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New Tiny Shadowboxes (& Fairy Dust Boxes Tutorial AND Giveaway!)
Filed under Art Projects, Featured Artwork, Giveaways, Nichola Battilana, Shanna Shands, Tim Holtz, Vintage Vagabond Kit
Design Team Member Nichola Battilana has been busy doing the bidding of her bossy band of fairies and has created a variety of Fairy Dust Bagatelle Boxes.
The Bagatelle Boxes are so adorable! If you aren’t familiar with the term Bagatelle, it is a French word that means knick-knack, bauble, or trinket; so just imagine the possibilities of the items that could be showcased AND all of the different ways to do so! The boxes come in SIX different sizes:
– 1-1/2 x 3 Inches
– 2 x 2 Inches
– 2 x 3 Inches
– 1-1/2 x 4 Inches
– 3 x 3 Inches
– 3 x 4 Inches
“I had a few ideas but the fairies were demanding and I ended up with these fairy dust shrines. Don’t they look like they just came out of a fairy godmother’s cupboard?!”
They do, indeed; and magical as well! They’re fabulous!
The boxes can also accommodate various sized bottles and vials such as the 12 Tiny Glass Bottles, 24mm Glass Bottle with Cork, Mini Inkwell Bottles, 2 Glass Bottles w Round Lid – 23mm Tall or the 3cm Tall Bottle with Cork. See the 4 smallest box pages for tips on which bottles fit those boxes.
If you want to create your own bit of magic, Nichola has created a (New and On Sale!) Fairy Dust Collage Sheet with lots of tiny labels for tiny bottles.
Tea and crumpets are not required to check out the Fairy Dust Bagatelle supply list, but you may want to grab a cuppa to visit Nichola and view the video tutorial on her blog!
And, check below ’cause that crazy Leslie pulled a Giveaway package full of little bottles and a set of ALL 6 Bagatelle Boxes! (And she included some extra fairy-themed collage sheets, too.)
Next up in our month of Vintage Vagabond, we have Design Team Member Shanna Shands’ Safari Hut. Shanna used background papers and images from the Serengeti 6×6 Paper Pad and Out of Africa Collage Sheet. I love the leopard looking at the map… I wonder where he’s planning a vacation…
The kit this month can be used in so many different ways. The little suitcase (or steamer trunk) strapping and hardware from the Vintage Travel Tags & Hardware Collage Sheet inspired Shanna to create tiny little suitcases (that open like matchboxes) — and thankfully Shanna provides a tutorial for how she made them.
And those suitcases are really tiny! The scrapbook shown in the lower right of that photo is the smaller of the 2 sizes from the Tiny Vintage Scrapbook Collage Sheet. Shanna’s suitcase is just 1-1/2″ by 1-1/8″!
Here is the Supply List and see Shanna’s blog for more info and her tutorial! And I can’t wait to see the variety of projects during the rest of the month from the Design Team!
Hooray for the Fairy Dust Bottles Giveaway!
I started with these goodies from Nichola’s Fairy Dust Bagatelle Boxes (note: that’s a link to photos of ALL the supplies):
– ALL 6 Bagatelle Boxes
– Miniature Bookplates Die-Cut Set (New!)
– Fairy Dust Collage Sheet (New!)
– Candlestick Holder
– 12 Tiny Glass Bottles
– Mini Inkwell Bottles
Then I added a bunch more bottles and fairy collage sheets (linked here and some repeated with photos below):
– Fairy Labels and Ads Collage Sheet
– Green Fairies Collage Sheet
– Pink Fairies ATCs Collage Sheet
– Amber Even Tinier Bottles
– Squat Little Bottles
– Tiny Round Bottles
– 1-1/2 Inch Glass Bottles
– 3cm Tall Bottle with Cork
To enter the Fairy Dust Bottles Giveaway drawing all you have to do is leave a comment BELOW on this blog post TODAY OR TOMORROW (the deadline is 11:59 pm PST, FRIDAY, April 10, 2015)! AND tell me what you’d make with your Bagatelle Boxes. (You all had such great ideas for what to make from the Chipboard Steamer Trunk in the last Giveaway!)
Don’t forget to leave your (hello! correct) email address, too, so I can contact the winner; your email address does not need to be made public. Note: I’m offering free shipping, too, but only within the USA. International shipping will still apply.
Please be patient! Spammers try to post crap here a lot so comments are moderated. So if you don’t see your post in the comments section, be patient and check back in a few hours before re-posting it, please!
After midnight, I’ll randomly pick the winner (via Random.org). So check your mailbox on Sunday morning to see who won and for the next Giveaway and Newsletter!
Hey, who won the Vintage Vagabond Giveaway? That would be Linda Ellis! Please check your email for my message about getting your mailing address. (And Linda said “This travel theme is my cup of tea. I am definitely going to make Agatha Christie’s “Death on the Nile” from the trunk!” Wow! I hope you do and I’d love to see it when you’re done!)
I’ll make a small coffee (or tea) shelf with tiny coffee packets and a coffee pot.
How adorable – I love the bottles and the fairy dust.
My 6 year old granddaughter LOVES fairies…I would make a shadow box depicting the 12 months of the year…each one showcasing a fairy with a holiday theme for the month. A miniature pumpkin in a mini wagon for November, a mini bottle with a potion label for October, a mini rabbit for Easter, etc. She would love it!
I LOVE these! Because I have always moved so much, I think I would make these fairy packing boxes. I can just see little wrapping papers stuffed into boxes, with tiny jars and picture frames, etc. poking out, as if the fairies are packing or unpacking from a major move…..(after all, I assume even fairies look around and find a better bush to live under…..)
super sweet
Love these. I would use them to design mini collage boxes for wedding table markers.
How can you still come up with even more wonderful ideas. Fairies are my special treat to myself and all that goes with them. Hope you pick me. Thank you for such great ideas.
OMG I LOVE THESE I make collages all the time I would definitely make mini ones
Oooh… I am having several thoughts- LOVE THESE! one is to cut a canvas and affix the box in the cutout for a 3D effect and paint a landscape for the little mouse/gnome/fairy house. Such neat stuff- and I love the little bottles.
I’d make Fairy-World Portals….I think it would be so magickal and fun to gift these to some special friends!!!
I love the fairy dust boxes!!!I think I would make something similar.Its to cute.
I love the fairy dust boxes! I know someone who would adore this so I would make one for her!
Fairies, elves and water babies, oh my.
I would make fantasy and magical bottle collections!
I’d make tiny shrines to the crafting gods and goddesses. Maybe one to each type of medium? A shrine to the Goddess of Beads. One to the God of Crochet. One to the Muse of Stitchers. The list could go on forever!
Oh my goodness,these are so cute! I recently found tiny dragons at a local craft store,and thought they would be adorable in a bottle or cork topped vial,which would look equally adorable in these mini boxes!!! The bottle alone is so tiny,it needs something to house it! Thanks for the opportunity to enter for the giveaway,and thank you for the wonderful ideas!
OMG I would love to win this fabulous collection of faery and pixie treasures! I would definitely make a special faery charm/medicine cupboard from the various components.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Awesome! I love the size of the boxes.
Definitely would use these in our fairy garden!
Love the boxes.
ohh my
I adore anything in miniature and would love to make little shrine cabinets out of them… with feet made of beads or crystals… featuring our Blessed Mother
as always thank you for all the inspiration and the chance to win..xoxo
Ok… I gotta win this one lol!!! I LOVE FAE!!! Fairies are beautiful! If I won I would make a forest theme with each box would have a fairy home with a theme for each! Fingers crossed!!!! LOL pick me pick me!!!!
oh this would all be perfect with my Faeries here in my art room. I draw and paint the little Faeries and even have a Faerie garden. Perfect and y’all are the best for sharing xo
This I would love to get my hands on! This is a darling giveaway!
I have some tiny frozen charlotte dolls just begging to be made into fairies who will live in these beautiful homes I would make from this giveaway.
I would make mixed media collages/assemblages! I would probably use vintage photographs of people in the collages. I hope I win!
I want to make a tiny fairy garden for each season…or at least Summer with a mini swimming pool….Thanks for a chance!~kim
I just love love these fairy dust bottles. What fun!! Thanks for the chance to win this fabulous prize.
…maybe little secret doors with surprizes behind them?!
What an amazing collection! I would turn them into a vintage button and thimble mixed media group with old trim.
I would make art fairy dust for all my artist friends!!! Fun fun fun!
I love the fairy bottle idea so I would most likely do that. I would also make a Halloween themed box because that is my favorite holiday.
I love these cute boxes! I’d make a little shadowbox garden with the sweet fairies for a friend of mine who loves to garden. Thanks much for the chance to win your generous give away!
Why do you do this to me! So many ideas so little time. I think I would make them into table setting place cards. For at tea or birthday party!
I am drooling over this giveaway. I would more than likely use the boxes to create miniature scenes.
The artwork shown if jaw-dropping.
Another fabulous giveaway that I would love to win This fan amazing collection of fairy and pixie treasures I’ll be sure to put to good use!
My fairy garden could use some bagatelles. I would make little cabinets of fairy dust for my fairy dolls.
It just amazes me how you take ordinary objects and turn them into such magical things.
Send the Fairy Giveaway to me, please.
I love this…..I am a box freak…….love them.
I hadn’t heard of bagatelle boxes.. it’s a great way to display fairy dust bottles and other tiny fairy treasures.
Love Shanna’s safari hut! And I think those bagatelle boxes would become display cabinets for the Fen and Fae Travelling Emporium.
Loving the teeny tiny bottles.
Hope I have this giveaway all “BOTTLED UP”.
Thanks, Alpha Stamps for the chance to win.
Love the bagatelle boxes – would make a mini magic potion box.
I’d turn the boxes into fairy garden beds of sheet moss, paper flowers and hidden amongst toadstools- the tiny bottles of fairy dust. Thank you for the giveaway!
I would love to win this fairy kit! I would use the supplies to create store fronts for my fairy garden town that I made with my nieces!
Love all the little bottles and the boxes would be fun to create little fairy scenes with tiny bugs, mushrooms, and flowers.
Wonderful kit! I make Halloween art year round, but I am getting a little tired of spooky stuff. I think these boxes would be great for Halloween; I have already completed some lighted mason jars with different masks inside. I think the fairies would look great displayed with them.
Ahhhh fairies…they aren’t all good you know. I’d make a bad fairy box set to go in my Halloween scheme for October….could also do a nice little zombie am vampire fairies theme…come with me to the dark side where we have have chocolate fairy tea cakes made with real fairies….bwahahahaha
UGH I can’t stand it these are so stinkin’ CUTE! I hope my fairy god mother sprinkles random.org with my name on it!
I’d make tiny fairy “how to” books with all the bottles and supplies included. So cute.
I’d love to make some fairy boxes with my niece! 🙂
I love this giveaway-I would be thrilled to win. I would love to make something to hold all my little tiny miniature cat items.
I would make a series of tiny woodland scenes like the one with the mushrooms at the top of the page. Don’t eat the red mushrooms!
This fairy bottle set is officially my favorite giveaway package yet! I would use the boxes to create a street of shop front windows.
I made a miniature koi pond (with Koi!) out of clay. With the 3×4, I would have paper tole pagodas far off in the distant, a lovely geisha in contemplation at the pond-seated on a bench, with a seat made from a mini bookplate-surrounded by alpha stamps cherry blossom garland (of which I have much!) just to name a few. Ty for the chance to win, my creative friends!!
I love these little boxes! All kinds of ideas coming into my head!
What a great giveaway, I would have to make bottles of fairy dust for my fairies, and possibly an armoire to store them in.
Oh. Thank you for this giveaway. I want to make tiny wardrobes to Narnia.
I think I’ll do a green fairy apothecary and spa theme!
OMG SO cute! I would make them in to teeny tiny shrines for the fairy folk!
These are great! I would make a series of Halloween themed boxes such as black cats with potions and magical dust, to tombstones and skeletons with vials filled with magical dirt.
I have collected some nice little treasures over the years. The boxes would be lovely to display them. 🙂
I want to make a fantasy apothecary shop shadow box!
Oh so many fun and creative ideas are swirling around in my head…hope I win this giveaway, for sure!
I have of Great Niece who swears that fairies live at my house as I keep her up today on their comings and going oh the joy of having fairy boxes added to our magical moments what a wonderful and happy thought!
Just love the embellishments with this great giveaway.
Great boxes and I love love love fairies. I would put pictures of family with little fairies sprinkling dust on them to make my loved ones even more special then they already are.
What a spectacular kit, I believe in fae!
I adore this giveaway! Thank you for the opportunity to win. I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
It’s WONDERFUL!!! I would love to have this kit!
I always love to get your giveaway info. You have such inspiring ideas!
Ooh – love the fairy shrines!! I would make little altars for Beltane (May Day) to celebrate spring :o)
Love that kit
If I won, I would have to send the boxes to my sister so that she would have enough boxes to complete her 12 month holiday fairy themed shadow box. I’d love to see what she would come up with!
I would make mermaid fairy boxes using lovely blues and greens with a pinch of salmon and pink.
magic in one’s life is important! And this is magical! thank you
Fabulous giveaway! With all the bottles and lables and boxes I would make a Halloween apothecary!
I just love these cute ideas. I have a very healthy obsession with little boxes that started in 3rd grade and boxes scatter every room of my house. I always find all sorts of cool goodies in them. I definitely cant wait to make something with these!
Fairies, boxes and bottles in one giveaway?!?! Oh my! Be still my ever loving heart! Magical doesn’t begin to describe how marvelous this is! I would definitely be making lots of fairy themed Bagatelle boxes using lots and lots of bottles and fairy wings to add to my fairy land that I am planning to add to my Fairy garden! Then I would have to use the extra bottles to add even more fairy dust to the fairy garden! The possibilities are endless and magical! Wishing I had a magic wand to make these goodies appear on my doorstep right now! May Fairy dust light your way and all your wishes come true! macaskillbarbara@yahoo.com
I would make a beautiful cabinet to hold fairy dust. I would also make tiny shadow boxes full of fairy magic for my 5 granddaughters! Beautiful giveaway, thank you!
I would clip the bagatelle boxes together and make a storage organizer. Paint them with chalk paint.
I would just love to put these bagatelle curio boxes with the little vials (love the ink shaped vial)all fitted into a shadow box. The theme would be perfumes or a French perfume boutique & I would put in the gorgeous little perfume trial bottles that my great grandmother used to receive from the fancy department stores. Those were the days when they waited on you as if you were a perfect lady! Adding the new vials with hand made fake perfume labels to fill up the remaining spaces. Imagine all those bagatelles fully covered with small printed beautiful papers and teeny velvet bows wrapped around the bottle necks, and, and, well imagine!
Love the fairydust bottles! Awesome giveaway!
OMG! Great giveaway!! The Bagatelle boxes will fantastic fairy shadowboxes.
I would love to make some of the “fairy dust” holders. What a wonderful group!
Beautiful! Would be a great gift for my granddaughter.
boxes without topses-what fun
Love these sweet boxes….I think I would like to make them into circus style travel trailers…each would carry a different sweet animal and their special accessories, maybe I’d even cage a few trainers as well. 🙂
Super cute! My two year old daughter would go nuts for fairy dust bottles!! The ‘sleep fairy’ has been visiting and leaving sequins and presents! So much fun! I just need to find time to make them! Good luck everyone!
My fairies are demanding new houses!!!!!
These are adorable-I would make a mini mermaid scene.
So so cute!
Pixie dust forever! Thank you again!
Is the fairy dust lucky!!!
Oh my, so many boxes…so little time. Too many ideas to list. I LOVE THESE!!! Please and thank you.
I love these boxes. How is it that each new project/product is something I NEED to have? I just finished dressing a fairy doll, and would use the boxes to house her and some of her goodies.
Loved Nichola’s tutorial!I would use the boxes as the special place for the tooth fairy to keep the teeth she collected (from my granddaughters).In the little bottles with some fairy dust, of course.
I love miniatures, shadow boxes and fairies.
So much fun things in this giveaway. Who does not like fairies?
I would make fairy houses for my garden pots.
There are so many possibilities here.
I have been waiting to make a shadowbox piece called, “digging in the dirt,” which has to do with memory and it’s psychological impact.
Similarly, I’ve been waiting to make a shadowbox piece which includes a hanging light bulb. (The rounder bottles remind me of lightbulbs.)
As for the other boxes, I would use them to organize my studio until inspiration stuck.
The tiny bottles are wonderful. I would use them to contain… magic. 🙂 (“Bottled emotions” also come to mind.)
The frames I am likely to use as stencils. The thickness of the chipboard will hold its’ weight thus allowing them to be used repeatedly for the kinds of media I use in my work. (Which are rich and varied.) If I were forced to make a decision RIGHT-NOW about incorporating them into something permanent, I would use them as windows, probably in cityscapes.
I love how down to earth and hearty these items are. Because they’re such raw materials, I could really use them for anything. I love working with and on wood, which has the same sort of hearty structure as these boxes. This is a giveaway that I’d love to win. Please count me in.
Now I will finally be able to organize and display all those piles of fairy dust that have been accumulating!
I love the fairy boxes. What fun!
I would love to do a Cabinet of Curiosities. Maybe creating with little mini scientific and biologic treasures. That would be really fun.
Adorable! Tiny Fairy dioramas!
Oh, I would make fairy dioramas, of course 🙂
Oh my what a lovely package of fairy goodies!
For my granddaughter’s 16th birthday, I am in the process of making one regular size cigar box into a standing clock and a small cigar box (4×5″) to stand in front of the larger box/clock on which to seat the “Time Flies” art doll I have made from Barbara Willis’ pattern. Both boxes will open and have shelves and smaller boxes in them. I hope she will use it to store her small treasures. Thanks for the chance to win some of your great goodies.
I would love to win this one ! I would make fairy scenes and scatter the bottles around as if the fairies were busy collecting the dust it would be so magical!!!! So fun !!
I <3 these so much. I would love to make a mini study filled with books bottles and clutter for fairies or borrowers.
I am making a fairy garden and home that these would be perfect in. Hope I win!
This is a great package, perfect for shrines!
Wonderful giveaway!
Love love love these darling little boxes. If I won (but I probably won’t) I think I’d have to try a steam punk flavored design.
i sweat glitter but I love fairy dust!
I love the bagatelle boxes. I’d make vignettes sculpting paper flowers and insects.
I just love the tiny bottles…..luv potions come to mind!
OMGosh how fun!! I would absolutely make two or three of these along with tiny fairies to sit in with the special bottles of fairy dust! I love this giveaway!
I love fairies! I would make a fairy shadowbox for my desk so I could enjoy it all day long!
the fairy dust bottles are adorable! I think I will make fairy dust bottles for my daughters-for sleeping dust to help them when they can’t fall asleep at night!
I love fairies! I’m making a moss covered fairy garden outside with the little bench you have. I would make make little fairy scenes. Each scene featuring a different fairy and different flowers that they would be tending. I would paint them with light chalk paint and create a small “pond” in the longer box with Lilly pads and little frogs hopping off in mid air.
Love those little bottles and all your miniature supplies.
Oh the possibilities are endless! I think I would make an assemblage scene of curiosities!
My sister’s birthday is coming up and she loves fairies. I’d love to make her a fairy bagatelle box!
What a gorgeous assortment of goodies! I would love to make a tiny Tinkerbelle display for my niece, who adores Peter Pan.
hmmm. Think I’d make the mad hatters tea party table in the woods!!!!
Wonderful new projects and a great giveaway, thank you so much!
Just wonderful and magical. My fairies would love all those goodies.
Who doesn’t love fairies?? Thanks for the chance to win this great giveaway!!
I would put all the boxes together and make a fairy store filled with all the little things fairies love and close it with a garden gate. What fun.
Love these! My first thought for projects would was mini Halloween shadow boxes for my sister. It’s her favorite holiday and they’d fit in all the small spots among her other decorations.
So many wonderful possibilities!!!
I have some teeny tiny gnomes that are about an inch tall. These would make wonderful tiny shadowboxes!
What a fun giveaway!
The tiny suitcases are so neat. I think I’d arrange some Spring-y dried flowers in the box with a gate in front.
I’m thinking tiny little libraries with tiny books.
I love these boxes. I would use them to make mini shadowboxes.
Lovely!
I would make shadowboxes