Birthday/Spring Explosion box

One of my supervisor's birthday's was the other day and she has been so excited when I show her videos of these boxes, that I knew I had to make one for her. I bought a paper pad at Walmart last week and I told myself I could only buy it, if I used it for this box. 

I didn't use as much as I thought I would. I love how springy it is.

Here's the box:

And the close-up photos. The outside/lid:

 I used a pink cardstock for the base. The rosette is actually the top of a wand someone gave me, I thought it looked perfect. The flower stickers are from Hollar.com. I used some cloud washi (JoAnn's) for the lip of the box. I lined the outside of the box with this bright cheery flower paper.
First layer:

 Sides:

 I used som scraps from cutting the boxes to layer up the sides. All the middle pieces are from the paper pad. The sentiment stickers are from Dollar Tree.

 This side has a butterfly sticker from the Dollar Tree.

 The butterfly is from the same sticker sheet as the words.

Second lid/box:

The stickers on the top are from a sticker pad from Walmart. I spelled out Happy Birthday around the lip with cut aparts from the paper pad. The sides are covered with striped paper from Hobby Lobby. 

 Sides:

 Again I used scraps from cutting the box layered with cut aparts from the paper pad.

  Third box/lid:

The "happy spring" is a chipboard sticker from Target. These flower stickers are from the same sticker sheet as the ones on the outside lid. I used some sun/cloud paper for the lip of the box and some flower paper from a stash for the sides.
Opened:

 This is the first time I've decorated the middle of the box.

 I wanted a "Happy Birthday" on this layer, so I broke off the top of this flower pic and hot glued it down. I added some tiny Eastery figurines to keep it standing up. The ribbon flowers, both pink ones, are from Hobby Lobby and the blue flowers are from a swap. I love how it turned out, I might start doing this for future boxes.
Sides:

 Again with using the paper scraps to layer up the sides. The stickers are actually from a sticker pad from Hobby Lobby. The 'good times' is from the sticker sheet that was used in the first layer.

 Love this sticker.

 The bottom sticker is from the same sticker pad as the stickers on top of the second lid.

LOVE how it all turned out and my supervisor was pretty happy with it as well. I like doing more seasonal versus birthday boxes. I'm kinda running out of birthday stuff even after stocking up every time I see it.

May Calendar Tag

It's time for May's calendar tag:

 I had a hard time making this one, I made it the last day before I had to send it. I used some pink cardstock for the background. I added the May sticker (Hobby Lobby) and the bicycle sticker (Dollar Tree) to the bottom. I had originally had the thin washi and the flower buttons for the bottom, but then I added the lace. I feel I should have taken off the washi, it looks a little sad with the lace underneath.
Here's what my partner sent me:

I love the flowers.

Here's the extras she sent with it:

Pink card

I signed up to make a pink monochromatic card for one of my groups. Here's what I made:

It's all pink. The butterflies are die cuts I got in a swap, I added some bling to create a little dimension.
Here's what my partner sent me:

I really like all the bling.

Uplifting explosion box

I found this cute little book at the bookstore in January, and thought it would work great on an explosion box.

And here's the box I created with it:

This is going to be a long post. Outside:

 I used a sheet of clear stickers (Dollar Tree), layered them on white cardstock and popped them up with foam tape for all the lids. I chose some inspirational washi tape for the lid sides.

 Basically, I just cut the pages down so they would fit the box, the book was about 4.5" square.

 Inside:

 This one I used a rose paper as the background.

 This one has a pink patterned paper for the background.

 This has another of the rose paper.

 Lid of second box.

 Inside of second box:

 This one has blue paper layered.

 Again with the blue paper.

 Lid of third box:

 This page has the sunflower, it looked so sad and empty when I just cut the quote down, so I added it back.

 Inside third box:

I think it's a but busy with the quotes on the outsides of the box and the insides. As you can see in the pictures the quotes on the outsides of the box are hard to read when the lid is on the box. I'd love to peel them off and make another box, but I don't think they'd survive. I'd planned to put something encouraging in the middle box and put it on my desk at work, so when I have a bad day, I can just look at it, but it hasn't made it there yet.