Last year I embarked on a few explosion boxes to highlight the first few months of my precious daughter's life. This was especially important for us since on of her grandmother's lives so far away!
Below you can see the top side of her completed box. I went with a very clear "purple" theme here 😂
While the papers, elements, etc. came from a past Tres Jolie Kit Club kit, the box was straight from Scrapbook.com and purchased right after watching one of their Thursday Lives. I purchased both the white and the craft boxes (this is the craft box.)
On the lid and the outside "walls" I used plenty of texture paste and gel medium to make the box strong. I know how much I love to use heavy embellishments and I didn't want the box to fall apart. Although I didn't use many of them, the explosion boxes come with several additional envelopes, pockets, etc. that can be used inside the box. For the purpose of this project I just wanted to fit as many photos front as center as I could.
Below you can see the outside "walls" and the lid. I used my Cricut to cut most of the paper pieces to cut down on time. A bit of distressing and a lot of ink later, the final result was exactly what I wanted! 😍
Final result below. For the explosion panels inside I used much smaller pieces of paper so that more of the craft background would show through. The box in the middle is one of the extra pieces that came with the explosion box. Since Grammy lives so far away, we sent her a "little rock from Little Rock" inside the little box 💜
And there you have it! (Ignore the top of my feet in the picture above!) My GoPro recently lived it's last day, so once I get a new camera system I'll put together of video of how easily this all comes together! Until then, thanks for checking this out!
xoxo,
Mel
