A Seasonal Box Bag

It's time for the November challenge over at Rhedd's Creative Spirit as always the theme is anything goes, recycled,mixed media,altered art only......strictly no papercrafts

My design team project for the November Challenge was to altered this wooden box bag....I had bought a set of two and I fell in love with them....this is the larger of the bags.

The wood was a tad rough around the edges,so I removed the handles and then sanded it all over before sealing with gesso.
I covered all sides of the bag with christmas themed music paper, and distressed all the edges with walnut stain ink.

I dabbed glittery texture paste all over the bag and set it aside to dry....in the mean time I created the topper using this fabulous stamp from Artistic Oupost...

I stamped the image then matted it on some dark brown card...

I still had some scraps of vintage cotton lace from an old collar and used that along with some muslin, burlap and silver mesh.

I also gessoed and then added the glittery texture paste to  the mdf word "Joy" 

To finish the box bag I added all the elements, then the ribbon handles, tying some silver mesh as a bow to one side....

So do pop over to Rhedd's Creative Spirit if you fancy an altered art/mixed media challenge, or just to look at the design team creations...they are well worth a visit.