Hi All! Can you believe it's December 1st? 2015 is almost gone! Welcome to the Rose Blossom Blog Hop featuring Close To My Heart's December Stamp Of The Month: Candlelight Garden.
If you just hopped over from the oh-so-creative Shelly Nemitz's blog, Just One Pretty Piece, you are in the right place. If you're starting here, I have a list of the hop participants at the end of this post. Now, on to today's project.
It's been rather dreary here--rainy and cold--so I decided to perk things up with a little home decor piece. Let's take a look:
For this piece, I altered a little 5x5-inch wooden frame that I bought at my local craft store for $1. I covered the front of the frame with paper from Close To My Heart's Zoe paper pack. (The green and white polka dots are so cheerful!) I covered the center of the frame with White Daisy cardstock and masked of the area where my mason jar was going to be. I then blended Glacier and Sorbet inks with my sponge daubers, starting on the mask and them moving outward to make sure the blending was soft. I used the same mask to create a mason jar shaker pocket using my fuse tool and a flip flap. I initially thought I would stamp the jar onto the pocket itself, but the StāzOn ink didn't actually stay on very well, so I stamped the jar onto the White Daisy piece using Black Archival ink. I added some heart glitter by Martha Stewart to my pocket and sealed it up. I set my pocket aside and stamped the flowers in the jar using Champagne ink.
For the flowers and hearts, I did some no line watercoloring. First, I stamped the everything in Champaign ink. (Whisper might work as well.) Then I painted everything with watercolors, being sure to go over the lines so that the lines blended in with the paint. I also made sure to paint the stems of the flowers that are in the jar. I then added my jar pocket. I added part of the flowers and leaves to the edge of the jar inside the frame with dimensional adhesive. I then added the rest of the flowers to the frame using matte medium. While the flowers were drying, I painted the hearts and added them to the sentiment that I had created by stamping in Black Archival ink and heat embossing with clear embossing powder. I popped the sentiment up with dimensional adhesive and then covered the adhesive with the hearts. I added a few gold glitter hearts from the Fundamentals Gold Assortment for a bit of bling. I then added a bit of Glacier extra thick twine to the jar and some iridescent shimmer to the flowers and the hearts.
Here are some close-ups:
And here is the cheerful little piece once again:
I hope you enjoyed my bit of spring. Now hop on over and see what the always-inspiring Morgan Vogt has for you today at TweetScraps. And if you get lost along the way, here's a list of participants:
Kim {that's me!}
Have a wonderfully creative day!
