Hero Arts Tie Dye Love card

I took an alcohol ink background that I wasn't very happy with and decided to try Martha Stewart Glitter Paste on it. I love the look of glitter paste and always wanted to try it. I took a Hero Arts stencil I had and washi taped it over the yupo paper background and with a palette knife I put some of the glitter paste on the stencil. It took a while to dry but I like the results. It had a hippie vibe, a cool artsy pattern over a tie dye look background. So what other sentiment would work but "LOVE"? Cuz that's all you need....sentiment die by Hero Arts.

This month's A Blog named Hero's challenge is "Anything Goes", perfect for me to enter this!

Rust it Up Challenge

This week's Simon Says Stamp challenge is Rust It Up! Well, I'm up for a good challenge. I made some Christmas cards where I ran red foil paper through an embossing folder and then ran a gold ink pad over it. This made an unbelievably beautiful effect. If you are interested in seeing it, look at my blog from 12/09/19. So I decided to do something similar here, I took a piece of black cardstock, ran the Tim Holtz/Sizzix gears folder over it, then took a gold metallic ink pad and ran it over the raised parts...perfection. I added the gears and the wordband using Distress Collage Medium which is the strong adhesive. 

Here I'm trying to decide if I should add the butterfly...still not sure.

Here's what I used. I painted on some of the Finnabair Patina effect pastes onto the black cardstock.

Mailbox full of LOVE!

A piece of cardstock 3.5" x 10.5". Score on the long side at 2.5", 5", 7.5" and 10"

I used a rectangle die to create feet, you can use any square or rectangle that fits or even cut freehand.

Here I glued the small tab (the 10" scoreline) inside to create a box. Here you can see the feet as well.
I forgot to take a pic of the 2 circles I cut out of the same cardstock. The circle is a 2 3/8 inch circle that fits on the side of the box. I glued them 1/2 way down to create the curve of the mailbox. 

Here you can see how I glued the 2 circles on the side and attached the tabs.

Here are the 2 tabs, 3.5" x 3/4", scored on the long side at 1/2" and 3", fold and glue inside mailbox.

I started decorating the box with patterned paper cut slightly smaller than the sides of the mailbox to decorate. I also created a small faux "door" using the metallic paper and a small rectangle handle in black. I die cut hearts and envelopes and glued them to clear plastic and then glued to the tabs so the box would look like it was so full it was popping out of the top. Just be sure the pieces are short enough to fit into the envelope when folded, unless you aren't using an envelope. I also diecut the word "love" to attach to the front.

Thank you for looking!