eTeam Picks Challenge - Altered Boxes

Welcome to eclectic Paperie's first eTeam Picks Challenge! The eTeam Picks Challenge is held on the third Thursday of each month and each challenge is an opportunity for you to be inspired by one of our eTeam’s creations, to share your work, and to be entered into our challenge prize drawing. Marjie Kemper here as your host... I've chosen the theme of Altered Boxes.

The eTeam Picks Challenge is all about inspiration and having fun!  During each challenge one of the eTeam members will share a topic, word, technique, sketch, or product that will become the foundation for your creation.  This challenge is all about mixing it up and just enjoying the creative process... anything goes!  We want to see your work and hear about your inspiration. All of those who play along with our challenge will be entered into a prize drawing for a $15.00 gift certificate to the eclectic Paperie store.

Choose any box you wish, and change it in some way.  As you can see, I've transformed a tissue box holder.  It was plain white to begin with, and it soaked up my Dylusions Ink Sprays quite nicely.  I used lots of stamps and stencils to decorate.

Don't worry if your stamping isn't perfect. I went in with a fine point pen and filled in the gaps where the stamped border was off below. 

I used Dylusions Ink Sprays in a water brush (love those - see my stash? That was a splurge last year - one for every color!) to color my leaves, and black ink on my blending tool to fill in the spot showing on the black wavy border.  

You can also stencil heavily to cover any smudges/spots, as I did on the box top:

We can't wait to see your altered box!  Here are a few things to keep in mind for this challenge…

 

• You do not have to use products sold in the eP store…but we do love it when you do.
• Share a direct link to your creation, not just your blog, using the Linky Tools feature at the end of this post.  If, for any reason, the Linky Tools doesn’t cooperate, please add a link in the Comments section of the blog.
• When uploading to any online galleries, please use any of the following keywords; eP, eclectic Paperie or eTeam Pick Challenge.  Link your creations to the eP blog.
• If you’d like to be considered as one of our featured projects and be entered into our prize drawing, please be sure to add your link no later than 6pm EST on Thursday, January 31st.