February 11th, 2018
Hi dear crafty friends! Today I want to share with you a Double Frame Canvas for Studio 75 DT. This canvas is a combination between paper crafting and mixed media. You don’t always need to have a full mixed media background or project to get pretty steampunk piece. Double Frame Canvas. Studio 75 DT I started with painting the edges of the canvas with black gesso. Then I attached a piece of pattern cardstock on top. I used the Mrs & Mr collection by Studio 75. For added texture I added chipboards which I painted with acrylic paints to the background. I added two frames as my focal points for the vintage photos I used. To enhance the steampunk look I added some metal embellishments. When you use metallic paints, cogwheel shaped chipboards and metal parts you can have that steampunk look on any project! Have you Joined the VIP Room? Where every month …
February 4th, 2018
Hi dear crafty friends! Today I want to share with you my Home Decor Steampunk Altered Brushes. If you have old unused brushes this project is a good recycling idea for them. If you don’t have old dry brushes then remember not to throw away the brushes when you can’t use them anymore. Home Decor Steampunk Altered Brushes I’m terrible when it comes to cleaning my brushes. I always forget to clean them and I leave them with all the paint or glue on. his results in many ruined brushes I can’t use anymore. BUT I almost never throw things away, including my brushes because there is always something to do with them… This time I took all my old brushes and glued them together to create a surface to work on. I covered the brushes with rust paste to add to their degraded look. Then I added all kinds of metal embellishments and embellishments I created from …
November 26th, 2017
Hi dear crafty friends! Today I want to share with you a new project: Merry Christmas Snowy Home Decor Sign. The sign has a very wintery feel to it and it’s full of texture and “snow”. It’s the perfect piece to hang in your house or make as a gift to someone special. This sign was inspired by the color challenge at Words and Paintery blog. Merry Christmas Snowy Home Decor Sign First I covered a wooden sign with white gesso. The gesso is required not only to seal the wood, which is a porous surface, but also to give the entire sign a white color. Then I added texture. For the texture I used a grainy modeling paste which is completely white. I added it on the bottom and the top of the sign to add the look of snow. The next step was to add the trees, which I created by …
September 13th, 2015
Inside: a cool way to repurpose old plastic toys and use them to make a configuration box I’m a sentimental person and it’s hard for me to let go of things, especially if they remind me of good tikes. So when I had to get rid of some old plastic toys because my boys grew out of them I wanted to find something to do with them instead of throwing them or giving them away. I couldn’t keep all of the toys so I did end up giving them away, but I kept a few for a craft idea I had – use them in a configuration box. WHY REPURPOSE OLD TOYS Plastic is not good for the environment and you what to do what you can to help. You don’t like throwing things away. You have unused, broken toys that you can’t really give away in the condition they’re in. The children are out …
