Everything is coming up Rosy!

Hello to you and as this is my first blog post going into the New Year,  I would like to wish you and yours a very Happy and Healthy 2017!

My project today is a "Scrapbook in a Tin". 

The idea came about just after Christmas when family had gone their various ways, I decided to pull out my box of moulds for something to do. I find doing this very relaxing, and in a short amount of time I had filled up many of my moulds with Paper Clay and Diamond Resin.

Here a just a few of the Moulds I filled with Paper clay. I do like using this as they are lightweight and easy to colour.

I took this photo just to show you what the tin looked like before I covered it. Just need to do something with the concertina paper inside now.

The first step was to stencil a background on the tin using one of IndigoBlu's stencils called 'Believe'.

Once the paste was dry I gave the tin a coat of White Gee-Soo-Good.

Very carefully I painted around all the flowers and leaves just painting the tin with Cinderella Paint.

Once the paint was dry I mixed up some different colours of the Luscious Pigment Powders, Rose Bronze, Green, Teal Blue, Silver and Porcelain and painted the Roses and leaves then dripped some of the colours top and bottom.
I then used StazOn ink, in Olive Green to highlight the stencil text using my finger.

I felt a sentiment was needed so stamped out one onto white card using the Olive Green Ink from the stamp set 'Butterfly Collector'

Thats all for today, please pop back soon as I am working on a Memory Jar which I will be sharing in the next couple of days.
Take care and Happy Crafting xx

My kind of recycling. Altered Glass Bottles!

Hello and Welcome back to my Craft Blog!

So I was doing some recycling the other day and decided to hang on to the empty sherry bottle (Not mine by the way) as it was such a lovely blue colour!
I had a couple of ideas forming in my head and as soon as I had some time to myself I sat down and started to experiment!
Out came my IndigoBlu Paints & Gesso, some Texture Paste & Masks, Kroma Crackle Gel, Micro Beads, old jewellery and so much more...............!

Happy Easter Sunday to you! xx

The Altered Bottle in all its Glory!

So to begin..........Wash the bottle out and remove label if you can!
 Paint bottle with GeeSoo-Good (Gesso) to  give the other paints a Key to adhere to!
I chose to use black to give the base a darker look!

Start adding texture to the bottle, I used some Dreamweaver embossing paste,
through a mask to give the bottle a pattern and add texture!

I then added White GeeSoo paint to cover up most of the black!

I then mixed up  some Kroma Crackle and  Acrylic Paint. ( Grandmas Teacup colour).
(I did this as Kroma Crackle dries white)
I added this to certain parts of the bottle in a thick layer to make sure it came out in large cracked areas and a thinner layer in other areas!

This is what happens to the thick layer of Kroma Crackle & Paint!

I then used the pearl paints, Sleeping Beauty and Snow white to paint all over the bottle, then went back over and blended the two colours together to get different colour effects!
I then added some chipboard pieces I cut out using my Sizzix Die, and painted with Sleeping Beauty! I then added some Cream coloured Roses from my stash and gave them the Snow White treatment and added a dusting of Blue Mica Powder!

Close up of Paint, Paste and Crackle effects

Now the fun part. Adding old jewellery and some painted metal embellishments.
The embellishments were cut to size and painted with white GeeSoo Good!
I find Crystal effects works brilliantly to stick down all sorts of hard materials!

I covered the top of the bottle with Lace and found a small silver Bezel, filled it with Crystal effects, placed a small resin flower in the middle and filled up the remaining space with tiny white sequins .

In some of the empty spaces,I added more crystal effects and Tiny Glass Beads. I also added the glass beads to the top of the bottle neck and the bottom rim of the bottle! Once dry I painted over them with the Snow White paint!

Top of the Bottle

To finish off the bottle I added flat backed pearls and dusted over the bottle with Mica powders in white and blue to add a bit of shimmer!

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look today! Hope you stop by again! xx