Altered Shabby Chic Bird House

Hello everyone!
Happy Sunday to you all!
Today I am sharing an altered bird house which I have created first time:) as an DT post for Catchy Challenges and the theme is anything goes!
First of all you can take any size of recycle box.

 I cut off the one side part of it as shown in the picture.

Then I took a wedding invitation card, I have a lot of scraps in my stash. Measure according to your box width and height and then same measure it again from the top. Now for the hut shape I measured 2'' panel from the top and created a middle point and draw a triangle shape and for the flap I measured 0.7" and cut it now.

  Now paste both the panels.

 Traced this house template on the PP. Covered it with patterned paper from each and every side as shown in the picture. I cut a through a circle at one side to create a window for the bird. I love these  papers and it coordinated so well.

 I made a flap as the part of roof for the bird house. I cant really give precise measurements as it depends on the size of your box.

Now the fun part begin. Decorate your bird house. I decorated with some laces, pearled wire, leaf borders(distressed them), jute lace, borders, handmade flowers and some are from my stash. I distressed the circle edge and some of my rose flowers too.
This beautiful altered birdhouse would be a lovely décor item in any house. Use it to decorate your desk, use it as a special pencil holder, or just give it away as a piece of art.

 This is the front side.

 To open the box I added a flower, lace, pink colored satin ribbon.

I made my own nest out of packaging material and gesso it to create some interest.

 Another view:

 Here is the inside:

 There is a birthday tag as my daughters birthday in this week, so I gifted it to my daughter:). Hope she will like it! As she is not at home, went for further studies at Chennai. Don’t you think this would make just the sweetest handmade gift?  I absolutely adore it!

So guys, I hope you really enjoyed the tutorial!

I hope you all have a fantastic day and thanks so much for stopping by!

 

Supplies used:

12"x12"Happy Birthday Paper pack from Enogreeting

Distress inks: Vintage photo, Picked Raspberry, Dried Marigold

Border Carnlvale from Cheery lynn Designs(won the gift voucher recently , Thanks a lot!)

Circle die from We R Memory Keepers

Artists Gesso from Camel 

Jef puches for making roses

 

I would like to enter my creation in following challenges:

http://blog.kraftzone.in/2015/04/challenge-14-altered-art.html?m=1

http://de-egel.blogspot.in/ 

http://beyondgrey.blogspot.in/

http://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.in/

http://mixedmediaworld.blogspot.in/

http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/march-challenge-spring-colours.html 

http://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.in/- Butterfly paper and nest is in the corner.

http://www.addalittledazzle.com/dazzling-diva-challenge-69/

http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.in/

http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.in/-lots of scraps uses here

http://gloriadesignschallenge.blogspot.in/

http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/search?updated-max=2015-03-31T03:00:00-07:00&max-results=7

http://modsquadchallenge.blogspot.in/2015/04/tick-tack-toe.html-Flowers or butterflies+die cut or punch+dimension

http://cheerylynndesigns.blogspot.in/2015/04/cheery-lynn-designs-challenge-179.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+CheeryLynnDesignsBlog+(Cheery+Lynn+Designs+Blog)#

http://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.in/

http://www.scrapyland-blog.com/

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/#

http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.in/

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.in/

http://cuttlebugmania.blogspot.in/

http://dianamlarson.blogspot.in/search?updated-max=2015-04-04T18:23:00-07:00&max-results=2

http://blog.kraftzone.in/

http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.in/

http://littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/little-claire-monthly-challenge-55.html

http://nordsalten-hobbyklubb.blogspot.in/

http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.in/#-I love all spring colors, beautiful blooms, chirping birds, making nests and playing in fun birdhouse!

http://die-cut-divas.blogspot.in/2015/04/in-garden.html