CHEERS to LIFE.

Hello crafty friends..

Welcome to my page today. It’s beautiful in this part of the globe! I hope all of you are enjoying the sunshine and outdoors, we do have occasional rains and that makes it even more green and fresh!

On one such day, I decided to alter a fav coffee mug that had a few cracks and a chipped handle and I wasn’t willing to let go of it yet! I had stored my brushes in it for some time and then I decided I was actually bored of the plain colors it had!

I about making it as a gift for my husband, who shifted into a new cabin recently at work and I thought he needed some color on his table, lol!

So here it goes...the new look to the mug!

 

I prepped the cup by giving a mild coat of gesso and then decided to decoupage the image of this lovely couple. It is a tissue image and so it was pretty easy to get it on to the curved surface. 

A picture of a couple enjoying the outdoors over a cup of wine! O la la! I am sure this will break the monotony and give my husband to think beyond files and meetings whenever he gets a glance of this image!

I wanted more rugged textures on the mug and went about sticking a crumpled tissue and dry wall tape all around.

 The couple had to be highlighted, ofcourse for reasons more than one, lol!

I had a negative of an ornate oval die cut and decided to focus on the couple using this! I gave texture to that too and made a molded rose using air dry clay too.

All this stuck to the cup, I painted the whole mug with black gesso and then some dry brushing with Folk Art multi surface paints. I am falling in love with these paints for its smoothness on any surface! I just did dry brushing randomly with green and blue just hitting on the highs!

This gave an instant life to the mug. The bluish green hues with black in the crevices just added so much depth to this project. Just look at that mild, it looks so antique.

I am glad that in spite of the floral element, it still can pass off as a masculine project, what say????

I tied some rope to the handle to cover the chips and then did the sane technique there too!

The mug was ready except for this little stamped sentiment, a clear stamp form a local store I thought was apt for this “MUG” !

Cheers to life, Cheers to good times, Cheers to good health and Cheer to a bright Tomorrow...and more! 

This MUG is no ordinary one now....sure to make him think for a minute or bring a smile definitely!

Do you think he should keep his stationery in there or just a bunch of flowers???? Which is better? 

Thank you so much for stopping by today.

I would like to enter the following challenges...

Lessology- Mug shot

Stamps and Stencils- Tic Tac Toe (flowers, tissue, image)

All Sorts Challenge- Anything But a card.

Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge- AG

A Vintage Journey- Monochromatic

Until my next creative journey,

Happy crafting and recycling.

Cheers.

Life in the Sea

Hello crafty friends..

Welcome to my page today. I have been wanting to do a project with animal and the undersea theme and there were just some challenges which inspired me to give it a try!

As always, I went about altering an empty packaging box lying around at home. The box was all black and so easy for me to start off.

I started by sticking all the beachy and sea stuff that I had in my stash including some sea shells collected probably 20 yrs back!

I first stuck the net and went about sticking the sea animals and shells with quick drying glue. 

Once they were secure, I gave the whole box a coat of black gesso.

As this was drying, I made some homemade texture paste with sand and smeared it all around the base of the box except where the lid would sit. I applied the same on the base of the lid too.

By this time the gesso was dry and I picked up a dry brush and some white acrylics and started to work on the lid. I just love the subtle yet dramatic look of dry brushing! It just hit randomly and I love the pattern created! The lid was coming to life with this look!

The texture paste too had dried; I went about doing the same dry brushing, this time with blue acrylics. The effect was that of waves on beach sand with the animal life above!

What a spot! Just inspired me stamp the quote...”IF I COULD LIVE HERE”.

Do you wish the same???

This was a quick and easy project. I sealed the box with a coat of ultra matte varnish and loved the porcelain look to the animals and shells!

I would like to take this box to the following challenges...

Things to alter- ag

Deco Art-Under the sea challenge

Anything but Cute- Summer time

MIXED MEDIA WORLD- Under the sea

Moo Mania- AG

The Corrosive Ch blog- Nature/ animals

Try It On Tuesday- Happy holidays
Simon Says Stamp Monday blog- Nautical/by the sea
A Vintage Journey- Monochromatic
Blog studio 75- No flowers
Berry71bleu-Fantasy It is

Until my next creative journey,

Happy crafting and recycling,

Cheers.

A Shabby Layout

Hello Crafters…

Thank you so much for your visits to my blog, for joining me on my crafty venture and also to those of you who took a Walk in thewoods…if not, please do.

Today, I have something different for you, no altered project, Bless you…LOL! Re cycling ,,,YES, of course! I have done a layout for a change with some DIY elements.I have to complicate the project and not leave it simple right???

Here we go…

The LO has 5 layers in total, I love layers and textures. So have used some texture paste and TCW stencils here. The pp are from Recollections pack which has some bright s colors in pink and have used one in Kraft too. Stamped in doilies and numerals using Bo Bunny stamps.

The DIY element here is the message board for journaling…yes, it’s a medium weight chipboard coated with home made chalkboard paint in green!!!

 You know what that means…I can change the messages every day…isn’t that cute. Once I have a few successful projects on the chalkboard paint, will come back with a tutorial.

The frame too is made with corrugated cardboard from packaging, dry brushed with gesso to give a white washed look, edged with Prima chalkers, torn to reveal the corrugation in places and some lovely pink chalkboard paint splatters! Cool eh??? Stamped The title on one of the sides of the frame.

The flowers are all made with TH tattered florals die and have a flat back pebble as the center. Have used up some net from my daughter’s old frock  as a layer beneath the purple flower and some hand dyed cheese cloth beneath the other 2 flowers. MDF leaves heat embossed in gold add the sparkle here.

Have you seen a bow on a bow…look at this!

So that’s pretty much it…an unusually small post to day! However, I would like to link this to the following challenges…

Beyond Grey Challenges- 4 colors and MDF leaves

Creative Moments –anything goes, 3 layers

The Sisterhood of Crafters – Lots of layers ( 5 here)

Creative Card Crew _Twine ( have used natural jute twine)

Tando Creative- Alphabets and numbers ( have used PP with alphabets and stamped numbers too)
Crafty Catz - Happy Birthday

Thank you so much for stopping by and do let me know what you think about this project and the DIY stuff.

Am waiting….

Until then,

Happy Crafting and Re Cycling.

Hugs.

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