My Box Is Finished At Last

Last year I was in the Andy Skinner club at the Craft Barn, over the year we learn't lots of different techniques using DecoArt products. Over the last three or four months we had a large 30cm x 30cm Artimio box to decorate. Of course me being me didn't get it finished, so a couple of months ago I decided to finish it. When I got it out of the bag I decided that I didn't like the colours that I'd used so after a few new coats of paint and a bit of dry brushing I finally had a box that I could live with.

This is what the box looked like minus the panel in the lid.

This is the lid. I adhered flowers and metal charms to one corner, I stencilled modelling paste through a mask on the edges and for the inner part of the box I used a Sizzix die to die cut some thick card and added some chipboard letters. Then everything was painted.
I enlarged a Gecko Galz image and adhered it to some mountboard. I then covered it with Crackle Paint and adhered it to the lid when the crackle had dried.

 Here is a close up of the corner of the lid.

Here is a close up of the crackle.

A couple of photos of the sides.

And finally the inside of the box. I'm going to use the box as a memory box, so I adhered some photos to the inside of the lid, they are photos of my mum and dad, my grandparents, sister and aunt, sadly they are not with me any more - I'm the only one left. I'm in some of the photos and that's me at the top - I must have been about 18 months - 2 years. I've got lots of spaces left so I'll fill them with more photos.

I'd like to enter my box in the following challenges
Rhedds Creative Spirit - Altered Art Only
Altered Eclectics - Altered Art