I love a good excuse to use a set of tiny lights to create a gorgeous, lit project!

Each first Friday of the month, Prima Marketing has a "color day." And while I'm getting to the party a little late, this month's color was gold. I knew I wanted to make a golden shrine that was regal enough for a queen. 

The base of this project is made from half of a Prima Planner box! I then used chipboard to create the "cover." Inside and outside I used a stencil, with 3D gloss gel to create texture. I then painted it with a mix of lemon peel and snow white impasto paints. Over the top of that, I added some Distress Ink Spray in fossilized amber. Then to add shimmer and shine, I used watered down acrylic paste in gold rush and a watered down brass patina effect paste. 

I did the same with some faux sides that I created for the inside of the box. This would allow me to hide some of the wiring from the tiny lights and bring them in a bit closer to the center of the box. It also allowed me a wider surface that I could later glue the cover onto, giving it more stability. This is because I created a U-shape with the pieces, glueing it to the bottom and then having a "table" on each side for the top to go onto. Prior to glueing in the pieces, I punched holes in the back and through one of the faux sides. I inserted the tiny lights and then glued them into place with a hot glue gun. 

I painted the cut out from the cover plum and mounted it inside using some empty ribbon spools and foam adhesive. I painted a piece of chipboard using the same golden colors and glued it to the center of the purple piece. I then added a mould covered in the plum acrylic paint and gold wax. On top of that, I added flowers from several collections, a memory hardware crown, memory hardware pearls and vintage melange along with some crystals from Pinkfresh and nests of gold thread. 

I then glued down the cover of the box and then trimmed the opening in a vintage gold colored embroidered trim. I added some resin flourishes colored with Distress Spray and gold wax, dabbing and rubbing off the excess. Then I added more flowers, gems and pearls. I also added some white gesso to the flowers and added some clear glitter. 

To finish off the sides and back of the box, I used some My Mind's Eye papers in my stash with a deep golden yellow color. I also used it to create a little paper holder for the battery pack of the tiny lights. I used Scrapbook.com's 1/4" adhesive to glue all of these down so there wouldn't be any warping or wrinkling of the paper. 

I hope you enjoyed this mixed media project! Until next time, happy crafting!

Adrienne

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