The girls over at Concroption.com were issued a challenge to alter an item that would be mailed to us by Tricia… I was so thrilled to see this super cute Peeps Lunchbox in my mailbox. I thought about it and decided to make it into a purse. I’m always up for making something I can use!
I started out by taking it apart and wet sanding it with 600 grit sand paper. I primed it with acrylic primer and followed up with two coats of my favorite acrylic paint. :) I traced a maya roads chipboard bird on the front with an american crafts pigment pen. I painted the bird with a darker shade of acrylic paint. I let it dry and then coated it with a glossy coat. I think it yellowed the color a bit… so I don’t love love love the color, but it is pretty close to the color I wanted. I added a adhesive rhinestone as the eye for the bird and a basic grey branch rubon.
I created a hang tag by die cutting a piece of Teresa Collins houndstooth transparency with my Top Note Die in my big shot. I cut it in half and then punched the cut edge with my Stampin’ Up! Spiral notebook punch. I also Die Cut a Quickutz J out of coaster board and glued it to the tag. I punched a hole on the top of the tag and tied a piece of grosgrain ribbon on to hang from the handle.
I lined the inside with white felt and blanket stitched the edges with aqua embroidery floss. I also added aqua eyelet trim to the inside.
I hope you like it, I know I love it! And I found some peeps to match too! :)
Love Love and Blog you later, Joscie, rhymes with Bossy!
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way cute! i thought the lunch can was cute by itself (i LOVE anything peeps)— then when i scrolled down….oh my gosh even more cute!!
Love it Joscie! Especially the matching peeps! :)
Love the purse!!!! You do such great work!
I wish I had more time to be “Creative!” That turned out just adorable. I guess with 3 boys, you’re “searching” for that “girly” stuff?! ;-)
BTW- Flat Joscie had a BLAST at Cafe du Monde Saturday night!!!!
That’s super cute!! Love the little birdie, the tag, the cute ruffle on the inside… A-dorable!! :D
a-stinkin-dorable joscie! what a darling little alter job!
Love, love, love the purse, inside and out!
It looks like Flat Stanley has had more fun than me recently :P Gorgeous pictures and adorable book!
That is so neat! I have all kinds of metal packaging collected from different purchases and this just gave me the incentive to do something with it.
You did an amazing job with the lunch box. It’s neat how you altered it inside AND outside.
How cute!! Love that blue color. -Did you spray it with any sort of protectant when you were finished????
Thanks Erin! I painted a clear gloss coat over it that I think yellowed my beautiful blue a little bit. I think I’ll try a spray protectant next time.
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