Woodn't It Be Lovely?

Wooden't It Be Lovely?

Hi There!

Have you seen the little trays

of wooden embellishments

by Kaisercraft?  I'm rather

taken by the trays but keep

wondering whatever would I do

with the contents ...............

.............Enter The Craft Barn

Design Team ............... first off

here's Craftyfield with a tag:

"I hate thowing away any of my supplies 

and since I have full sheets of the 

wonderful Imagination Crafts Rice papers

 (have you seen the full range available

 at the Craft Barn?) I decided to use up

 the left overs from other projects 

in this one tag. 

They don't match but no worries, 

that's where sprays come in!

 I selected these pieces which I then 

glued on my gessoed tag with 

gel medium.

 I'm trying out my composition...

I added a bit of metallic shine with 

Imagination Crafts Starlight paint

 in Mint and a stencil.

Whilst I had the paint out I used it to 

colour match a piece of card. 

I also added the paint sparingly 

around the tag.

Now onto sprays to give the various papers 

a cohesive look. 

On the right these are 2 of the new colours 

and on the left one of the first released colour.

For those who are familiar with the 

older Prima Bloom sprays, the new ones 

present several differences:

 the bottle does not come ready mixed with water,

 the clear packaging has disappeared 

and finally

 the spray mechanism is different.

It's too early for me to give a definite

 review of the new spray bottles but at 

first sight they are as good as the previous ones, 

which, in my opinion, were fantastic.

 The spray is much finer and so doesn't 

make the paper so wet as to warp as much.

I used a brush to paint my embellishments, 

wooden flourishes from Kaisercrafts, Life's a beach 

also with the Color Bloom sprays

I kept two of the embellishments bare and 

matted on a roughly gessoed square of 

kraft cardstock. To knock back the white, 

I used Distress Oxide in Faded Jeans."

Supplies:

Rice papers:
Starlight paints: 
Pixelated stencil:
Kaisercraft Flourishes:
Distress Oxides: 

Thank you Craftyfield - that is a

gorgeous tag

Such a clever idea to use all

those bits we seem to

accumulate because they are

too nice to throw away......

.....actually, they are aren't they?!!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx