My Sunny Entrance

Hello crafty friends..

Welcome to my page today. I haven’t been blogging for a few weeks now...just not up to it with so much happening in my home town, Chennai. The rains have played havoc there and most of the city has had problems with it. With so much happening and rain lashing I decided to add some sunshine in my project.

I had a scrap wood piece lying around and decided to make a mixed media wall decor for my entrance. Here are a few easy steps...

Step1- I painted the scrap wood with a heavy coat od black gesso. You can actually see how weathered the wood piece is, with some holes already on it! PERFECT for my kind of project. I then applied Vaseline in random spots where I wanted some distressing to be done.

Step2- I applied a coat of white chalky finish paint ( Deco Art Everlasting). It dried in minutes and then I started sanding and in places where the Vaseline was there, the paint peeled off easily to reveal the black color beneath. I had a lovely distressed wood piece to play with now!

Step3- I made my own texture paste and added some white sand to it to make it coarse and grainy. Also added some black gesso to give it a cement like color and as I ran it thru the TCW bricks stencils, it just looked like cemented bricks!

Step 4- I decoupaged some flowers using  modge podge and also added pieces of washi tape in complimenting colors to the panel .An empty glass jar was given a bright yellow color and I added a resin butterfly to it for added interest.

 As the bottle was drying, I added a POP rose flower with flourish on the top of the panel, which I painted white and dry brushed some black gesso for some distressing. 

The base of the bottle has the same washi tape...doesn’t that look cool?

Step 5- Added some script stamped here and there Bo Bunny stamps and tried my hands with some carpentry here! I drilled a few holes to hold the bottle and ran a natural twine (thick) around the bottle to keep it secure on the panel. I hot glued the bottle before tying it with the twine and now it was ready to take up the weight I had imagined!

Step 6- I gave the entire panel 2 coats of varnish as that was drying, I decided to have this little quote to spruce up my mood and entrance. That’s it now it hangs pretty on my entrance wall!

Next time you visit home, do take time to notice it, else I am going to intentionally delay in opening the door, lol ! 

Thank you so much for stopping by today and hope your lives are filled with love, warmth and sunshine.

I would like to enter this panel in the following challenges...

Lulupu- Home Decor using modge podge and washi tape

We Love To Create- Ag mixed media

STAMP lorations Ch blog – Mixed media
Inspiration Destination Ch blog- Ag

Until my next creative journey,

Happy Crafting and re cycling,

Cheers.

One for the table!

Hello crafty friends..

I have a crafty share and some good news too! As always I have an altered art project to show you and the good news is that I am a member of Deco Art Blogger Outreach Program! Yeah...I was more than happy to receive a bunch of dream goodies, mostly paints, varnishes, wax and so on for furniture distressing!

Do you know what that means...my fav old furniture’s will be getting a makeover soon...not going to spare them too, lol!

Here is what I created with a few of the new products that Igot from Deco Art. 

An antique wooden caddy...you think so??? Wait till the end for a surprise reveal!

Here is how I went about making it...

Step1- I painted the box with black gesso and went about creating textures with stencils, stamps and home made texture paste. I used some die cuts from my stash too. 

I have adhered a cute angel made with POP and resin mold and have worked texture around it too. The focal point on both sides is the heart shaped frame which too has a textured border. The rope running all along the base of the box is made with air dry clay.

Step2- Once the texture was ready, I painted the whole box with black acrylic paint and then started working some brushed pewter DS on it, followed by a wash of burnt umber fluid acrylics. 

To further antique the look, I gave the entire box a wash of antiquing cream in patina green and then rubbed with a baby wipe. Lastly I rubbed in old gold, Inka Gold too. My antique caddy was looking a museum piece now! As if that was not enough, I rubbed in rusty hinge DI in places to give a worn rusty look!

Step3- I cut out this lovely angel from a decoupage tissue and adhered it to linen white CS, and cut it to size to fit the heart frame. I aged her too with some distress inking and Inka gold.I have applied Liquid glass clear on heart and on the other I used Triple Thick diamond glaze! The little angle is secure now!

Step4- I decided to give a pop of color to the antique caddy by embellishing it in fall colors. I punched holes on both sides, used gold eyelets and strung a copper wire for handle. 

All the glass beads and baubles are from my stash and I have used some patina green, orange, copper and black colors which brightens the caddy! A little metal charm that says it all hangs from the handle!

Step5- On one side of the heart I have orange twisted rose buds and a rusty metal wing that hangs above the angel.

 

On the other side some pretty white flowers and have colored the flowers on the angel’s hair!

Finally, a coat of Ultra matte varnish and my caddy was ready. Here is how it looks on my table with a little natural freshness picked from the garden! 

I have kept a few of the supplies that I reach out too quite often, so that I get to see this beauty.

Did I tell you that I altered a wooden caddy??? How could I if I dint have one...

No sweats..but I have THIS!

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I love to hear from you.
Deco arts Products used
Burnt Umber Fluid acrylics
Antiquing Cream patina green
Liquid Glass Clear
Triple thick Diamond glaze
Ultra matte Varnish

I would like to have this caddy enter the following challenges...

Frilly and Funkie- Stamps be gone

TIOT- add some metal

Brown Sugar Challenge- Anything But A card

Crafting musketeers- Autumnal colors

Stamps and Stencils- Up, Up, away in autumnal colors

OLLCB- feminine

Loves to Create Ch Blog- Ag mixed media

Crafty Calendar Ch- AG

Loves to Scrap Ch blog- AG

Until my next creative journey,

Happy Crafting and Re cycling.

Cheers.