If I Had't Posted Yesterday ...

... I would have shown you the box lid I made for my Promarkers but I had to schedule it for today instead..

Do you remember me making a box - 9th May I blogged it - from two Felix boxes?  You can see it here.

Well, yesterday I made a lid for it.  Here is is with it's lid on - so now I can store it on its side.

You can just see the "cheat sheet" I typed up with some notes from Vix's class at Vicky Stampers, which I found invaluable, stuck on the front.  After that I wanted to play with my Promarkers, but didn't have much time with the blog hop prep  (click on the link to go directly to the beginning if you haven't already - you have until and including the 23rd to enter by going around all six blogs starting here) but now I am ready to rumble.  Watch out for some "cute" cards!

I didn't show you in any detail the inside of the box so here goes

Pens all out so you can see the dividers and just how simple they are. I varied the widths according to the number of Promarkers I had in each colour family.  Don't envisage me buying a lot more of these as I am now into Pan Pastels (have you seen the great price of them at Oyster Stamps - five, yes, five for £20 and postage only £1)

Pens in

On the other side I have a compartment for "skintones" and one for "hair" so I can easily access them.

The only trouble is, I bought a dozen of those "fine" nibs for them and now they reside in a plastic box at the side - got to get my 'paper engineer hat' on now and think of a way to incorporate a pouch of some kind on the side.  Watch this space!

Hope this inspires you to make one of these yourself - a good morning of crafting and some cat food boxes, paper, sticky tape and you are good to go.  Of course, it would be quicker if you just put some old emulsion paint on, or gesso and then used up those old acrylics. Enjoy!