My Teddyboo: 4/29/12

For my newest project, I altered an unfinished recipe box that I purchased from my local AC Moore to create a keepsake box for a baby girl. I used the beautiful paper collection from Graphic 45 called Little Darlings. I also used tons of beautiful flowers from I Am Roses. There's a list with links for the flowers I used at the bottom of this post.

First I stained the box with a deep walnut color, painted over that with vintage white paint from Folk Art and then sanded and distressed the box to give it more of a vintage look. Also to give the box more presence, I topped it with an MDF plaque and some baby booties that I sewed myself - can you believe it?! I used a free baby bootie pattern I found off the Internet and some nice thick ivory felt that I purchased at Joann's. To make the booties look vintage, I trimmed them out with some laces, seam binding and some super cute mini crochet flowers from I Am Roses.

I also decorated the top of the recipe box with my new favorite I Am Roses flowers — they're all my favorites, LOL :) — the white roses with pink centers. OMG they are gorgeous. I LOVE them. I also used rosebuds, a daisy, a gardenia that I topped with butterflies that I fussy cut from the paper collection, as well as a large white rose.

Since this is a recipe box, I created six tabbed dividers that can be used to organize photos or other small keepsakes. I was inspired to create an organizer with dividers after watching project videos from Marlene and Jade who are 4umarlene and JadedStudios on YouTube. Their organizer projects looked like a lot of fun, and I had a blast making these dividers.

I used a lot of hydrangea petals and that colored with the new Nantucket Pearls collection from Lindy's Stamp Gang. What BEAUTIFUL colors. I was simply blown away working with them on this project.