a parchment craft gift box

I had never tried parchment craft before - in fact, I'd never even heard of it! At Intr@net - this year's North East England international camp - however, there were workshops on the craft for the girls and (in the evenings) special ones for Guiders, so naturally I went along to see what it was all about.
My first few efforts ended up in the bin, but I eventually produced the small gift box shown on the left. It is made of plain parchment and is uncoloured, the white colour being produced by the embossing technique. The image is the Intr@net camp logo, featuring the Guide trefoil surrounding a picture of one of the Bars (gateways) in York's walls.

The design on card on the right is more complex in execution than that the box : it involved drawing the outline of the design in Indian ink with a fine-nibbed "dip in" pen (almost a lost art in itself!) before colouring it in on the reverse. It was then embossed: some areas are raised and some sunk in - unfortunately this does not show properly in this photograph.

The finished image was then cut to size and mounted on coloured card selected to show the design to the best advantage, and a paper insert stuck in for the greeting or message.