AngelDream Crafts

Friday, 30 May 2014

Mixed Media Easel Card Tutorial PT 3 Start to finish

Free As A Bird Book Box

Hello Friends! Today I have a lovely project to share. I have created a Bird Themed Book Box. I love how this came out, mostly in part to Gina's amazing book box of course but also, I love the huge key with the birds!

In this photo you can see some of Gina's feathers which I used texture paste, and some embossing powders to achieve the look. I wanted them to match the coloring of the birds on the paper. I then added a few little flowers and some laces and trims around the edge of the book box.

Here is a close up of the Bird Wall Art Key, I did a lot of work on this, using texture paste, embossing powders and also some Americana Old Gold paint on it as well, love all that texture!

Here is the inside of the box, I decorated it simply with papers from the paper line and some laces from Craftsupplies1.

I added a cute little metal handle to the outside of the box and that finished it off nicely.

Thanks for stopping by today to take a peek!

Gina's Designs Items Used

Large Book Box

Bird Wall Art Key

Feathers Shape Set

Other Products Used

Tim Holtz Wallflower Paper

All Laces, Doily and Flowers from Craftsupplies1

Wooden Believe Charm from WhichCraft

Wood Sentiment & Letters from My Stash

Metal Handle from Butterbeescraps

Americana Old Gold Paint

Stampendous Shabby White Embossing Powder

Crackle Accents

Glossy Accents

Rusty Hinge Distress Ink

Shimmerz Texturez Gold Mine

Mixed Media Easel Card Tutorial Start to Finish PT 2

Friday, 23 May 2014

Happy Friday everyone! Today I would like to share a fun little project I created to hang on my wall in my kitchen. These are my Shabby Cottage Window Shadowboxes, which are made from Gina's Bagatelle Boxes.

I really love these little bagatelle boxes, they come in lots of different sizes, and you can purchase them in a set of 12! I had a lot of fun with these, and got out the Large Cottage Windows to place over the top of the boxes to create the illusion of looking in a cottage window. I did a lot of mixed media work on the windows, and it was fun to get my hands dirty!

You can see in the first one, several of Gina's other pieces, such as the postage stamp frames, gears, diamond texture sheet, stackable labels set, and a few pieces from the spring shape set as well. I embossed, painted and stamped on most of them and of course added some laces for a finishing touch.