Adorned and adored

Last year I treated myself to the extra large bottle of Dior's J'adore just so that I could have the marvellous gift box with the magnetic clip!  Finally I have had time to work on it just in time for a friend's birthday.  Inspired by the work of Giovanna Zara and her blog, Scrap in Progress, I set to.  The first stage was sticking on die cuts and embellishments, giving it all a coat of gesso and then using Dylusions ink sprays to create a coloured base.

I added a little yellow and orange paint to the base layer and the box was dry brushed with white paint to knock the colours back a bit and create some highlights.  I used Viva Decor Maya Gold paints to bring out the letters and using a sponge, added a slight shimmer over the whole box.  Further highlights were added with gilding waxes. Et voilà!

 

Materials used: 

various die cuts and embellishments

Ranger Multi Medium: matte

Dylusions Ink Sprays: funky fuchsia, post box red, squeezed orange

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: yellow submarine, autumn fire, snowflake

Viva Decor Maya Gold; magenta, lilac

Treasure Gold: white fire

Creative Expressions Metallic Gilding Wax: patina

In the Pink

This month's theme on The Craft Barn calendar challenge is Pink and Butterflies.  I layered die cuts to make the background then painted over with Maya Gold paint, adding detail with Treasure Gold and white paint pen.  The paint is so metallic and glossy it's hard to capture how rich the colours really are.

Materials used:

Viva Maya Gold: magenta, turquoise, lilac

Treasure Gold: white fire

Spellbinders die: flying beauties

assorted die cuts

white paint pen

wire and gems

Coming up roses

I'm not usually a big one for die cutting as the main focus of a card, but recently I bought some bargain dies and thought I'd see what I could come up with.  First a watercoloured background using Spectrum Noir Aqua markers.

Then colouring the die cut roses and the border.  I layered up the roses as I didn't really want the gaps.

 Then put it all together with a bit of background stamping...

...maybe more experimentation needed!

As it does feature colouring I'll enter it in to The Craft Barn weekly challenge using colouring / pens.

Materials used:

Spectrum Noir Aqua markers

Sizzix dies: rose vine,  Marrakesh tile

PaperArtsy: EDY10 bird stamp

free sentiment stamp

Who Me?

A quickie for the weekly challenge over at The Craft Barn, where the theme is Pens!  I stamped the main image and masked it using masking fluid.  The background is created with Distress Ink and the hearts and spirals were stamped on top.  The masking fluid was gently rolled off and the images coloured with Promarkers.

Sorry for the fuzzy photo I couldn't get the camera to not focus on the button...need a camera tutorial...happy to get any tips...

Materials used:

Doo Lally Pip/Lindsay Mason stamp:  cute as a button

various background stamps

Ranger Distress Ink

Letraset Promarkers

Memento Ink: tuxedo black

ribbon and button