Dream home

There's a competition over on Fiskarettes to make a project with hidden eggs. I thought it would be fun to make something a bit different to the usual card for new home owners and came up with this little altered box!

I dowloaded the template for the large matchbox here (thanks Dee!), stamped the outside with Woodgrain and made a liner for the inside stamped with Weathered Wood. I cut a reverse mask for the ticket stamp so that I could add the birds inside the frame then added some little words with stamps.

Some raffia, twigs, skeleton leaves and a key charm finish off the panel and I've machine stitched round the edge. I used the same technique with the ivy as I did for the card in my last post but I cut these out once I'd "stamped" them.

I had fun with the inside! My hubby can only shake his head when he asks "What are you doing?" when I'm sitting on the step outside the shed in lovely sunshine and he gets the reply "Making a nest!". I soaked some birch twigs in warm water to make them a bit more pliable and then wove them together to make the tiny nest. It's lined with a feather and the eggs are jelly bean sweets. I added more ivy leaves, a sentiment strip and a feather.

The little scroll unties to provide space for the message to the new home owners.

Stamps (all Cornish Heritage Farms):
Tree Swallows
Wood grain backgrounder
Weathered Wood backgrounder
The Ticket Counter (Rummage Bin line)
Everyday Petites (Mona Lisa Moments line)
Script Essential Expressions (Mona Lisa Moments line)

Ink:
Adirondack dye ink by Ranger (Espresso and Stonewashed)
Tim Holtz Distress by Ranger (Vintage Photo)
Memento by Tsukineko (Bamboo Leaves)

Paper: smooth white and premium weight copy paper

Other:
Raffia
Key charm
Sewing machine and thread
Skeleton leaves
Birch twigs
Ivy leaves
Feathers

Thanks for visiting - I had fun making this, hope you had fun looking!