patterned paper to the matboard before cutting these pieces to make assembly much easier and quicker.

The edges were covered in strips cut from Tim Holtz 'Rose Gold' Metallic Kraft Stock and aged with more 'Potting Soil' Archival Ink. By using Tim Holtz 3D Texture Fades 'Foundry' Embossing Folder you can achieve a more realistic look to the Kraft Stock.

To finish the travel trunk I cut hinges using the Treasure Box die set and created a belt to hold the box closed, attaching them with Tim Holtz Long Fasteners. A pocket was added to the inside of the box lid to hold travel documentation; you could use Tim Holtz 'Stitched Slots' Thinlits die set and Tim Holtz 'Treat Bag' Thinlits die set to create these as both fit well.

On the top of the trunk I added a beautiful Copper Tone Filigree Metal Piece from The Funkie Junkie Boutique, filling it with gemstone chips. Linda also stocks gorgeous Antiqued Copper Tiny Triangle Filigree Pieces which worked perfectly in the corners.

Here are some close ups to show more of the details from the finished travel trunk;

I hope you've enjoyed seeing today's Saturday Showcase tutorial and have learned more about how these die sets work beautifully together. Don't forget there's still time to enter the current Frilly and Funkie challenge 'Winter Blues' HERE.

Have a great weekend!

Jenny xxx

Links to the products used from The Funkie Junkie Boutique;

Eileen Hull Designs 'Treasure Box' die set

Eileen Hull Designs 'Stacking Drawers' die set

Tim Holtz 'Stitched Slots' Thinlits die set

Tim Holtz 'Treat Bag' Thinlits die set

Tim Holtz 3D Texture Fades 'Foundry' Embossing Folder

Tim Holtz Metallic Kraft Stock

Tim Holtz Long Fasteners

Tim Holtz Distress Paint 'Stormy Sky'

Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink 'Potting Soil'

Copper Tone Filigree Metal Pieces

Antiqued Copper Tiny Triangle Filigree Pieces