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Some days no matter how hard you try putting something together nothing works, 

Then there are other days when you're just pottering, you maybe start to have a little tidy up, you find this and that and suddenly things just falling into place with one another, before you know it you've made something.

Well this is one of those pieces, It started when I rediscovered a little wooden box {it's actually one of those magic boxes with a hidden way of opening it that my OH found and brought home for me {bless him}

When I held it to the side it reminded me of a nesting box and the idea kinda grew from there.

While tiding I also found an old cardboard book page project I had done nothing with, so I repurposed it by cutting out the heart. I made a rose from kraft glassine and found a little feathered bird i'd had for ages

  I painted the box with the lush new Fresco paints by PaperArtsy, using the crackle glaze in between old gold and toad hall

I used some old packaging string to make a nest and placed it inside the hole.

 The thing that really made the piece work for me was the tree trunk,
I used the inside tube from my recently used up canvas roll, I cut a segment away to allow the box to fit snug, cut 3 half segments for the tripod style base, then covered it all with more kraft glassine, but i scrunched it first which gives it the fab textured effect.

I think the only thing that would make this better is to have maybe added some faux eggs to the nest, but hay i can do that later.

Oh I almost forgot...durrr..
This is my entry for the Happy Daze current 'Wood' themed challenge hosted on facebook HERE
♥ HUGZ ♥

Shades of Blue!

Here is just a quickie card i made for the
Happy Daze 'Shades of Blue' challenge being held on facebook HERE
If your looking for my woyww post.. it's just below this one!

I used some of Tim's new air travel stamps and the young sailor is by paper artsy.
♥ HUGZ ♥