March Kit - Mixed-Media Box Altered

Hello, dear friends! Hope you all are well and stay safe at home! 

Today I'm here to show you my last (so far :) ) project with "Letters of Love" March Kit. I collected all the scraps and cuts-off which I had left from my previous projects and combine them to alter this lovely little box. Created few layers, covered them with gesso, a little bit of spray, few splashes here and there and voila ... turned out quite interesting :)

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March Kit - Two Romantic Cards in Different Shapes

Hello, my dears! Hope you all are doing well and stay safe at home!

Today I'd like to show you my new cards made with "Letters of Love" March Kit. With this kit we get lovely card bases of unusual shapes. Hope you'd like some ideas how easily to transform two of them into interesting eye-catching show-stoppers.

The first card is gate-shaped however unlike usually its horizontal rather than tall. Apart from the kit materials I used a lot of vintage ribbons in matching colors (also available in store) and topped that all with lots of pearls. How do you like this soft vintage mess? :)

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at the back

The second shape I'd like to show you is a swing-card. Seems to be a bit tricky at first but once you get the idea it turns out quite nicely :) Just do your measurements with a paper thoroughly and don't overdo with the embellishments!

and it swings :)

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Take good care of yourself and stay safe!

Hugs,

Olga 

Waffle day

Do you know that today we celebrate Waffle Day? 

"Waffle Day (Swedish: Våffeldagen) is a tradition that is celebrated in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, on March 25, which is also the Feast of the Annunciation, upon which waffles are typically eaten. The shift from the religious celebration to Waffle Day occurred because the Swedish Vårfrudagen, meaning "Our Lady's Day" (the Feast of the Annunciation), sounds similar to Våffeldagen ("waffle day") in faster speech, and so over time Swedes began calling it Waffle Day and celebrating by eating waffles.

 In Norway, where Waffle Day was all but unknown until producers of waffle irons, milk and flour started to promote waffle day in the mid-2010s.  In the United States, National Waffle Day is celebrated in August to commemorate the date of a U.S. patent on a waffle iron". Wikipedia

So it doesn't matter what day are you going to choose to celebrate, it's great occasion to make and eat waffles... or to make them out of air dry clay (using play dough toy) and use it as a center of exploding box?

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Spring flowers

Hi! I love making foamiran flowers in such a strong colors. 

Do you like them?

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Lawender Dreams

- MONDAYS WITH GILL -

So amidst the stresses of everyday life Lavender is such a calming fragrance and for me this project was a very important way of coping with the difficulties life has a habit of throwing it our paths. We may choose to persevere or to succumb but life has so much to offer and so I choose to persevere.

For this project I have used one of my favourite paper pads by Provence by Stamperia  to make a dimensional home decor piece. 

To make the background I took the crackle paper from the pad and scored it at approximately 2" (2.5cm) intervals using a score board. I then folded the paper in both directions to re-inforce the fold lines before laying it down flat and swiping  Dusty Concord and then dried lavender distress oxides from top to bottom. The inks highlight the vertical score lines converting the paper into the look of distressed wood.

I lined four 20 x 20 cm wooden trays with co-ordinating paper adding some muslin on top before cutting four square images from the paper pad and then adding these with foam pads to the center of the trays thus making 4 panels. If you can not find the wooden trays then mounting the images onto a piece of cream card leaving a margin for contrast would work equally well.  I then cut elements out from a second sheet of the same paper shaping them gently before decoupaging them over the original images.

In this image I cut out the bags and also some of the lavender elements to build up my mini picture. I then added a piece of string to one of the bags and a hand tied co-ordinating ribbon bow to the other. I added a small piece of chipboard to the bag.

 For this panel I simply added a double lilac ribbon to the centre of the spray at the bottom of the panel.

For the next panel I cut a piece of ribbon and adhered it to my panel. I then cut out the flower pot and shaped it before layering it over the original one. I then fussy cut some of the flower sprays and put them into the pot along with some of the chipboard flowers snipped from chipboard village scene set before adding a ribbon bow.

I added dimension to this panel by adding a layer of lace close to the bottom before adding some chipboard elements. I tied a lilac ribbon to the handle of the watering can..

To the front of all of my trays I added pieces from the same chipboard set cut to size and then gave everything a dusting with a product called flower soft.

Having completed all of my elements I then affixed these to my original piece of paper that had been adhered to a 12" x 12" piece of MDF to give the whole piece stability.

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