Recycled Alabaster Box

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a recycled Hills Bros. Cappuccino French Vanilla coffee container that I turned into an Alabaster box (to keep money in for our church's missions program) using packing from a Chewy order and some wood block stamps I received last year from a friend who had to downsize her stamp collection while moving across the county.  

I started out by adhering the paper packing to my coffee container using 5/8" Scor-Tape.  I then stamped my church image (Design Objectives) and both sayings (Believe - Hero Arts) (John 3:16 Printworks) onto scrap vanilla card stock in memento tuxedo black before coloring the church using copic markers.  Once the coloring was finished, I stippled Tim Holtz stormy sky lightly around the church using my Picket Fence blending brushes before layering it, and my John 3:16 panel, to scrap espresso card stock before adding copper brads to both.  I then adhered both panels to the coffee container using glue dots.  I now die cut two crosses using a Spellbinders Shapeability Cross die I've had for years and only used once or twice.  After adhering the crosses to the side panels using mini glue dots, I added copper ice stickles to the adhered crosses as my final embellishment.  I then cut a slit for the money in the plastic top of my new alabaster box to finish it up.  I've included pictures of all four sides:

both of the cross side panels are identical

Challenges entered:

Snippets Playground #463 - Use Those Snippets (recycled paper, scrap card stock used)

Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone Sept 2023 - Anything Goes No Cards (alabaster box)

Word Art Wednesday Wks 613 to 614 - Anything Goes Uplifting (Believe, John 3:16)

Crafty Addicts #5 - Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart #5 - Anything Goes No Cards (alabaster box)

Never Before Used Schtuff #54 - Use Your NBUS (stamps)

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day!

Stamps: Printworks; Design Objectives; Hero Arts

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky

Card Stock: Scraps

Accessories: Chewy Packing Paper, Big Shot, Copic Markers, Spellbinders Cross Dies, Copper Ice Stickles, Brads, Glue Dots