I bought a little 3d 'naked' box by Twiddleybitz and decided to play around with inks and things the other night. I was reading something Tim Holtz was doing and it gave me the idea to use perfect pearls powder that he had mixed in a mini mister with water. So of course I hadn't got the mini mister so I dropped a bit of the powder onto a craft sheet and sprayed some water on it. It worked ok and I painted the box and insides with it. I then stamped it with a Hero Arts tree stamp which I now seem to use all the time, it was one that Leonie and Carley used at the workshop.Then I did the same with the butterflies and gold perfect pearls and stuck them on. The little blue butterfly was an acrylic stamp which I stamped onto grungeboard and then painted with watered distress ink. I have a lovely photo of my mum when she was young inside and the box is going to sit in front of me on my shelf. I made a tag too with some spritzy perfect pearls again and some stamps (the owl is a Dawn Bibby one ) and the flowers at the top are Wendy Vecchi. Yep, I used the tree stamp again to go round the edges !
The other thing today, in Shimelle's class was to think about goals..hmmmm well I would have said a few months ago that was to have a craft room. I think that mainly now the boys have gone, I would like to have time to cook nice meals again in the evenings instead of always being in a rush as one boy would be going out and one coming in - so it would be nice to get some recipe books out again. Also to try and improve my photography too ...
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Those sound like great goals - ones that I can relate to! I'm always trying to get healthy meals on the table and improve my photography. Good luck with those!! (Stopping by from Shimelle's class.)
Great post. Love that you did something crafty.
Great goals. My camera is broken at the moment and I'm feeling ridiculously annoyed about it! Thanks for stopping by my blog..much appreciated.
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