Hello crafters..
Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year..a year filled with
lots of color, creativity, good health and happiness.
I had a great holiday this year end with my Bro visiting me
from London and we spent some amazing family time together! He also got me a
lot of crafty stuff from there (well, actually only that!)…who wants anything
else???Lol!
I am having a great time using up my new supplies and for
this project I have tried a couple of new things which are my favorites and I
have been wanting to do for a long time!
I have altered a worn and torn cardboard box this time…so
what’s new in that?
I love textures and this time I have experimented with air drying clay and wooden block prints...(These are used for fabric printing)…
I love textures and this time I have experimented with air drying clay and wooden block prints...(These are used for fabric printing)…
I applied a layer of clay on the lid and them stamped with
wooden block…just look at the impression…I just Love it!
I wanted a metallic look to the box, so went and colored it
with black acrylic colors and when it was semi wet, I rubbed in silver dust. The
result is an antiqued silver look and I also embedded some Rhine stones on the
clay before it dried. That saved me some glue, Lol!
For the base of the box, I modge podged some tissue paper
and then gave it the same metallic treatment.
For the closure, I screwed in a eyelet screw and then created
a beaded dangle for it. If you observe, I have been using blues, silver, black,
turquoise and yellow only…any guess why? You have to wait until the box is open
for that!
The embellishment on the lid is pretty simple but a few of
my fav things again..handmade flower using my new Ariana blooms die(prize win
at Craft Hoarders Anonymous),a resin butterfly, some twisted rose buds and the
quote says it all.
A closer look at the butterfly…have colored it at the back
with pearl blue metallic colors and on the top applied rock candy crackle paint…in
the cracks applied silver mica. For the antennae, I beaded some colored glass
beads on to a wire and twisted its end and voila…here she is!
Are you ready to open the box…here we go.
I love contemporary jewelry and wanted to try something with
stamping and when my Bro go me this new stamp from Paper Artsy, I knew it was
worth the wait! It was as if I had to make a piece of jewelry only with this…
I enjoyed every bit of stamping the image, coloring with DI,
sealing it with industrial resin, adding the jewelry findings , fixing little
glass bead danglers and finally stringing the organza chord! Phew that was all
quite a bit of new things to me but I loved the end result, MY OWN HAND CRAFTED
JEWELLERY!
I think the quote in the inside lid is just perfect for the
New Year! I have stamped it and mounted it on a piece of corrugated cardboard;
I love its natural texture.
That kind of wraps up my 2nd project for the
year! Very very soul satisfying…the thought of re cycling and also creating
something new and also with all my fav elements in there!
I would like to enter my trinket box and handmade jewelry in
the following challenges…
LTSCB- use items with these alphabets( L-layers, leaves, T-
texture, trinket box, S-silver, string, stamps, C-chord, card board, B- beads,
butterfly!
Lessology- card board central (old card board box and
corrugated cardboard for the sentiment panel)
Artistic Inspiration- anything goes with a twist of new (new
texture, new stamps and my first piece of handmade jewelry)
TIOT – Favorite things (texture, handmade embellishments, re
cycling, jewelry making)
613 Avenue Create- Anything Goes with a twist of matching
envelope (I have a matching box for a change!)
Artistic Inspirations- anything goes with a twist of new.
Artistic Inspirations- anything goes with a twist of new.
Until my next Creative Journey…
Happy Crafting and Re cycling…
Remember, TODAY BELONGS TO YOU…
Big hugs.
