Mother's Day Explosion Box

Hi Everyone...

So are you ready to see the explosion box I made for my mom as a  mother's day gift this year...
I choose 'Garden' theme for this explosion box as my mom loves flowers...be it  real or artificial.... She has a whole cupboard full of artificial flowers made of different materials, types & sizes.... fabric flowers, crystals flowers, natural dried flowers, flowers with glitter on them... the list will go on..... & she keeps on changing the flower arrangement in our home every few months....
She also loves gardening.... we have many plants in our home....


Everything in this explosion box is handmade from scratch.... I have added some details below about the process that went into making it....So go on & enjoy....

I have kept the outside of the box very simple... I just dabbed some white & blue acrylic colour randomly  on the side panels with a sponge...to imitate the sky...  For the top I arranged some flower buds, leaves & a butterfly.

The box after the lid is removed...

The garden looks so real & amazing when the flowers & butterflies dance with the wind... In this picture you can see the butterflies in action.....  ^__^

The grass is made with  1cm strips of fringed paper... I had to fringe a whole A3 sheet to cover the entire base & side panels with grass.... My hands were aching badly after fringing  so much... but the end result was worth it... it looks so fantastic...

The flowers are made with baby pink paper disks cut from scalloped scissors & sprayed with homemade reddish-pink glimmer mist. The center is made with very small yellow beads I found in a local shop. The flowers look so real & beautiful .... 

The butterfly is hand painted with acrylic colour, water colour & some 3D outliner with pearl finish... it gives a very beautiful glittery effect to the butterfly... It is not very much visible in the images but in real life it looks beautiful... The antenna is made with very thin wires.. twisted at the ends & dipped in black acrylic paint.

Have you noticed my new watermark?? I was thinking of making one for quite sometime...The idea came from Tejal.... She has made some beautiful watermarks for herself  & some other bloggers... So, I thought of trying it myself..... & finally I made this one... 

Entering in the following challenges :

• Anything Goes Challenge blog - Things with wings
• CraftyJC Challenge - For a special lady
• The Paper Variety - Handmade flowers