Bottled Up and Glazed Over

Bottled Up and Glazed Over

Hi Everyone!

Trust you are feeling on

top of the world...........

Well, its February - I have to

give you some hope......

Now if you've been whisked

off to Paris (or anywhere come 

to that) for a romantic 

Valentine's weekend then here

is the perfect reminder from

Angela Radford:

"I started this project with a smooth, tall bottle. 

Ensure this is thoroughly clean before starting 

as it will take the glaze better.

Now we can start to add the glaze by dabbing it on 

with a sponge using your choice of colours.

I chose to use these three but obviously the choice is up to you.

Next I used a Tim Holtz stamp and Stazon ink

 to apply detail to the bottle. 

The easy way to do this is to lay the stamp firmly 

on a craft mat and roll the bottle over it firmly. 

This is where the smooth bottle comes 

into it's own as it works well on the stamp

Here you can see the first stamping produced

Now I added more colour and continued with the stamping

And here is the finished bottle. 

I used more Tim Holtz stamps and also used some 

to create the labels on shrink plastic

The flowers are from my stash

Hope you enjoyed this.

Happy Crafting

Angela xXx"

Products used:

Stazon Studio Glaze.

Stazon Ink.

Sponge smoothies.

Shrink Plastic.

Tim Holtz Stamps.

Thank you very much Angela, 

I think we all enjoyed the

transformation from plain

bottle to a treasure.....

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Dimensional

Dimensional

Today we have Dawn Heald  to 

show us a beautiful bowl she has created:

I've made a shaped button bowl and I'll be honest it was meant to be a flower bowl. However, with a slip of my scissors and a couple plasters later, it changed. I'm overall pleased as these make handy little bowls easy to get at the contents.

You can make papier mache shapes using a variety of different sturdy objects. Just wrap in plastic wrap/cling film first to prevent the paper sticking to your objectives.

To make this project.

Choose object shape to use as a Mold. Cover with cling film first to prevent the paper sticking to your object. Tear small pieces of book pages and glue them all over your object. Build up as many layers as you like depending on how thick you want it. Leave to dry naturally.

Then remove object from the papier mache. You may need to cut down it to prise is off. If so simply use small pieces of book pages and glue back together. Dry and then trim and neaten edges to get shape you want. Neaten further by sanding and applying glue on very edge.

Paint all over with watered down white gesso

When dry apply colour all over using Alchemy Wax using sponge and or paintbrush.

Now make some embellishments with Shell Mold and paper clay, painted with Starlight Paint and Pink Alchemy Wax. Make some little fishes by Stamping Fish stamps onto Frosted shrink plastic, die cut, colour with clear sparkle pen and shrink with heat tool.

Back to the bowl, sponge edges and stamp the little asterisks all over the outside with Black Stazon Ink. Then add dots of White PVA glue all around outside. Dry.

Stick embellishments around outside of bowl. Add further decoration with buttons and Peacock Stickles.

The finished bowl from all angles:

Products used: 

Imagination Crafts Alchemy Wax: Peridot, Japanese Jade, Cobalt, Pink Tulip 

Imagination Crafts Starlights Metallic Paint: Pearl, Orange Oxidized 

Heartfelt Creations Under The Sea Stamps, 

Heartfelt Creations Under The Sea Die set 

PaperArtsy Lin Brown stamps ELB15

Woodware Seashells Mold 

Paper Clay 

Polyshrink Shrink Plastic: Sampler Pack 

Cosmic Shimmer White PVA Glue 

Stickles Glitter Glue: Peacock 

Stazon Ink Pad: Jet Black 

White Gesso

Multi matte medium

Wink of Stella clear pen

Thank you Dawn for showing us how to go about
making these beautiful bowls.


That's all for today folks!!

Mickie xx