Small Wonder

Hello crafty friends..

Welcome to another month and I am back with my altered art project for Rhedd’s Creative Spirit. You can make anything but a card but altered art or mixed media only.

I have today a shabby book to share with you! It’s the size of a palm and unravels a big SURRISE in the end!

The book cover is a shabby chic style...after a long time from my side. For the cover, I dry embossed a white CS and then used DI peacock feathers to color it. Then took another scrap PP from Prime Sunrise Sunset pack and created texture with crackle texture paste. Once dry, I sprayed in some green and blue inks randomly.

I then decoupaged this lovely napkin onto this paper and then dabbed on some gesso on the sides.

The spine is using Tyvek paper and then I covered it with this pretty lace, (my prize win at Lessology). I inked the edges of the lace with tea dye DI and pierced an eyelet to hang this cute bottle charm. 

I have filled it with colored white sand. I colored white sand with peacock feathers DI. Love that color and some wooden beads and some silver charms give it thet perfect girlie look! The ornate metal corner is colored with silver alcohol inks too. I named the book “Small wonder”.

Ready for the ride ahead????

I shall now open the book and you can see the first SURPRISE...well, its not a book here!

 I altered a tin box to look like a book! On the lid i have a frame where I have used resist technique to color. I heat embossed a pattern with clear embossing powder and then mopped up the colors mustard seed, crushed olive and peacock feathers from the craft mat!

Well that not it...There is another SURPRISE inside this book.

Out comes a mini book...no ordinary book. Its a mini star book. It says “Short Stories” cos i have used the pages inside to showcase my daughter’s childhood photographs and against each picture I have these one line quotes from Inkadinkado.

There are 3 layers to this star book and on the final later I have used PP from Prima sunrise sunset stack and have done some stamping around the pages.

The colors in pink and yellow urged me to use up some more lace for the base of the page! It surely looks pretty with all that dressing, lol!

 Once the pictures and the quotes came in, it becomes an attractive display.

The advantage of a start book is that it can be a display on table or can be closed into a book at any time!

My daughter loved seeing herself in my craft project today! I hope you enjoyed too and play along with our challenge. Do drop in to see what the team has to show you.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

 I would like to have my “small wonder” enter the following challenges.
The Crazy Challenge- Shabby chic
Dream valley Challenge- recipe-Lace, pink, embossing
That Craft Place- Ag mixed media
Loves to Create Challenge- Ag mixed media
Lessology- Its reading time ( up cycled tin box)

Until my next creative Journey,

Happy crafting and re cycling.

Cheers.

A Shabby LOVE !

Hello crafters..

Welcome to my page today…I have something totally different from my usual Vintage style! If you have been following me, you will agree as to how difficult it is fro me to keep away from the BROWNS!  This project is brown free…totally..That was a real challenge for me, but I did it. Let me know if you see any brown!

I have discovered a new love for books…not reading, who has the time??lol…

I have altered one more Mills and Boon this time, perfect setting for the LOVE month!

A shabby love story of a beautiful couple…here it is!

I so love this picture from the net, and wanted a proper  frame to get this couple in! So, I went about  making a shadow box from an old mills and boon! Leaving a few pages in the front and back, I carved out a box in the center to hold some…SURPRISE!

I was going to keep the base color white! Yes, even I was surprised at my decision…but I was going to do it!

After sealing the box with gel medium, I gave 2 coats of gesso and then started my texture work.  I randomly applied some pearlescent paints in soft shabby pastel colors in spots in the front and at the back and sides. Then, went about stamping some textures and script with Bo Bunny stamps. Then came the time for texture paste and basket weave stencil from Prima and when that dried, I rubbed in pearl silver on the texture.

 By now the front page had a soft shimmery shine in silver and the whites and the soft colors made me happy…yes, no browns till now! Lol..

The heart widow on the front page is a hand cut out and I backed it with a cardboard at the back so it would be a sturdy closure. Some bling outlines the heart…after all it is supposed to be romantic, you see.

I used my new Heart felt creations, Ariana Blooms (my prize win) to make some flowers and have inked the edges alone so as to keep it shabby too. The florish leaf is a resin mold which I gessoed and then applied some distress crackle and then pearl blue in the crack. Its just so pretty!

 The ornate metal book corners are also given an aged shabby look with just rubbing a bit of gesso…no browns here again!

I have dyed the seam binding in pastel colors with worn lipstick and peacock feathers DI.

And then the book opens….

This is what you  see!

A shabby heart key chain, a love message scroll and lovely ruby heart…does this remind you of Titanic!I know that was in blue, but this was the closest I could get! I just loved this ruby heart…it’s a broken hair clip, lol! It just was waiting to fit in this love project..

The shabby key chain..is a stamped image using Paper Artsy stamp on one side and Itsy Bitsy on the other side. I stamped on canvas and colored with DI and then sealed it with varnish. The heart has crackle paint too and I have done some shabby machine stitching too..

The romantic message scroll too have been inked in complimenting colors and tied with twine and lay in a bed of shabby cheese cloth…no browns here too!

Have a closer look at this ruby heart! The front cover of the book is backed using paper from Prima Sunrise sunset paper pack…lovely lace pattern paper, so I dint alter it one bit.

The shadow box too has some stamping, inking , water wash and bling! Not to forget the back…

The entire book is edged with prima chalk egder , Tin can.

So, I have successfully completed a project without using brown paint or ink!! Did you see any???

I would love to hear your feed back on this shabby Love story. And it is now a proud display in my living room, cos the photo can be changed! I had to document my achievement of not using browns you see, Lol! Thanks for putting up with my chitter chatter!
Am now wondering "what next with a mills and boon" ???

I am entering my altered book in the following challenges..

CraftyCatz- Stitching

PolkaDoodle – flower power

SimplyCreate too- use hearts

Brown SugarChallenge – 3 diff embellishments

Natalie& Amy challenge Blog- all about Love

AlteredEclectics

All SortsChallenge Blog- flower power

SweetStamping Challenge Blog – Love

OCC- Metal, ribbon, paints

Try It On Tuesday - Add a photo

Thank you so much for stopping by today.

Until my next creative journey,

Happy Crafting and Re cycling.

Hugs.

Colors of valentine !

Hello crafters..

Welcome to my page today…I would like to thank my followers “old” and New” and for those who take the time to stop by and leave a comment, I love to read them all!

Welcome to the official month of LOVE!

This is my DT project for Rhedd’s Creative Spirit for this month. It is always Anything Goes and you can create any form of altered art or 3D project. So come on and play along and do drop by to see the amazing works of the team.

I have always wondered about the colors of love, why should it always be red and black. I have played with Ms. Worn Lipstick and Mr. Peacock feathers for a change and I must admit their romance is pretty colorful.

Do you want to see…..

I have altered a “Mills and Boon” book for this project…perfect for the month, lol!

I also experimented with printing on tissue at home on a Ink Jet printer and being successful, would like to share the process with you.

Here we go…

I first adhered a tissue paper to the printer paper with washi tape and inserted it onto the printer as always. 

I then compiled a set of pics to be printed on one page, here are some lovely vintage pics from We Love Vintage Challenge Blog…just my type!

And once I gave the “print” command…out comes the lovely print on the tissue paper. Oooo…I just love it…I carefully removed the backing and it was ready to hit my project. 

Hope that was helpful for you.

Now to the main project…

I knew it was going to be vintage and with the main colors in mind, I added a few more supportive colors for the tags. I din’t want to restrict my valentine project to just a couple, and so I have a sister, brother, father or friend images for the tag.

The tags are Joy crafts die cuts and I colored them typical Tim style by applying inks on the craft mat, sprit zing water and swooshing the tag to get lovely patters. Than a little water flick and I just loved the impact. I then did some bg stamping using brown archival ink and the base of the tags were to be altered.

For the front of the tag, I stuck the tissue print of images and some TH quotes with gel medium. At the back of each tag, I stamped the months so that I can jot down things to be done for that month! The functional part you see…lol!

The ornate top of the tag was heat embossed in gold and my tags were ready to be displayed in style!

I then folded the pages of the book and then inked in worn lipstick and edged with vintage photo and some peacock feathers too…after all its their romance right???

A gilding of gold on the page folds on the top, gave it a royal touch and the tag stand was ready.

I covered the book using some lovely PP from K& Co  and started working on the front and back display mats. Swished out some home made texture paste to it and added gold color and glitter to the paste and created hearts using TH stencil. 

I love the subtle glitter of the gold, I have to thank Pamellia of ‘My Little Craft Things” for introducing this formula. Thanks buddy…this is a hit.

Roses, had to be there and so made them with TH tattered florals die and inked them too and placed them on the font and back until I liked them.

Here is the front side…

To add some more dimension, I placed the flowers on a bed of coconut coir( I love it) and added some leaves, a twine bow and a golden flourish!  I plaited 3 strands of twine and knotted the ends to form tassels. I then inked it with peacock feathers and rubbed inks gold a on the tassels and made a bow. I think it's a little beauty out there!

The corners have ornate book corners colored with alcohol inks and look at those lovely butterflies hovering. I cut them out from the Mariposa paper pack, inked the edges, applied rock candy distress crackle paint and then rubbed in Inka gold on the cracks!

This is the back display..

A few tags are casually placed on the mat here.

That brings us to the end of the romantic journey and I am eagerly waiting to hear from you and to also see what you have created for this challenge.

I would like to link my altered book in the following challenges…

A VintageJourney – Love is in the air

Scrapping4FunChallenge Blog- Love

ArtistTrading Post – Flower power

Craftysentiments – Gold and other colors , Love/ Valentine

Wags’N’WhiskersChallenge Blog – Hearts

SOS- Love me do

My SheriCrafts- Valentine

Bunny Zoe’sCrafts – heart

Frillie andFunkie – Valen Twine

Until my next creative journey,

Happy Crafting and Re Cycling.

Big Hugs.