Claire's Crafty Creations: The Trinket Parlour

Sunday, 16 April 2017

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at WL2C

Good morning folks, I'm back with my second post today and this project is for our new challenge over at We Love 2 Create where our theme is 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes'. As always there is some fabulous crafty stash waiting for our lucky winner from Premium Craft Brands and you don't have to use our products to play along!

I've upcycled a cheap picture frame using my Pan Pastels for my DT project this time around. A began with a coat of white gesso and then some crackle paint. Once that was all dry I applied PanPastels in shades of Yellow and Bright Yellow Green and added some brown for a more distressed look.

The little mouse peeking out from the leaf is made of resin (from the Trinket Parlour) I primed him with matte medium and then painted him with acrylic paints from Indigo Blu. I made a woodgrain background using texture paste through a stencil and then coloured this with Raw Umber and Burnt Sienna PanPastels. I gave it a coat of gloss medium to seal it and give a little shine.

The flowers are made from Foamiran which I die cut and coloured with gelatos and acylic paint. The leaves were die cut from kraft glassine and again, coloured with PanPastels.

I love this little mouse, he's so cute!

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

2 Crafty Critter Crazies: anything goes with a critter

A Bit more time to craft: Anything goes

Creatalicious: anything goes/ add flowers

Creates and Makes: springtime

Creative Craft Cottage: Dies or punches

Shopping our Stash: punches or dies

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Hansa Yellow	Hansa Yellow Shade	Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel	Raw Umber PanPastel	Burnt Sienna
PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers

Friday, 3 February 2017

Anything Goes at Polkadoodles

Hello my lovelies, are you ready for the weekend? I certainly am after another busy week at work. I do love my job but sometimes it's like working at Fawlty Towers not a mental health charity lol. This project is my make for our 'Anything Goes' Challenge over at Polkadoodles. As always we've got a fabulous prize from the Polkadoodles shop and lots of inspiration from my lovely teamies too! The DT are all using Design Sheets for our projects, Nikky crams these with lots of gorgeous elements so you can make a project in minutes!

I've made a little wine glass charm and a tag using elements from one of the design sheets from the Winnie in Wonderland Collection. I used Sheet 2 which you can find here or you can get the whole collection here

I love the white rabbit and couldn't resist making hm the star of the show by putting him in this bezel and adding some charms and little 'Drink Me' bottle (from The Trinket Parlour)