Happiness was Born a Twin!

Hello and Welcome to Magpieheaven! Today I've been packing the money-boxes I created for our neighbours, Loretta and Scott, who are expecting twins later this month. I wanted a quote about twins and I remembered this lovely line from Byron's 'Don Juan', which took me right back to my 'A' level English when I fell in love with poetry.

 I found just the basket I was looking for and made a little nest of tissue for the boxes.

Now it was time to create two little tags for the sides of the basket. I sprayed two small tags with diluted Hey Pesto and Inky Pool Frescos.

I then spritzed three shades of Distress Inks: Peacock Feathers, Broken China and Evergreen Bough on my craft mat. I dipped a doily stencil by Rebekah Meier into the spritzed ink and then pressed it into the tags.

Using jet black Archival ink, I stamped two of the little characters from Sandra Evertson's 'Petite Whimsies' and the butterfly from Stampington's 'Butterfly Girl' onto the tags.

I highlighted the tags with a white pen and Inktense pencils. I added a little sun charm to each tag, painting it with Antarctic Fresco and then touching with a little Sapphire Treasure Gold.

Here is the reverse side of the tags. Lynne Perrella's sun motif is echoed on the ribbons and I used PaperArtsy's Mini alphabet stamp on the background too.

Copper and Blue Frantage brings a little sparkle to the edges!

This gift for the twins is a complete surprise, as Scott and Loretta have no idea that I've been working on these. I do hope that they will be happy with the Daydream Boxes. The twins could not have chosen two lovelier parents, so I have no doubt of the wisdom of Lord Byron's words in this case, even though he has a reputation for being 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know.' If there's one thing he knew about, it was love and there will be no shortage of that in the twins' lives, I'm sure.

Thank you so much for dropping by Magpieheaven today. May your week be full of sharing and of joy!