Altered Box

Good morning. Hope everyone is having a good week. I have been having a good old crafty time the last few days, making Christmas cards and birthday cards and finishing off a couple of projects I had on the go. One of the projects is the title of today's post.

 

We all have a few bits and pieces lying around that are just a bit boring or have seen better days, and this was one of them. A plain note pad holder that had sat at the side of Jude's telephone for years. When she moved in here it was just sat on the desk waiting for something to be done with it. So I eventually got my sticky mitts on it and gave it a new lease of life.

 

It was really simple. A couple of coats of off-white acrylic, followed by a coat of Gloss Medium to seal it.

Then I added ribbon and trim to the bottom and adhesive lace trim and pom-pom trim to the top.

 

I decorated the sides with chipboard stickers from the Hampstead collection and then added some melt art flowers that I had made to finish it off.

 

What do you think? Hope you like it.

See you soon. 

 

xxx

 

Door Hanger

Good morning crafty friends. Well I have finally managed to finish a project that I have had on the go for a while. I have been dipping in and out of a few projects lately and not really getting to grips with any of them. So when I got home from work yesterday I made myself go and put the finishing touches to my door hanger.

 

This is for our craft room door :o))

 

 

I've done a little bit of everything on this I think lol. I started by inking the base with a few different colours of Distress Ink. Then I stamped some background images using black and teal Stazon ink.

 

 

Once these were all dry I highlighted some of the large peony flower with some purple drawing ink and then covered the whole of the background in crackle glaze.

 

 

Next I added some silver liquid pearl to parts of the flower and over the top of a stamped scroll, and then added Luna Silver Mica Flakes while it was still wet.

 

 

The phrase was cut on my Silhouette Cameo, and when I saw it, it just made me smile. I cut in in self adhesive cardstock and then stuck it to white Centura Pearl card. Then I inked over the top with distress inks and added a layer of crackle glaze.

 

 

The flowers are made from the Tattered Florals die, and then spritzed with Cosmic Shimmer Vintage inks. The final touches were courtesy of Jude ;o)) the beautiful flower and little bird were made on our melt pot workshop last month and she has let me have them for this sign. :o))

 

 

The sign is now hanging on the outside of the craftroom door so can be seen by all who enter.

 

 

Hope you are having a good week. Thank you for stopping by.

 

See you soon

 

xxx

 

 

Melt pot frame.

Good morning all. I only remembered last night that I had never shared my frame with you from the meltpot workshop that we did with Hels last month! 

All of these different craft projects lately must have muddled my brain a bit ;o)) or it could be the fact that I'm 85 years old apparently! humph the cheek of it (and I didn't even get a card!), but at least I'll always know that Jude is much older than me ;o)) ROFL ha ha ha. 

 

Anyway this is the frame that we altered and decorated. I didn't quite finish mine on the day as a couple of the things that I had made with the meltpot I wanted to use as a mould at home to make some more :o)). (See not all that muddled lol) ha ha. 

 

 

 

 

So the eagle eyed amongst you will notice that it changed a little. I finished it later adding a couple of items from our craft stash and decided to leave off the little owl from the original and use him as a keyring instead.

Hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by. See you soon.

xxx