Bag It

Bag It

Hallo everyone!

Today's project would make

a really special gift bag and

here is Louise Thomson to

tell you how she made it

"Start by applying a couple of coats of the 

base colour – Green Apple So Soft fabric paint, 

to a canvas wine bottle bag. 

I wanted a fairly natural look with rough edges 

and plenty of the canvas still showing

Mix the green apple paint with a tiny bit of 

‘So Soft’ tangerine to get a terracotta colour 

and apply through a stencil. 

I used two different designs of the same 

Kaisercraft mini mix stencil

Once completely dry, stamp the Honey Doo 

Floral Chaos design repeatedly on to the canvas. 

My ink pad was running low and I ended up 

re – stamping the image several times.

 I thought it was going to be a disaster and 

need ditching but I should have had faith – 

there is no project that can’t be rescued!

Using tangerine and dark burgundy So Soft paints, 

paint in the flower heads, mixing them to create a variety of tones

Once you are happy with the paint and 

have allowed it to dry, go over the stems in a 

sakura gelly roll pen. 

Add in dots of bisque liquid pearls around the 

stems and also to add centres to the flowers

Finally, bag a bottle!

 I tied the bag with the hessian style chord provided

 and added three coordinating paper flowers 

which rather handily were in a Craft Barn 

goody box I purchased recently!"

Materials used-

Canvas bottle bag

So soft paints in green apple, tangerine and dark burgundy

Kaisercraft 12x12 mini mix stencil

Paint brush

Honey doo floral chaos stamp

Staz on ink – Jet Black

Sakura gelly roll pen – metallic emerald

Liquid pearl - Bisque

Paper flowers (from stash)

Thank you Louise - a super project.

Didn't I tell you it would be special?

I'm sure you agree this is a beautiful

way of presenting a bottle be it a

full bodied red or a bottle of blackcurrant juice!

The So Soft paints, by DecoArt, are really nice to 

use too and come in a good range of colours

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Bottled Up and Glazed Over

Bottled Up and Glazed Over

Hi Everyone!

Trust you are feeling on

top of the world...........

Well, its February - I have to

give you some hope......

Now if you've been whisked

off to Paris (or anywhere come 

to that) for a romantic 

Valentine's weekend then here

is the perfect reminder from

Angela Radford:

"I started this project with a smooth, tall bottle. 

Ensure this is thoroughly clean before starting 

as it will take the glaze better.

Now we can start to add the glaze by dabbing it on 

with a sponge using your choice of colours.

I chose to use these three but obviously the choice is up to you.

Next I used a Tim Holtz stamp and Stazon ink

 to apply detail to the bottle. 

The easy way to do this is to lay the stamp firmly 

on a craft mat and roll the bottle over it firmly. 

This is where the smooth bottle comes 

into it's own as it works well on the stamp

Here you can see the first stamping produced

Now I added more colour and continued with the stamping

And here is the finished bottle. 

I used more Tim Holtz stamps and also used some 

to create the labels on shrink plastic

The flowers are from my stash

Hope you enjoyed this.

Happy Crafting

Angela xXx"

Products used:

Stazon Studio Glaze.

Stazon Ink.

Sponge smoothies.

Shrink Plastic.

Tim Holtz Stamps.

Thank you very much Angela, 

I think we all enjoyed the

transformation from plain

bottle to a treasure.....

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Bottled Up and Glazed Over

Bottled Up and Glazed Over

Hi There!

Today we have an idea 

from Helen Chilton to

share with you.

I think you will love this

and will be itching to

make it yourself......

Read on..........

"This time I'm looking at StazOn Glazes and inkpads, 

so I've decorated a sort of jam jar drinking mug.

Stamp onto tissue paper with the scalloped border 

from PaperArtsy Tracey Scott set ETS01 

and then paint in with the 

StazOn glazes Cactus Green and Blue Hawaii.

Then cut out when dry.

Next, using StazOn Jet Black, stamp directly onto the glass. 

Bend the stamp round the slight curve to get the full image

 Start to paint in with the Claret Glaze.

Add in some Blue Hawaii and Cactus Green.

Stick the tissue border to the base using a decoupage glue.

 Decorate the jar and the flowers with extra dots"

Materials used:

PaperArtsy Stamps: Tracey Scott ETS01
StazOn Glazes: Cactus Green, Blue Hawaii and Claret
StazOn inkpad: Jet Black
White tissue paper

Fabulous project Helen

thank you

Hmm... I have a couple of jars in lurking

in the kitchen cupboards that could be

given this treatment......................

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Bottled Up and Glazed Over

Bottled Up and Glazed Over

Hey there!

Thought I'd add another greeting

to my repertoire haha!

Did you all get loads of Valentine

Cards yesterday?  Roses?  Chocs?

Oh well, let us see what fun

Karen Gist has in store for us...

I have used an empty Whisky bottle for my project. 

First cover the bottle with tissue paper using Gel Medium. 

Don't worry about wrinkles as its all part of the look.

Cut rough squares big enough to stamp flowers onto 

and some strips for the hair and paint using a mix of Fresco Paints. 

I used Spanish Mulberry, Lavender, Smoked Paprika and Beach Hut. 

To make the tissue paper opaque when glued onto the bottle 

            I painted the reverses in Chalk.

Paint the neck of the bottle in Sand and the rest in Blue Oyster. 

Stamp the flowers from PaperArtsy 

Eclectica ELB26 and EKC03 and cut out. 

Attach to the bottle as shown using Matte Medium. 

Add a litte sparkle using PaperArtsy Frosting Glaze.

 Paint some more tissue in Smoked Paprika as before 

and stamp the large flower head from Eclectica ELB16. 

Cut out and snip away some of the petals as shown 

and cover with Frosted Glaze. 

I hand drew the face and painted it using the same colours as before 

but you could always use a stamped image or a magazine face instead.

Glue the pteal strips to the bottle as shown. 

Glue the face near the top of the bottle. 

To make the hair cover the painted strips with Glaze and twist as it dries. 

Glue these inside the top of the bottle. 

Add some more petals to give a 'halo' sort of effect. 

Add some beads as shown.

Supplies:

Tissue Paper

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paint & Glazes

PaperArtsy Stamps

Stazon Ink

Gel Medium

Love it Karen!  Thank you

for such a fun project.

Think I'll be smiling all day now

'Til tomorrow

Mickie xx