Treasure boxes

Been working on some presents the last couple of days. Saw a neat project on an episode of the Carol Duval show so I took the basic idea and ran with it. I've made four of these little treasure boxes .. but only took pictures of three since two are the same.

These didn't take long to make. I timed it today thinking these might be good craft fair items, they only took 50 minutes to make - not counting drying time, etc. So that's not too bad. They begin with inexpensive plain wooden boxes I bought at the craft store, then I painted the outside black, and the inside in a color that matched the papers used on the outside. I did various faux paint treatments on all the boxes with lumiere paints, they look much prettier in person. Then stamped the faces and used my new big square punch to get the portion of the image I wanted to use. I've never used one of those punches before and I really like it. Then used the rotary cutter to cut the white background squares and my thumb. How I managed to cut myself on the hand that was HOLDING the cutter I don't know. You know how you are supposed to put pressure on a cut to make it stop bleeding? I figured if I kept cutting while pressing on the rotary cutter with my thumb that would be the same thing. Thought it was working well until I put the cutter down and both it and my thumb were covered in blood. But the good news is that I didn't get any blood on my work! So where was I? Oh, okay, after making three boxes I figured out that it's much faster to put all the little squares through my Xyron machine instead of painting glue on each piece. So all the paper pieces are on the box and I gave everything a coat of Paper Glaze. Which, after a special trip into town to buy it, I found out is the same thing as Plaid's Dimensional Magic, which I already had. Guess I won't run out of the stuff. The Paper Glaze works great as glue too - that's what I used to stick the jewels on the lid. The feet are little wood pieces I had in my stash - just painted them and glued them on.

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The colors show up better in this photo of the lids.
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My husband thinks I could get $5.00 for them. I couldn't see selling them for less than $15.00. But they are kind of small - only 3 1/4" tall and about 4 1/2" in width. What do you think?