Dear Santa Card

Long overdue haha. Made this card before Christmas last year. was gonna "mass produce" a dozen of this design to give away to my friends. but i delivered my baby boy 3 weeks early so i never got to finish making them to give away. here's the only completed one. hehe
i had another half done one though... without title... so i made it into a card for Kline, my swap partner on the Scrapbeach (no it doesn't say "dear santa" of cos! hehe). So Kline... if you are looking, watch for this! hope you like it :)

Collection Altered Multi-Drawer Trinket Box

December Project! Altered a Multi-Drawer Box by Karen Foster.

Embellies were mostly just buttons by Graphic45, with a couple of metal embellies from Tim Holtz. Of cos, the little drawers require pattern paper to cover... October Afternoon papers were used here, but you could always use scraps! Budget eh? haha

See the border that looks like wood? Thought it's real?! Aha! Gotcha!

A technique that I learnt from Sharon. Rub the length of a candle down kraft cardstock. Remember not to hold the candle like a pencil and draw. Next, rub distress ink over the cardstock. I use Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink here. The candle wax will resist the ink and there you have it! Woodgrain!

Another method would be to paint the surface with acrylic paint using a dry brush (preferably a damaged brush that has dried paint on it). Then just run distress ink over it. The uneven surface created by the brush can mimick woodgrain too!

Have fun!