Sunshine + rain equals...

Hello Crafty peeps…

Welcome to my page and today I share with you my DT project for Rhedd’s Creative Spirit where the challenge is always “Anything Goes” but mixed media or altered art only, NO cards please.

My project is another holiday inspired project. I told you I had a lot in mind after the holiday and this particular one I saw in one of the widow displays in a shop. I love window shopping and this caught my fancy in the streets of Austria!

Here is what I saw …

And here is what I made of it…..

Yes, an altered mini armoire for you today, all shabby, distressed and vintage…feels so cozy in my comfort zone! I do have a little surprise for you at the end.

I so fell in love with the maroon color and retained it in my project. I had this color CS and ran it thru my mew Darice embossing folder(quilt). I love the quilt patterns in it and then dry brushed some gesso over it to give it a distressed washed look.

 I could see everywhere that “distressed furniture” is the “in” thing right now and I am going about making miniatures at home just to convince my husband so that I could do the same to the big one’s at home too, lol! I have eyed a few pieces of furniture which I would love lay my hands on…very soon it shall be a reality!

I adhered the embossed CS for the doors and the panel on top.

Here is a closer look at the lovely embossed pattern and the white washed look.

The wooden knobs have been coated with gesso and then a layer of Black soot distress crackle paint. You can see the cracks here…

I cut out the stamp size images of the ‘found relatives” from Ideology “lost and found” paper stack and arranged them on the door pattern to give a vintage look.

For the sides I have used the colorful papers from the same stack. I love the brightness of this PP against the washed look of the embossed CS.

 The Sizzix flourishes are cut with black CG and layered to give a black metal look and I have it on the sides and on the top panel to lend an ornate look to the armoire. These have been washed with gesso too.

Coming to the embellishments on the top panel, I have flowers strewn all around in bright summer colors. I have taken the color prompt from the PP actually and made flowers using Joy crafts and TH tattered florals. They have all been inked and colored using DI.

The metal frame is an ugly enameled one that I have had for years now and was screaming for a makeover! I just gave it e coats of gesso and applied some metallic yellow paint and voila, the ugly duckling looked like a princess, lol!

The sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping and I thought it fit the project so well. Let me tell you why..

Distressed + bright PP = sunshine +rain!!!

I was never great with Math, so you can calculate to see if this is right, lol!

The little perfume bottle Is from my stash and I crackled and colored it with alcohol inks. Love the lime green freshness!

The wicker heart is a last minute add and I wanted hanging from the sides with a metal chain.The ideology feet adds the much needed vintage look which also has been dry brushed with gesso.

 That’s the overall all look of the exterior!

Do we proceed inside…what’s waiting???

I have continued with the same sunshine + rain formula inside too. I have a removal plank in case I decide to have the armoire to hang things later!

Right now, all my metallic paints and glitter powders sit cozy in there!

Are you ready for the little surprise? Do you want to know how this armoire started out to be…I actually dint have one and was not ready to buy a pricy one from the stores!

And so I made one with THIS….

Very soon I will get back to you with a LIFE size one that I am eyeing at home! Wish me luck.

I would love to have your valuable comments on this project. It always brings a smile and helps me grow. Now remember the formula always!

Do play along and have a peek at the lovely creations of the other DT’s here.

I would like have this mini armoire enter the following challenges…

CreativeMoments – AG with wet/dry embossing

Beyond Grey Challenges -Dimensional project
Die Cuttin Divas- AG
Crafty Sentiments - Summer
Moo -mania  - swirls
Our Creative Corner - mexico moods
Sistersofcraft - Ag
Frilly and Funkie - Something to say
Sparkles Forum Challenge Blog- Vintage/shabby chic

Until my next Creative journey,

Happy crafting and Re cycling.

Hugs.

Golden Sunshine...

Hello Crafters..

Welcome to my page today…I am here with my DT project for Anything But A Card Challenge where the theme is “FOOLS GOLD”…so go ahead and create anything but a card please!

I personally do not like gold but do like it if it is aged or dull ! But when you say Gold, I can only think of yellow and so my project today has a yellow base with different hues and textures of gold!

Ready for the feast???

It’s bright and sunny here with new life to nature…I see new leaves, new flowers and new colors in my garden too! I have altered a picture frame this time…A lovely wooden frame that was gifted to me on my birthday by a dear friend who knew I love to alter ! And that is what I did…

Am going to be celebrating my 20^th wedding anniversary soon and wanted to make something for that and also remember I said, I am doing up my house too???

I ideally wanted to make something that would light up a corner shelf and have use some bright colors but Distressed…yes, How can I not do that???

I covered the wooden frame with gesso and then sponged in lime yellow acrylic color. Time to distress…out came the sand paper and I rubbed a bit to revel the wood benath and then dry sponged some gesso in places to give a distressed and white washed look too.

I also rubbed in a bit of dull gold Inka gold randomly in the edges to give a vintage “celebration” look !!

The focal point was going to be not the “found relatives” but some real ones, lol! I took a sepia print out of “us” and decided to work a floral theme around us!

I colored some Rhine stones with gold alcohol ink and stuck them randomly. A bunch of floral decoration on the left side with a big loopy bow and flower cluster on the top definitely catches your attention but hey, did you see that I have stamped the sentiments on acetate!

This is my first acetate stamping and it took me two tries to get it right and I liked the subtle, transparent and different look of the sentiments popping out!

There's one tucked casually behind the bow strands and has the gold alcohol dripping from all the sides.

The other one is a fist tail banner and for this I dabbed some purple and gold alcohol ink on the reverse for some splash of color! Both sentiments are from KaiserCraft.I drilled some holes on the inside shadow portion of the frame to suspend a few metal chains with glass beads to look like a half curtain!

The loopy bow has the trinket pin which says “Fragile”…perfect for this project and I made a chunky charm with some aged gold chain and glass beads.I aged the ornate book corners too to give a dull gold look.

 However, I kept the butterfly  and the flowers in bright colors because they add life to this project!

The Monarch butterfly is an acetate die cut using Frantic Stamper Precision die. I first sponged some alcohol ink in gold and then applied some grunge paste with metallic gold color mixed in it and then sprinkled some coarse gold glitter too! That’s a LOT OF GOLD in one little butterfly but I just loved how it looked after drying! I think it steals the show here…

The flowers are all using  different die fro Heart felt creations Arianna blooms, CLD sunflower and CLD sastha daisy die. They have all been colored with distress inks. The foliage is also die cuts from Tattered lace ferns die and CLD Tropical leaves.

That’s the end of the alteration and I think I have never used thus many forms of Gold in any project and I am glad this challenge made me discover the different possibilities.

 So come on, take out all that gold and play along this month. Hope to see you projects soon there!

I hope I did justice to the plain  frame that my friend gave! I am getting a vintage white display cabinet made for my living room ...a new home for my latest creation!

Thank you so much for taking the time to be here and taking part in my anniversary celebrations.

I would love to have my celebrations frame enter the following challenges.

A Vintage Journey – Thru the glass door( acetate, picture frame and glass beads)

Brown SugarChallenge – Distress( I just love that word, lol)

Craft StamperChallenge – Take a technique- color

Red RubberInspirations Challenge – Spring Flowers

Cherry Lynn Designs Challenge – Pretty in purple

Art With Heart - Spring Break

Frilly ‘n’ FunkieChallenge – Spring time die cuts

Moo Mania Challenge– feeling of spring

Crafty  Sentiments- lots of flowers

The Corrosive Challenge Blog- Floral fantasy 

Until my next creative Journey,

Happy Crafting and Re cycling.

Cheers.