Crabby Cakes Blog: Slumber Party Delight Shooting Star Trinket Box

Sorry for the long delay on posting anything new to our blog!

As promised any moons ago, my goal was to see what I can create using the Walmart's Cricut Lite Slumber Party Cartridge. I was at the dollar store and found a trinket box for guess what...A DOLLAR! Looking at it I immediately know I was going to create a trinket box for my friend's daughter Lindzi! I hope she likes it!

The first step in the process was to paint the box. I used Plaid acrylic paint. A raspberry metallic base paint.

I used the Cricut Slumber Party Cartridge and some left over scrap pieces to create the Shooting Star.
I used a scrap of Lasting Impressions Black for the back ground and outside border. I used a scrap of FairyTale background paper which was part of a larger scrap paper packet new from Hobby Lobby. This I created the shooting stars part and a glitters border! Using my Cricut Expressions, the image was cut at 3 inches.

After cutting my image, I simple decoupaged down all the layers (I don't decoupage the top layers yet) and wrapped a rubber band around the outside of the box to secure the border would dry snug to the sides
without lifting.

Once my layers were dried (approx. 1 hour) I went back and added my inside top and bottom layer, again, using the FairyTale background paper. The fit of insides my vary depending on the trinket box you purchase. The once shown here was 3 1/4 X 3 1/4. Decoupage the bottom and top of the inside lid and place your drawer sheets on top. I used a ruler to smooth out to the paper to ensure no gaps or buckling. If you looks closely, there is one slight one I could not correct.....(as much as I try I can not always do everything is perfect, just don't tell my husband that! LOL).

Once the top and bottom liners are in place, decoupage the paper once again to "seal it" I left my trinket box open over night to dry.

The next morning I decoupaged the entire outside of the box and let it dry while I was off to work. When I came back home, Grabbing some Stickles I went to tonight "decorate" the shoot star.

Here is the outcome....I hope you enjoy it, but I especailly am hoping Lindzi will enjoy it more!