Robin's Creations of Joy: Thanksgiving Box

Preparing for Thanksgiving

and visitors is always fun for me.

I love to be with family during this time.

This year I decided to make a box.

My Thanksgiving box is for our thoughts on

our blessings. Each family member will

add to this either with a picture colored by little hands

or their personal take on blessings in their life.

As I was working with this box,

by the way, it is a hamburger box, When I purchase

hamburgers they come in a box, and I have been

saving boxes for a while with the plan to do something fun.
So, as I was working on this box, I decided
to bring to it a lot of collectibles that I have been saving
for many years and never use.
So as I was working on the box, I felt that the Saffron Sunrise line
would be great for Thanksgiving colors and style.

I started with Saffron Sunrise cardstock.

The yellows and deep grays are the colors I was wanting

for background colors.

So I covered the box in these papers.
I just used elmers glue to attach the papers to the box.

Then after the papers are glued to the box,

I used dimensional paint, and painted these letters

with a plastic template.

This was so fun and easy to do, and a new
technique for me in my scrappy room.

I then started adding papers, and items.
On this box I used quite a few cut chipboard from
Gina's Designs.
Love her work!

My additions to the front of the box came from many different eras in
my life. A piece of fabric, a pumpkin cut from an old
kitchen towel, flowers I sprayed from purple to rust,
a leather N, a feather given to me from my mother in law
at least 30 years ago, acorns from the trees in my backyard.