Hearts and Flowers

Hearts and Flowers

Hallo Everyone!

Finished all those lovely Christmas

goodies?  The chocs, the cakes,

the biscuits?.................

Wardrobe Gremlins shrunk

your clothes?

...........Time for the New Year Diet

then................Good Luck

Here is Louise Thomson with a

beautiful card to take your mind

off the D word! ......

I started by blending spun sugar distress ink 

all over some smooth finish white card and then added

 highlights using the candied apple ink.

I stamped the Honeydoo Floral Corner Flourish three times 

to create a cascade effect across the page.

In the background I stamped parts of the stamp again

in spun sugar to create a light textured look. 

I then painted the flowers using Fresco Finish paints

 in Pixie dust and Nougat.

I stamped the image again, then painted 

and cut out the flowers. 

Using the Nougat Fresco Finish paint I added little hearts 

around the border, then joined them up using 

a white gelly roll pen.

I inked up a spare bit of smooth finish card 

using the same inks as before. 

Using the gelly roll pen I added a message and doodled border.

Finally I assembled everything and added 

wink of stella to the flowers for a bit of shimmer.

Products used;

Distress inks – Spun sugar and candied apple

Honeydoo floral corner flourish stamp

Fresco paints – Pixie dust and Nougat

White smooth finish card

Double sided tape

Wink of Stella

Sakura gelly roll pen

Beautiful card Louise and you have

managed to show us the shimmer you

get from the Wink of Stella ...... lovely!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Dimensional

Dimensional

Today we have Dawn Heald  to 

show us a beautiful bowl she has created:

I've made a shaped button bowl and I'll be honest it was meant to be a flower bowl. However, with a slip of my scissors and a couple plasters later, it changed. I'm overall pleased as these make handy little bowls easy to get at the contents.

You can make papier mache shapes using a variety of different sturdy objects. Just wrap in plastic wrap/cling film first to prevent the paper sticking to your objectives.

To make this project.

Choose object shape to use as a Mold. Cover with cling film first to prevent the paper sticking to your object. Tear small pieces of book pages and glue them all over your object. Build up as many layers as you like depending on how thick you want it. Leave to dry naturally.

Then remove object from the papier mache. You may need to cut down it to prise is off. If so simply use small pieces of book pages and glue back together. Dry and then trim and neaten edges to get shape you want. Neaten further by sanding and applying glue on very edge.

Paint all over with watered down white gesso

When dry apply colour all over using Alchemy Wax using sponge and or paintbrush.

Now make some embellishments with Shell Mold and paper clay, painted with Starlight Paint and Pink Alchemy Wax. Make some little fishes by Stamping Fish stamps onto Frosted shrink plastic, die cut, colour with clear sparkle pen and shrink with heat tool.

Back to the bowl, sponge edges and stamp the little asterisks all over the outside with Black Stazon Ink. Then add dots of White PVA glue all around outside. Dry.

Stick embellishments around outside of bowl. Add further decoration with buttons and Peacock Stickles.

The finished bowl from all angles:

Products used: 

Imagination Crafts Alchemy Wax: Peridot, Japanese Jade, Cobalt, Pink Tulip 

Imagination Crafts Starlights Metallic Paint: Pearl, Orange Oxidized 

Heartfelt Creations Under The Sea Stamps, 

Heartfelt Creations Under The Sea Die set 

PaperArtsy Lin Brown stamps ELB15

Woodware Seashells Mold 

Paper Clay 

Polyshrink Shrink Plastic: Sampler Pack 

Cosmic Shimmer White PVA Glue 

Stickles Glitter Glue: Peacock 

Stazon Ink Pad: Jet Black 

White Gesso

Multi matte medium

Wink of Stella clear pen

Thank you Dawn for showing us how to go about
making these beautiful bowls.


That's all for today folks!!

Mickie xx