A few weeks back my friend Jackie gave me some toolboxes.

Well, I’m collectively calling them toolboxes, but really there were a couple of toolboxes, a tackle box and even a lunchbox.

The outside of the lunchbox was black, and when I opened it up I found that the inside was a shiny gold.  So with that combo in mind, I decided to take some inspiration from the books that I recently painted …

After giving it a good wash, I touched up the interior color with a fresh coat of Rust-Oleum Metallic Gold spray paint.

Then I freshened up the exterior with a coat of Dixie Belle’s Caviar.  Once dry, I pulled out the I.O.D. Wilde Bloemen transfers and started adding florals to the front of the lunchbox.

Once those were all in place, I added some gold typography from the I.O.D. Étiquettes transfer.

To play up the gold a bit more, I used some of Dixie Belle’s Gilding Wax in Gold on the latches (after having painted them with Caviar along with the rest of the lunchbox).

I followed all of that up with some of DB’s Big Mama’s Butta as a top coat.  I found that the Big Mama’s started removing a bit of that Gilding Wax though.  I’m not sure if that was because I didn’t wait long enough for the Gilding Wax to harden, or if the Butta and Gilding Wax aren’t compatible.  To be on the safe side, perhaps adding Gilding Wax last would be the way to go in the future.

Either way, the problem would be easy enough to solve by adding more Gilding Wax to the latches.  But I think I kind of like the worn look that resulted so I’m leaving them this way.

They say that all that glitters is not gold, but in this case it is … well, shiny metallic gold anyway.

What do you think?  Leave a comment and let me know.