A little fun plaque

A little piece of mixed media for this one.  Once again I can't remember where all the bits came from, apart from the fact that I bought them at Farnborough, I do know the sentiment was a SamanthaK one.   The coffee cup was a die from my stash (at this point in time I can't remember who that was from either, and the packaging has gone missing - how do things suddenly disappear off your desk when you have just been using them ?)

The roses were made freehand from Hearty Clay, coloured with a smidgen of food colouring and then brushed with cake decorating dust.  The leaves were done with a cutter, and again coloured and dusted as before.  

The sentiment was glued on the plaque, then the whole thing painted with black gesso, and then overpainted with Pebeo blue/black iridescent paint and finally Pebeo gilding wax in  silver and gold was applied, and the coffee cup, which was cut from Kratt card, had the same applied

Bee Plaque

I painted this little ring plaque from Samantha K crafts  The solid ring was painted with Pentart Patina effect paints, and the cut out ring with Starlight paints.  (I had originally painted with normal acrylics, but didn't like it - so gave it a bit of sparkle.

I also felt it needed a back - so I got some grey board and painted it with a light blue acrylic and then spattered some other colours at it to give a speckled finish.   I felt it needed something in the middle, so for the moment I have just placed a little wooden heart in the centre, which I will eventually paint (possibly with Fantasy paints) or stamp an image or write a name on it.      Decision to be made at a later date.    I will also add some matching ribbon as a hanger.

Another storage unit

Another of the shelf/storage trays today.   I covered this one with tissue applied with heavy duty gel. I then painted it with gesso mixed with a pink IndigoBlu paint.  I then dry brushed IndigoBlu Fuchsia overt the inside whole thing,  as well as some crimson starlight paint over the outside.

I stamped various sentiments over the box in black Nuvo Ink.  The top edge was painted with the Fuchsia too.  Finally a little Starlight pearl was added with a finger to create some lighter areas around the outside.

MDF Box/Shelves

I haven't felt like crafting for a while I seemed to have lost my mojo since I had my eye op - no reason as I can see so much better, but I was supposed to take it easy and not do anything strenuous for at least four weeks - so no gardening etc so I seem to have gone into hibernation mode.for the past week and a half.  However I did apply this paper to this little box the other day, and yesterday I actually felt like doing something to it.

This little box could be stood on its end to make shelves, but I wanted it as a container.

Now pink is not a colour I craft with often, albeit I have a lot of pink in my house!  However, this was the first piece of paper in my stash of freebie papers that I cam across and decided to use that.  As you can see I "grunged it up a bit with inks - mainly Nuvo for the distressing and some gesso mixed with IndigoBlu Luscious powders (particularly for the inside) and then a bit applied at the end on the sides.  I also used a black Nuvo ink pad for the stamping, which was mainly done with IndigoBlu "stitched" stamps, but I also used some Imagination Crafts stencils too.

The flowers were coloured with Ecoline brush pens, and a some of the words enhanced with the same as well as the edge of the box

Here are some more views, and a close up of the inside, which was also stamped with more of the IndigoBlu stitched stamps.  I also created a "wood panel" effect using an old membership card and grey Nuvo ink which I then blended out with water.

Finally I have a little tray to keep some of the bottles on my desk tidy!

Watch this space for other versions of the trays as the kit contained two large trays and two small ones

Mini MDFhouses

How cute are these little houses frin Samantha K Crafts.    They arrived this morning, and I just had to make them up.   If you look closely you will see that som of them have little holes in the top, so they could be hung on a Christmas Tree.   Also apart from the one that looks like a pagoda, the roof lifts up so you could put a little sweet inside them.    They would also look good inside baubles or bell jars with some imitation trees, moss etc. (This may well be the route I go down).

I also have to decide whether to leave them as they are or do some colouring on them, and make them look like little "gingerbread" houses.