Sometimes the simplest things are the most effective. This Laura Ashley box had housed a perfume candle and has been sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks asking to be altered. It was a very pretty box to start with, a pale peach in colour with embossed cream flowers - but it had a few pieces of annoying print to spoil it.
I decided I only needed to disguise the printing so added a brown and pink ribbon around the base on to which I had fixed one of my Bee charms using a brad, and using a second brad to fix the ribbon into place. I then added a few pink and brown flowers over the main printing fixing them in place with contrasting large brads.
I made a hole in the centre of the lid and threaded a loop of pink ribbon with brown polka dots through a brown flower and the through the centre hole, fixing the ends of the ribbon to the underside of the lid. My box was completed and I am really pleased with it.
Here are a couple of other things that I've recently altered and are featured elsewhere on my blog - this was a little pink pail....
and this was a boring old clipboard.....
