Flaming June for our Creative Corner

Hello everyone and Happy June, the month when summer is supposed to start.... can't wait for a little bit of warm sunshine! The first of the month is always busy here on my little blog, as it's the day of several challenges starting, so if you are here for the second time, thank you!!This is my contribution for Our Creative Corner where the theme is Flaming June, chosen by the lovely Julia.

Now I have to be honest, I was seriously challenged when I saw the theme and the inspiration picture that Julia provided. These were colours that I don't do. I mean yellows and oranges.... me? No way. But, a challenge is a challenge right, and I guess to compensate I have possibly even gone too bright, and red has rather taken over from the yellows and oranges, but hey ho, too late now.

Anyway, on to my project. As you can see, I decided to make an ATB (Artist Trading Block), this is the large 3" one. I cut my basic block from mount board and then prepared a piece of card with the flaming colours to cover the different sides. I used Dylusions sprays and the salt technique for this:

Next I cut some yellow card  with the same die to line the inside, inked around the edges and stamped a couple of impressions with a stamp from the Tim Holtz Distress Damask set.

I glued it to my mount-board pieces and then glued my box together. Then I cut up my pre-made card into six 2.75 x 2.75" pieces ready to cover the sides. Before doing that I edged all the sides of the cube with black distress paint.

I decided to use the Indigoblue Blazing Poppies stamp to stamp over the pieces for the sides of my box. Below is the first side:

I stamped straight onto the piece, then stamped again onto smooth white card, fussy cut just the large flowers, shaped them a bit and then glued them on top for more dimension. I added a tiny bit of Walnut Stain Distress embossing powder to the centres of each flower, highlighted the little flowers with a white pen and added some butterflies cut with the Tim Holtz decorative strip die Butterfly Frenzy for further embellishments. These were a gift from my lovely friend Anne Redfern, as I don't actually own that die.

Each of the sides was pretty much done in the same way, just using different parts of the poppies stamp.

Here you can see the lid, decorated with some leaves from the Tim Holtz Garden Greenery die, a Ticket from the Odds and Ends set of stamps and a large flower, another gift, this time from my lovely friend Rita and another butterfly.

And below finally you can see the inside of the box with the lid open:

I just  had to add some chit chat stickers that say "be different" for this certainly is very different for me. Hope you like it even so and make sure you go over to Our Creative Corner to see all the other incredible projects, trust me, you won't be disappointed!

Thank you for visiting and have a lovely month of June!!

Tim Holtz odds and ends	Distress Damask	Blazing poppies	ATB large
Distress Paint	Dylusions	Dylusions Squeezed Orange	Dylusions
Archival Ink	Distress Ink	Distress Ink	Distress Ink
Distress Ink	Distress Ink	Frayed Burlap	Stripdie
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