Sunday 9 March 2014

Flower power




Hi crafter's

It's time for the Clarity stamp challenge and it's all about flowers. I bought the fuchsia stamps in the latest members sale. I also bought a wooden jewellery box and furniture from Crafty Individuals. The two together will be perfect for this project. To prepare the box I painted it all over inside and out with white gesso. When dry I painted it with a cream colour acrylic paint for the base colour. I used a pearl acrylic in pink next just sweeping in from the outside edges not covering the whole area. When all the painting has been done ink up the small fuchsia in black Archival  and stamp on to the lid twice. Draw a stem with a black liner pen to join up the flowers. Stamp the fuchsia bud in place then join up with the pen as before.To colour in I used Twinkling H2O's in various shades of pink finishing with a wine colour. Add green for the leaves and stems. Ink up the music stamp in Rueberry Adirondack, stamp randomly over the box lid in second generation ink. Take the hearts and leaves stencil and lay a heart in the middle of the lid. Ink up a piece of sponge with rueberry and dab inside the heart then around the outside, it doesn't matter if you catch some of the leaves.Still with the ink and sponge add some deeper colour to the corners and the edges. Do this around the sides too. The verse I used is Count your garden. I stamped a line of the verse on each side in black Archival. The inside is lined with thin card which has been stamped with the fuchsia stamps and stenciled to make a master board. This is then cut to fit the sides and lid, the bottom is lined with pink felt. The handle and feet were rubbed with golden light gilding wax. Glue the feet and handle on, I used a hot glue gun for extra strength. I'm really pleased how this turned out so glad I bought two of these little boxes, maybe an oriental one next. That's all for now, hope you like it.

Thanks for looking

Sally

14 comments:

  1. Sally that it just beautiful, love it. Thanks for entering the challenge and good luck. The blog is great too its lovely to see crafters sharing their knowledge with a step by step.

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    1. Thanks for the lovely comment Naomi, so glad you liked the box and my blog.

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  2. lovely box. i love the colouring on this looks aged...xx

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  3. Gorgeous box Sally. I also got the fascia stamps from the members sale but I've not yet used them.
    Love the depth and texture you've achieved.
    Good luck in the Challenge and thanks for entering the Clarity Challenge x

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    1. Thanks Yvonne, glad you liked the box. The fuschia stamps are lovely to colour in.

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  4. What a fabulous project. I think those stamps are beautiful and you have used them so well! xx

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    1. Thank you Jane, really appreciate the comment.

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  5. Oh my Sally, your box is beautiful! Thank you for sharing your project and good luck with the Challenge xx

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  6. What a lovely box Sally. That's what I am doing at the moment (but not for the challenge, not going to compete with yours..I would loose

    Lovely work sally, good luck xxx

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  7. Thank you Emma that's very kind, I'm sure your box will be beautiful as all your cards and projects are. x

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  8. Thank you Lynn, much appreciated. x

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