Guest Designer at Let's Squash It!! challenge #6

Have you joined in the fun using your floral embossing folders this month  

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challenge #6 - Use your Floral EF with a Box

For this post I decided to upcycle a couple of boxes I had on hand. 

This one is a very simple addition of a floral embossed border to a square tissue box.   The white card strip off cut fitted the narrower EF just right and it didn't affect the embossing even when I ran it through the Cuttlebug 4 times, then I cut it in half.  To finish I added a black card layer and wrapped it around the box ---  this Embossing Folder is a magazine freebie -- Australian Simply Cards - Floral Flutter

Our son orders lots of stuff on line and we have plenty of boxes so I selected this small one and gave it a coat of olive  acrylic paint, before decorating the sides with my embossed panels.

Painted the box

Next I inked up the EF   -- Sizzix - Beautiful Blooms,  with different Distress Oxide colours, but not all the colours at the same time --   here's the green

Next the yellow and purple --  I used a baby wipe to roughly remove ink from the sections I didn't want that colour.

Lastly the blue shade

I did try to water mist the wet ink but it made a mess.... so I decided to just very lightly mist the white card before I started and repeated the task three times to give me enough to cut and cover the box

The panel on the left was my disaster piece - too wet 

So I had fun anyway and got to use more of my neglected Embossing Folders.

Hope you can find some time to decorate a box and share it with the Challenge at Let's Squash It!. 

Thanks for popping in and have a Wonderful Creative day