Crafty Milka: Sunflower

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Sunflowers and Spices Shadow Box (Crafting by Designs April GDT)

Hi everyone :-D

I was delighted to be asked to do a Guest Designer project at Crafting by Designs for April's 'Anything Goes' challenge, after being featured in their February spotlight.

I like shadow boxes and tiny decorations, so I decided to make this Sunflowers and Spices Shadow Box, cute mini decoration for my kitchen.

I made a shadow box frame from one sheet of paper from Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', as shown in a video tutorial by Lily. I used 8" x 8" sized paper and got a frame dimensioned 3" x 3" x 5/8".

I embellished shadow box with fussy cut and distressed sunflowers and postage stamps from Graphic 45 'French Country' paper collection, butterflies die-cuts, Eucalyptus bark, Star Anise, four peppercorns and tiny marmalade and jams.

Butterflies are cut of 'Flutter Tree' die-cut. I bought die-cuts last year on eBay, because I don´t have die-cut machine. They were white and I colored them with Distress Inks and water.

I collected Eucalyptus bark last summer when I was visiting Lokrum island. It was dry and fell of the tree, so I didn't damage anything. :-D After I glued pieces of bark on the box frame and was completely dry, I distressed it with Tim Holtz's Distressed Inks.

I got Star Anise last week from my boyfriend/partner. This is the most beautiful spice to me. Nature really creates amazing tings! :-D

To make small marmalade and jams I used glass vials with corks, clear resin, glass colors, paper scraps, distressed inks, raffia and small labels I made using MS Word.

Marmelade d'oranges - Marmelade

Confiture de fraises- Strawberry Jam

Confiture de myrtilles sauvages - Wild Blueberry Jam

List of supplies I used for this project:

Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', 8 x 8

Deja Vu: shadow box frame
French Country: postage stamps

Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', 6 x 6 (Patterns and Solids): sunflowers
Bradley Hand ITC Font
white cardstock paper butterflies from die-cut 'Flutter Tree'
self adhesive white paper
acetate sheet
raffia
glass vials with corks
Star Anise (lat. Illicrum verum)
Eucalyptus bark (lat. Eucalyptus, don´t know the specie, Lokrum island, Croatia)
Black, White and Green Peppercorn (lat. Piper nigrum)
Tim Holtz´s distress inks (Old Paper, Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy, Walnut Stain)
Marabu glass colors (420 Yellow, 436 Vermilion, 455 Dark Ultramarine)
Pritt universal glue
gloss resin gel super-clear
printer
scoring board
scissors
crafting needle
Tim Holt blending tool
Marabu fine paint brush no. 1
nail polish remover acetone
cotton buds
water

I hope you like my project. Hop over at Crafting by Designs and see gorgeous projects The Design Team and other Guest Designers made for this challenge. Do join us in this month's challenge, we are looking forward to see your projects. :-D

I am entering my project to following challenges:

Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge is direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Artistic Inspirations, Challenge #128: Anything Goes with a twist of Flowers

http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.com/

2) Clear it Out Challenge Blog, Theme: Clear it Out, Stash: 2 or more things you are hoarding

Graphic 45 Paper collection 'French Country' (so many scraps)
Gloss vials with corks
raffia
Eucalyptus bark
die-cut 'Flutter Tree'

http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/

3) Crafty Sentiments Designs, More than 1 Fold Challenge

4) Open-Minded Crafting Fun Challenges, Challenge #33 - Food Related

http://open-mindedcraftingfun.blogspot.com/2015/03/challenge-33-food-related.html

http://open-mindedcraftingfun.blogspot.com/

5) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes

This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

6) The Cat's Pajamas, TCPTUE287 - Anything Goes

7) The Pink Elephant, TPE292 - Anything Goes

http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/

8) Through The Craft Room Door, TTCRD Challenge from March 31st to April 6th, Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :-D

Crafty Milka

P.S. Stop by later today, I'll be posting again.

P.S.S. This is a scheduled post, I´m probably sleeping now. :-D

Friday, November 28, 2014

Shadow Box French Country

Hello everyone :-D

I would like to share with you a shadow box I finished a while ago. I called it French Country as a beautiful Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country' I used for this one.

I made shadow box frame from one sheet of paper as shown in video tutorial by Lily. I used 8" x 8" sized paper and got a frame dimensioned 4" x 4" x 1/2".

I wanted this one to be different from all other shadow boxes I made, so I decided to add doors to a frame.

I added small magnets, small metal piece and small metal key, so the doors would not open. When opened, doors are small photo frames. Inside photo frames are photo mats. I made them from one sheet of Graphic 45 paper, rounded edges with paper puncher and distressed edges.

Door knob is an old button I had in my sewing stash. This button made me a problem. It was overweight and the box was falling down when doors were closed, even after I embellished the box.

To make balance, I used easel. I removed easel from an old photo frame, removed old paper, sheet it with Graphic 45 paper and glued it to shadow box frame.

I embellished shadow box with fussy cut images from Graphic 45 'French Country' paper collection, fussy cut printed digital images I found on Internet and butterflies die-cuts I bought on eBay (I don´t have die-cut machine). I added acetate sheet behind the bicycle to make it stable and on hanging clock to create glossy accent.

I made small marmalades using glass vials with corks, glue, glass colors, paper scraps, distressed inks, raffia and small labels I made using MS Word.