Sweet Baby Box

I am so excited about this project!  I spent all afternoon yesterday working on it.  I made it for a special young couple who just had their first baby.  I hope you enjoy looking at it!

OK, so much to say about it....where to start?  I hope this all makes sense!  My original inspiration was from Kirsten.  Her box was so wonderful I had to make one!  She has a great tutorial.  I've made one using her dimensions, but I changed them for this design.  I wanted to use my MS PATP, so I picked the 8" size.  The rest of my dimensions were based on this size.  The adorable image is from Mo's.  He's called Baby boy s and I think he is adorable.  She has several images like this, boy and girl, and different hair styles.  I loved the wispy little hair on this guy.  I used Coordinations cardstock (Joanns sells this, and it frequently goes on sale for a great price.  I like it as well as Bazzil, but I never see Bazzil on sale.) and a great DCWV pad called Nana's Nursery.  This was the boy pad.  There's also a cute girl one I want to get.  :)  After I punched my 2 large blue squares I used a cotton ball and Not Quite Navy (SU) ink pad to ink the edges on both sides.  I really like how that turned out.  My layers are pretty simple.  I used the sketch from CLP this week.  I sewed all the layers (of course)  The ribbons, lace and buttons are all from my stash as is the little fluff of marabou in the corner.  I made my own pins in the corner.  I used beads from my daughters stash  :)  (she "borrows" from me so, I think it's only fair!)

Here you can see how the drawers open up.  I have to tweak my numbers a bit, the drawers are slightly difficult to open, but I think this one will be OK.  I'll adjust that on the next one.

Here I pulled out the 4 drawers so you can see each one.  I thought this box could be used to hold special things from baby.  I used my Spellbinders Labels Four Nestie to cut the labels.  I just used my computer to print out the words on cardstock first.  I lined the bottom of each drawer with patterned paper and added pearls to the corners, and bows above the labels.

Well, I guess I was in too much of a hurry to notice I selected the picture that was sideways, and I'm not sure I can flip it around here.  Anyway, this is the bottom of the box.  I used brads for the feet.  I added my personalized stamp too.

I will be entering this in these challenges:

Mo's Challenge Blog  Buttons and Bows

CLP  Sketch
Stamp Something  Digi Day

Thanks for taking a peek!