Friday, April 23, 2010

Tuesday Spotlight & Giveaway: Mickey Tanner’s Gift Boxes

Mickey Tanner is a paper artist from Twin Falls, Idaho.
Her shop is full of fun handmade paper boxes that she makes using turn-of-the-century methods.  Some of her designs were even featured on the cover of Country Living Magazine last December!
Boxes on the Cover of Country Living Magazine
The set of nine boxes she sent me arrived quickly and are wonderful.  They are eco-friendly innovative, and the design is simple but  interesting.   Each has been meticulously folded, scored and center point glued with a shape to complete a lovely box, ready for your finds and treasures.  We came up with lots of uses for them (101!!) and are excited to share them with you.  How cute they look when they are positioned just right!!  You may arrange them into all kinds of  fun designs, stack them in a basket, or glue them into a pattern on cardboard, frame them, and hang them on the wall.  The possibilities are endless.

Mickey Tanner is a paper artist from Twin Falls, Idaho.
Her shop is full of fun handmade paper boxes that she makes using turn-of-the-century methods.  Some of her designs were even featured on the cover of Country Living Magazine last December!

The set of nine boxes she sent me arrived quickly and are wonderful.  They are eco-friendly innovative, and the design is simple but  interesting.   Each has been meticulously folded, scored and center point glued with a shape to complete a lovely box, ready for your finds and treasures.  We came up with lots of uses for them (101!!) and are excited to share them with you.  How cute they look when they are positioned just right!!  You may arrange them into all kinds of  fun designs, stack them in a basket, or glue them into a pattern on cardboard, frame them, and hang them on the wall.  The possibilities are endless.
Visit Mickey Tanner’s shop, Eco Vintage Vegan, right here.

Help me think of some more options and post with the comments please!  Thank you!
101 Uses for Mickey’s Mini Boxes:
  1. Earrings
  2. Bracelets
  3. Ear Phones
  4. Gift box
  5. Chocolates
  6. I-pod Shuffle
  7. Dried flowers
  8. Seeds
  9. Change
10.  Crayons
11.  Safety Pins
12.  Straight Pins
13.  Buttons
14.  Melaleuca Oil
15.  Erasers
16.  Hair Bands
17.  Bobby Pins
18.  Necklace
19.  Lipstick
20.  Lipbalm   


21.  Jelly Beans
22.  Paper Clips
23.  Sticky Notes
24.  Goldfish Crackers
25.  Dental Floss
26.  Rock Collection
27.  Lock of Hair
28.  Wallet Size Pictures
29.  Beads
30.  Clothespins
31.  Hacky Sack
32.  Herbal Tea Packets
33.  Mints
34.  Cotton Balls
35.  Cotton Swabs
36.  Screw Driver Bits
37.  Tacks
38.  Hershey Kisses
39.  Love Notes
40.  Gum



41.  Foreign Coins
42.  Ribbons
43.  Ear Plugs
44.  Miniature Book
45.  Charger Cord
46.  Batteries
47.  Glass Eye
48.  Puzzle Pieces
49.  Stamps
50.  Stickers
51.  Ponytail Holders
52.  Pencil Sharpeners
53.  Eye Shadow
54.  Blush
55.  Refrigerator Magnets
56.  Nails
57.  Push Pins
58.  Graduation Tassel
59.  Binder Clips
60.  Pencil Lead     




61.  Peanuts in the Shell
62.  Bobbins
63.  Fruit Snacks
64.  Shells from the Beach
65.  Keys
66.  Vitamins
67.  Medication
68.  Important Receipts
69.  Rings
70.  Cuttlebug Templates
71.  Staples
72.  Little Stumpy Pencils
73.  Tooth Picks
74.  Coupons
75.  Box Tops for Education
76.  Soup Labels for Education
77.  Pop Tabs for the Ronald McDonald House
78.  Memory Cards
79.  Rose Petals
80.  Screws



81.  Nuts
82.  Bolts
83.  Scotch Tape
84.  Tea Lights
85.  Twisty Ties
86.  Marble Collection
87.  Band Aids
88.  Menastil
89.  Rubber Bands
90.  Nail Clippers
91.  Job Assignments for the kids
92.  Easter Eggs
93.  Tweezers
94.  Stubby Highlighters
95.  Miniature Nativity
96.  Stevia Packets
97.  Cupcake Baking Cups
98.  Food Coloring
99.  Mini Markers
100.  Floss
101.  Matches

Now, for the free give-away:
Just post a comment below and tell me where you placed a link to http://CrystelleBoutique.com
Or you can “Like” us on Facebook. Tell me in your comment….!
That’s it.   Thanks.
The winner will receive the set of nine gift boxes shown in the pictures above.
Good luck!  {The winner will be selected by random drawing on Tuesday morning, April 27, 2010}
               

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Earth Day Celebration - Handmade Paper Sheets - Recycled Paper

In this listing 29 handmade "Heather Gary" sheet paper for your creative journal project; paper mache, baby book, watercolor or ACEO for your shop items. Sheets are easily manipulated, spray down with a water bottle to add your own embellishments or add food coloring to the water bottle and spray the paper to add your desired color. Sable watercolor brushes work well on the surface. Acrylics and charcoals also. These are multipurpose sheets. Simply fold in half for a perfect personal card. Embellish the front flap with your dried flowers, feathers or herbs.

These 29 sheets are made from a pulp that is steeped for 24 hours, then blended into a slurry and screened. Each sheet has been dried, weighted and pressed. White recycled card stock and trimmings from handmade gift boxes.

No preservatives or additives, acid free.

I so love the natural fibrous qualities of hand made paper and I leave the edges rag rough on each piece. I only make natural fiber papers, no glitter, no un-natural coloring and no foreign material.

All 29 sheets weigh 1# 2 ounces, measure 8.5" by 11" and will shipped Priority Mail wrapped in tissue paper, protected by card board on either side. "Sharpe" pens write best on this hand made paper, but I also like the ink well pens...an old fashion touch.

Would not recommend placing paper in your printers.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Natural Rare RED Coral Branch - Vintage Specimen




In this listing one lovely branch coral pendant, wrapped in 20 gauge sterling round wire. Large open bell to allow for a chain.

The rare red coral branch measures 2" long and 1 3/4" wide and weighs 2 grams.

Pendant will arrive in a handmade gift box, sent Priority mail. *Note: Coral branch comes with an 18" "recycled" vintage sterling silver 1mm snake chain.

Twice in the last 15 years I've stumbled onto lapidary men with rare Chinese Coral branch, once in 1995 and again at a rock club show in 2002. Each meeting I purchased all the coral they each had to sell. In each case their collection had come from estate sells where the collectors acquired their coral before the Great Barrier Law. My understanding of this red coral is that I am able to use it in jewelry and for collecting. I have had customers ask me about the "laws" regarding selling rare branch coral. And in each case, I refer to our rock club by-laws regarding collecting. If the coral was obtained and sold prior to the species act in 1970, then a collector can resale or create jewelry to resale.

“Red Coral helps one to become in harmony with the natural forces of the universe and with the wilderness within ones own being. It provides for practically with respect to ones avocation, balancing the material with the spiritual, and further aligning one with the source of all wisdom. It both opens and activates the base chakra, stimulating the energetic pursuit of predetermined goals.” Reference guide: Melody – Love Is In The Earth

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Funky Spring batch - Handmade Gift Boxes - 35

In this listing 35 hand made, hand built gift boxes for your treasure's, craft's or gifts. Bright spring sprouts, blossoms and leaf patterns in a glossy finish. Made from hand cut 12 x 24 inch scrap booking gloss card stock and complimentary hand cut & die-cast stock shapes.

This is a eco-friendly design and the construction is so simple. Each box measures 4 x 4 x 2" and 6" corner to corner each has been meticulously folded, scored and center point glued with a shape to complete a ready made hand built box. The boxes are empty inside. But ready for your fine creative treasure's. Conveniently each box is left "un-marked" by ecovintagevegan, allowing you to take claim for these little gifted wonders...and fill them with your own hand made candies or jewels.

This American style of folding paper, yields from the turn of the century, where lady folk congregated to make and reproduce these little boxes from post cards, greeting and birthday cards.

Certainly easy enough for everyone to assemble, but why? when I have done the work for you.

Etsy shopper will receive all 35 large gift boxes for the listed price.

Parcel Post shipping for United States. Multiple sets of boxes require Parcel Post with insurance.