Fairy Boxes and a new discovery

Hello friends, hope life is treating you well. Today I have somewhat of a personal post. Many of you know that I have two little granddaughters who live in Australia, and as I only get to see them at the most twice a year, presents are always part of these visits.... (I am going over again at the end of this month).

You may remember that I made them each a little mini album with photos of themselves using the G45 Fairydust collection, well, here are a couple of little treasure boxes to go along with them. They are little wooden boxes I purchased at a craft store, I painted them and then used some of the leftover papers to decorate them.

I decorated both the out and the inside of course and tried hard to make them match their little books more or less.

One of their favourite things to do is "craft" as they call it. Anything that involves colouring, painting and sticking, so each of the boxes will have some crafty goodies inside.

I found these great little kits online, and I thought I would just tell you about them in case you are interested. They are basically woodless coloured pencils, some strips of sandpaper and a little wire brush. And this is what you can do with them: You rub the colour on the sand paper over your paper substrate. Some colour will come off, but then using the wire brush, you can scrub way more colour grains off onto the paper, then you rub with your finger and you get super colour effects.
At its most basic you can just blend the colours together, so easy to do and a great tactile experience too:

Here I did a little picture on watercolour paper, but I soon came to the conclusion, smoother paper is better.

The next one I copied more or less from their website, it was done on smoother paper which I think is much better.

Stencilling of course works great too:

I used a slightly different technique for the stencilled ones, on the one on the left I stencilled first and then blended colours around it, on the one on the right I put colour down first and then used the stencil on top of that, it creates a slightly softer effect.
Any smudges can be removed with the help of a normal eraser.
 Here is a link to a video that shows you many more techniques.

The website is in German but here  is a link that takes you to an English pdf. There are many more gorgeous examples in their online shop. And they ship internationally too.

Now before I finish I want to make clear I am not affiliated with this firm in any way, I just thought it would be fun and something different to share. With the little ones we will use them for colouring Easter Eggs, we will also make some little lanterns, I may post some of the results at a later point.

Thank you for popping in, your visits are always very much appreciated!

xxxxx