Altered Cigar Box Swap Project "Nature Box"

This is the box I made for my sweet swap partner Donna . This is for the Altered Cigar Box Swap on Scrapbook.com She descried working in her scrap room with the window open listening to the water fountain outside as she crafts. So I went with a nature theme for her vintage box. Antique ledger pages were torn and decoupaged on as the background. I used the "Art Is template with texture paste, to represent Donna's crafting. I made the nest from string, and the eggs from crayola clay. A stick from my back yard on the closure. Embellished with dry mosses, sisal and flowers, some painted and unpainted chipboard, feathers, Reneabouquets butterfly. Acrylic art pebbles to represent the water from the fountain. Printed the image, and quotes.
Cover quote:
"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." -Walt Whitman
Inside cover quote:
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." -John Muir

 

 Inside cover quote:
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." -John Muir

 This is the box before picture.