Woven Easter Basket – Easy Step by Step.

Lady Pattern Paper
If you have kids around Easter than you might want to keep them busy right? Well today we have a super simple woven Easter basket that the kids can help you make for your Easter table. Fill them with treats and chocolates and add a name tag. 
Head on over to the Lady Pattern Paper blog for the full step x step.
how's your preparation for the Easter hunt going?

Pop Painted flowers | Happiness card.

Chiswick
On the Chiswick blog I am sharing how I incorporate my POP paint into my daily crafting life. Yes! it’s definitely not just for painting furniture, but for painting anything that needs a bit of colour. I made this quick card and altered my chipboard word as well as some flowers to make this vibrant and stunning card.
For the base of my card I used a coloured baby wipe – sharing more on this technique in an upcoming article. I then used my POP paint in the colour “Buttery” to add some colour to my elements to make them pop and stand out against the vibrant pink background.
  Step 1 – Paint your chipboard word or shape using a small paint brush and POP Paint.
I painted mine with 2 layers for good coverage on my grey chipboard.
Leave it to dry well and then add a layer of glaze for a shiny beautiful finish.
 step 2 – Mist a small amount of water in the lid of your paint.
Mix the paint and the water for a more liquidy paint, then paint white flowers with a single layer of paint to change the colour. The POP paint gives a nice solid coverage on the white flowers and it looks amazing.
 Adhere the chipboard word to your card base and secure with 3 sewn stitches in purple.
Adhere the flowers and there you have a really stunning quick and easy card using your POP Paint.
So POP paint really can be used for anything and everything from painting furniture to painting craft supplies and altering
things that need to be updated.
Have you found your favourite colour in the range yet?
Until later this week when I will be back with some POP inspiration – happy painting!

POP Paint – recycled jar lids.

Chiswick
I love it when you have too many ideas and not enough time – on many levels I hate it too, but when you actually get to do them it is amazing. This was the case with these POP painted recycled jar lids. I have been holding onto pretty empty bottles for ages, and yes they do tend to get packed away and hoarded, but when I use them they find a new loving home and become totally functional.
I painted the lids and then added pretty store bought handles to finish them off and make them pretty.
 
Step 1 – Paint the lids in two layers of POP paint. I used 3 different colours for my 3 jars.
Step 2 – Leave the lids to dry and then drill a small hole in the center of each lid.
Step 3 – Add a layer of grey wax using a stipple brush.
TIP: I did not sand my lids after painting so that I could keep the texture and brush streaks.
The wax sits inside the texture formed by the brush strokes and create a beautiful effect.
Step 4 – Use an old t-shirt and buff the wax to a shine.
Step 5 – Insert the handle in the lid and tighten.
Step 6 – See how the grey wax sits inside the texture for a lovely distressed effect.
Make sure the handles are tightened well.
All you need to do now is fill the jars with sweets for Easter and you have a lovely table decoration.
These will make great memory jars filled with trinkets, notes, Polaroid photos and keepsakes.
painted jar lid3Select one of the 15 trendy colours to recycle your jars and create something truly unique for your home.
Look out for the POP paint of range at your nearest craft, home decor and hardware store!
Add some colour to your life in a few easy strokes!

POP Paint – an Easter inspired transfer project.

Chiswick
On the blog today I am sharing a relic inspired project just in time for Easter celebrations. Whatever your faith, this quick and easy project can inspire some fun home decor items. So let your imagination take flight. I created this wooden plaque with a transfer image on it, a POP Paint base and some vintage details as finishing touches.
step 1 – Paint a wooden block in a light coloured POP paint colour.
step 2 – Print your selected image onto typing paper. I printed my image on an inkjet printer.
step 3 – Adhere the image face down onto the painted wooden block using gel medium to transfer the image.
step 4 – Once the gel medium is dry, wet the image with a sponge soaked in water. Keep on wetting the image and rubbing away at the paper.
step 5 – Keep on soaking and rubbing away the paper. Check every now and again to make sure the image transfers onto the wood and the paper rubs off.
step 6 – Once all the paper is removed, paint another layer of gel medium over the image.
I adhered some extra strips of paper to the wooden block, added paint splats and some old rusty nails.
Decorate the edge of the wooden block using washi tape.

Add stamped images to finish off the decorative block.
POP paint offers a wonderful base for transfers onto wood. Create wooden plaques and signs
using a variety of colours from the POP paint range of paints.
Look for them at your local craft store and hardware store – perfect for whenever you need a POP of colour in your life!

Monochromatic – Shades of blue layout.

Lady Pattern Paper
If you haven’t seen the new Lady Pattern Paper Oh my word! sticker sheets yet, then you are in for a treat. I think one of my favourites is the Baby Boy sticker sheet with its cute little whale (yeah I was sold immediately). But I was even more excited when I started creating with them. At such an amazing price tag I couldn’t help but almost use the entire sticker sheet on a layout and not even feel guilty for doing so.
I opted to create a beautiful monochromatic layout to match my stickers and found not only my Lady Pattern Paper scraps useful but some other scraps too.

Monochromatic colours are all the colours (tints, tones, and shades) of a single hue. Monochromatic colour schemes are derived from a single base hue and extended using its shades, tones and tints

I  like matting my stickers to make them look ‘more’ if that even makes sense. So I start off by matting them.
 Remove the sticker from the sticker sheet and adhere them to Lady Pattern Paper scrap bits of paper.

Freehand trim around the sticker to leave a coloured border.
 Cut some of the little images out of the sticker and use them directly onto your layout or card. TIP: Ink the edges to hide cutting marks.
Shades Of Blue Layout - Baby Boy Sticker

I added my matted stickers and cut out bits to my layout and added finishing touches like the sewn crosses and lines to them. I like dressing up my stickers a bit to help them support my theme better. Adding little details to stickers will give you dimension and texture to an otherwise plain and flat sticker elemen


Creating a shades of blue layout with Lady Pattern Paper sticker sheets and papers is quick and simple.

How to dress up your stickers

  • Matt your stickers on patterned paper or cardstock
  • Ink the edges of your stickers
  • Add sewing details like crosses and lines to your stickers
  • Emboss your stickers for a fun textured look
  • Add diamanté, pearls and buttons to your stickers to dress them up
  • Add a layer of glitter glue or dimensional glaze to your stickers

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