Hello crafty friends..
Welcome to my page today. We have some lovely showers yesterday as I was
working on my altered project. My project is as fresh and colorful as my garden
outside with a little vintage twist!
Without much ado, here is my altered bottle...from the heart!
Each of my altered project is close to my heart ,lol...but this one just
got the tag!
I had a blast with my mixed supplies for this project
Step1- Once the bottle was cleaned up I sponged in gesso. I then adhered 2
decoupage tissues, one on each side and waiting for it to dry. As this was
drying, i whipped up m y homemade texture paste and added some fine white sand
to it to give more texture!
Here is the outcome. I went about
applying the same randomly on the bottle. The idea was to merge the tissue with
the texture paste.
Step2- Lest the bottle to dry overnight with the texture paste...I know
unlike me but my heat gun conked! I miss him sooo much, lol! Then came the acrylic
colors.
I sponged in a base light blue and then went over with a bright green.
Next I made a spray with yellow paint and it was lovely to see it hit the nooks
and crannies in the texture! Well this time I used my hair dryer to speed up
things!
Step3- Once I was happy with the colors, I went about muting the brightness
woth archival brown ink, potting soil! Yes, I love colorful with a vintage
twist! The images too were speaking a vintage style and I had to tone down the
brightness, lol! I loved how the brown ages the bottle!
Step4- The tag line had to be a special piece! So I went creating a faux
weathered wood chip from a chipboard...yes, chipboard. I gessoed and layered
colors and distressed them to reveal the age, lol! The stamp was just perfect
to fit in there and some metal chain from my stash attached to it...a lovely
distressed hanging sign was ready! Love it!
Step5- After a long time, I am actual working on floral embellishments! I
made the pink rose with TH tattered florals die and made it the focal pint. On
the bottle lid I created a little bed with twigs and coconut coir for the
floral garden to rest! The pink rose is surrounded by tiny little flowers to
match the flowers on the tissue!
I got these little bugs and birds from a
crafty friend and was more than happy to have them sit pretty here. The bugs
ate all over...there is also a little one in conversation with the bird on the
hanging sign!
There is so much life right now on this bottle...here is an aerial view of
it.
It doesn’t look bad on the other side too, lol!
I just love this little girl...there is something about here wanting to say
something “from the heart”! The girl and the pretty cycle make a pretty companion
with the lovely outdoor feeling of the birds, bugs, flowers and the vintage
garden...what say???
I would love to hear your views on this. It always makes me happy.
I wish to enter this vintage garden in the following challenges...
A Vintage Journey- texture paste
Anything but Cute- Birds and bees
Lessology- neon colors
Frilly and Funkie – Let the words do the talking
Until my next creative journey,
Happy Crafting and recycling.
Cheers.
