Hello Crafters..
Welcome to my page
today…I am here with my DT project for Anything But A Card Challenge where the
theme is “FOOLS GOLD”…so go ahead and create anything but a card please!
I personally do not
like gold but do like it if it is aged or dull ! But when you say Gold, I can only think of yellow and so my project today has a yellow base with different hues and textures of gold!
Ready for the
feast???
It’s bright and
sunny here with new life to nature…I see new leaves, new flowers and new colors
in my garden too! I have altered a picture frame this time…A lovely wooden
frame that was gifted to me on my birthday by a dear friend who knew I love to
alter ! And that is what I did…
Am going to be
celebrating my 20th wedding anniversary soon and wanted to make
something for that and also remember I said, I am doing up my house too???
I ideally wanted to
make something that would light up a corner shelf and have use some bright colors but Distressed…yes, How can I not do that???
I covered the
wooden frame with gesso and then sponged in lime yellow acrylic color. Time to
distress…out came the sand paper and I rubbed a bit to revel the wood benath
and then dry sponged some gesso in places to give a distressed and white washed
look too.
I also rubbed in a bit
of dull gold Inka gold randomly in the edges to give a vintage “celebration” look !!
The focal point was
going to be not the “found relatives” but some real ones, lol! I took a sepia
print out of “us” and decided to work a floral theme around us!
I colored some Rhine stones with gold alcohol ink and stuck them randomly. A bunch of floral decoration on the left side with a big loopy bow and flower cluster on the top definitely catches your attention but hey, did you see that I have stamped the
sentiments on acetate!
This is my first acetate stamping and it took me two tries to get it right and I liked the subtle,
transparent and different look of the sentiments popping out!
There's one tucked casually behind the bow strands and has the gold alcohol dripping from all the sides.
The other one is a
fist tail banner and for this I dabbed some purple and gold alcohol ink on the reverse for some splash of color! Both sentiments are from KaiserCraft.
The loopy bow has the trinket pin which says “Fragile”…perfect for this project and I made a chunky
charm with some aged gold chain and glass beads.I aged the ornate book corners
too to give a dull gold look.
The Monarch butterfly
is an acetate die cut using Frantic Stamper Precision die. I first sponged some alcohol ink in gold and then applied some grunge paste with metallic gold color mixed in it and then sprinkled some coarse gold glitter too! That’s a LOT
OF GOLD in one little butterfly but I just loved how it looked after drying! I
think it steals the show here…
The flowers are all
using different die fro Heart felt
creations Arianna blooms, CLD sunflower and CLD sastha daisy die. They have all
been colored with distress inks. The foliage is also die cuts from Tattered lace ferns die and CLD Tropical leaves.
That’s the end of
the alteration and I think I have never used thus many forms of Gold in any
project and I am glad this challenge made me discover the different possibilities.
So come on, take out all that gold and play along this month.
Hope to see you projects soon there!
I hope I did
justice to the plain frame that my
friend gave! I am getting a vintage white display cabinet made for my living
room ...a new home for my latest creation!
Thank you so much
for taking the time to be here and taking part in my anniversary celebrations.
I would love to
have my celebrations frame enter the following challenges.
A Vintage Journey –
Thru the glass door( acetate, picture frame and glass beads)
Brown SugarChallenge – Distress( I just love that word, lol)
Craft StamperChallenge – Take a technique- color
Red RubberInspirations Challenge – Spring Flowers
Cherry Lynn Designs Challenge – Pretty in purple
Art With Heart - Spring Break
Frilly ‘n’ FunkieChallenge – Spring time die cuts
Moo Mania Challenge– feeling of spring
Crafty Sentiments- lots of flowers
Happy Crafting and
Re cycling.
Cheers.
