Altered Embroidery Hoop for Gina's Designs Lasercuts

 Good morning friends! Today I would like to share my altered embroidery hoop with you. I have had this idea for a while and finally got to bring it to life!  I started off by painting the hoop white and adding some gorgeous beaded lace around the edge. The back piece is some Bo Bunny paper I had in my stash. I layered sprays, stencils and stamps to give it a grungy feel.

 The butterfly of gears is one of my all time favorite pieces of Gina's! I first painted it and then used some rust Gilders Paste over it. I then used my script stamp on top.  I added a Prima junkyard finding lamp for the center of the body.

 I did the same basic technique for the Chain Frame, but used Silver Gilder's Paste this time and some fine black embossing powder to finish it off.

I layered on some metal, flowers and used some old paint brushes I had as well. This gives those old bushes that you would normal toss out a second lease on life. I added some paint and stamp to them as well to pick up on the background of the piece.

I hope you like my piece this week, I always have fun using Gina's chippys!

Thanks for stopping by!

Gina's Designs Items Used

Butterfly of Gears

Chain and Gears Frame

Other Items Used

Tim Holtz Measuring Tape

Prima Metal and Wood

Appliques, Flowers, Lace and Bead Caps from Kraftsupplies4U

Indigo Blue Stamps

Rust and Silver Gilders Paste

Distress Ink Sprays

Embroidery Hoop and Brushes From My Stash

Graffitti Inspired Box A Gina's Designs DT Project

Hello and happy Friday friends! Today I would like to share with you my graffiti inspired memory box. I had a lot of fun with this and I hope the friend it is going to will be just as happy with it as I am. Gina has a great selection of these 5 x 7 boxes. This one was a custom order for me, but you can get any of the ATC Shrines in a 5 x 7 size. Just email Gina and ask!

 

I used a simple paint technique on the box itself then covered it with some Kaisercraft basecoat paper. I love this paper as I looks like brick walls.  This was the beginnings of my graffiti look.

 

Above here you can see the top of the box. I have used one of the stackable labels from Gina's and some sticker words on top of it. I painted the label a soft blue and then distressed it with some Prima chalk ink.

 

On the back, sides and inside of the box I did a lot of mixed media work. I used various stencils and stamps to make it have a very urban feel. You can also see at the top right corner I have added one of Gina's Steampunk doilies and a metal hinge on the side as well.

 The new chain and gear frames are so much fun to work with. I embossed them with some platinum embossing powder. The background you can see more of my texture paste in script and boxed letters.

 

I hope you will stop over to the store today and pick up one of these memory boxes, they are super fun to alter!

Thanks!

 

Gina's Designs Items Used

5 x 7 Memory Box

Chain and Gears Frame

Stackable Labels

Steampunk Doilies

Hanging Clock

 

Other Items used

Kaisercraft Basecoat Paper

Metal from Butterbeescraps

Petaloo Flowers

Crafters Workshop Stencil

Artist Cellar Stencil

Dina Wakley Stencil

Lindy's Stamp Gang Spray

Ranger Embossing Powder

Gilder's Paste Rust