Exploding Box

Warning very picture heavy post.....

Ok so every year I have to top the card I made the year before but this year I was totally stumped, how do you top a twisted easel, well with an exploding box of course lol.

I followed a tutorial from Sazzle her directions and pictures helped make this a fairly easy if time consuming make.

I knew I wanted a super hero/marvel comic style but how to translate that was the question. I found a fantastic digi kit that provided all the elements, papers, city scape and words all in one place the Masked Marvels kit by Julie Billingsley at Sweet Shoppe. Next I needed a focal image for the middle layer and I remembered the retro digi stamps from Kenny k, I framed these with the frame in the digi kit.

I have taken lots of pictures but wish I had photographed the outer layer before attaching the middle one as you can't really see it in the pictures. I did however take the middle layer pictures before attaching the last layer.

You can't see easily that the cityscape matches the on both sides of the acetate or that I added the firework paper to the back of the middle layer to give a background to the buildings.

I had so much fun with this but can't see me making another one for quite some time lol.

Outside of the box

Middle layer

Inner layer with bouncy number

Ingredients:
Cardstock: Black (from Jane), Acetate (from Tracy)
Red: "Real red" Stampin up, Blue: "Pacific Blue" stampin up, Yellow: "Harvest Gold" Papertrey Ink - all from the snippet folders
Papers and embellishments: "Masked marvels" Julie Billingsley at Sweet Shoppe Designs
Images: "Smart Alec" and "Big Surprise" Kenny K
Numbers: Billionaire cartridge on cricut

Chalenges: Snippet Playground

Thanks for looking and any comments you may leave