My first giftbox

For a challenge at the forum of Scrapfever I made this giftbox. I got the idea thanks to an online class of Prima girl Julie Fei Fan-Balzer, which I saw on the Prima blog. The giftbox is made of cardstock and decorated with the papers I got in the scrapkit from Scrapfever. It is the To Love and Cherish collection from Imaginisce.
This is the outside of the giftbox:

I decorated the box with a chipboard butterfly from Buzz & Bloom, which I covered with stickles. The white e-line Prima flowers are colored with glimmermist (color: Twilight) and I added some plastic stamens. I cut out a pattern from one of the papers, glimmermisted it and covered it with paperglaze.

The box is held together by a piece of white ribbon. The bow of the ribbon is decorated with some handmade paper beads. I made these of the same patterned paper which I used to decorate the box.

When you open the box, it falls open and shows a mini-album:

I made the mini-album with some pieces of white cardstock. I binded the pages with some black scrappersfloss and attached some more handmade paperbeads and some pearls to the ends.

The front of the album is decorated with another stickled chipboard butterfly, a flower and a tag.

I didn't have better matching pictures for a project like this so I decided to use my own weddingpictures to fill the mini-album. I also used some scraps of the patterned paper again.

The date in front of the album is our weddingdate...almost 15 years later I still love this guy..even more!

Sandra