Winging It 2 for Country View Crafts

Create a piece of home decor for a shabby display. 

This is my second inspirational project for the 'winging it' challenge on the Country View Crafts facebook page. It was inspired by looking at home decor projects on Pinterest.

Die cut two wings from the 3D Impresslits 'Winged' embossing folder.

Create a small puddle of watery white acrylic paint and brush over each wing. Heat dry for about 15 seconds and then use kitchen paper dipped into hand gel to rub the paint away from the raised surface. 

Take a block of wood, give it a coat of gesso, dry and then a coat of white acrylic paint and dry.

Using gold embossing powder and stamps create simple designs on all four sides of the block.

Sand the edges and rub the exposed areas with a dark brown distress ink. Paint a bbq stick with gold paint and drill a hole in the cube to take it and glue it in.

Cut the snowflake strip and make up ready to add to the top, also give it a light wash with watery gesso. Punch a hole through the middle and in the extra star. Add these to the cube.

Glue the wings together leaving the central space open to use hot glue to adhere it to the stick and two small stars back to back at the top.

Stamp the label, cut and ink the edges, everything is now ready for the final assembly.

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Materials used -

Tim Holtz -

3D Sizzix Impresslits 'Winged' embossing folder, snowflake rosette strip die

Stampers Anonymous - Simple Sayings CMS155, Christmas Magic CMS247, Letter to Santa CMS053

TH small star punch

Idea-ology Kraft Stock Sparkle Classic

Miscellaneous -

white gesso

white acrylic paint

a bbq stick

Moth Wings are so beautiful

A project for Country View Crafts - 'Winging-it' themed Facebook challenge, November 2024.

 

Take a piece of Tim Holtz scrapbook paper for the background and dip in puddles of faded jeans and frayed burlap. Dry, then roughen the edges  and blend over with faded jeans and scorched timber.

Gather neutral papers for a collage.

Tie a small bundle of sprayed dried and sprayed seedheads, add white berry.

Assemble together, paint small cones with a topping of white paint.

The sentiment I chose reflects how I feel about the world at the moment, not because it is coming up Christmas. I'll be making my Christmas cards in the next few weeks.

My winged element is one of the Tim Holtz moths which I always find too shiny for me so I have given it a coat of matte collage medium.

The splatters on the edges of the frames are cut from some 49 and Market Rub-0n transfers

Once everything has been glued into the frame splatter with some watery white acrylic paint and add cones and snow.

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Tim Holtz - 

Transparent Moths

Layering Stencil - Deco Feather

Stampers Anonymous - Sentiment stamp - Simple Sayings

Watercolor Pencils

49 and Market Teal Rub-on transfer set

Halloween Collage Panel - Country View Crafts Design Team

Having had a playtime creating some potential halloween backgrounds (see post) I've taken the red one to use but before I created the collage I splattered some Barn Door Distress Spritz over it to give it some highlights.

This is my second inspiration project for October's Country View Challenges theme on FaceBook.

The Wicked Undertaker 

It is Victorian England and one of the creepiest crime waves in the East of London is surging. Anatomists and surgeons are needing an ever-increasing amount of bodies to advance their research in the study of human anatomy, and, as a result, they turn a blind eye to the dead body trade that is booming. Individuals and gangs are turning to body snatching (digging up graves to extract bodies) and selling them to make a neat profit— these are the scary body snatchers known as the London Burkers (burking meaning ‘killing someone for their marketable cadaver’). A gang led by John Bishop and Thomas Williams, who began their crimes by robbing fresh graves, quickly graduate to murder for an even fresher corpse to sell to the unscrupulous anatomists who are working with such criminals very regularly. Frightening!

Here is one of the unethical undertakers, Bertie Burns who engages in some of the underhand activities. At times bodies are very hard to come by, and sometimes, because desperate times call for desperate measures, the trade in human bodies also includes body parts, and often those who need bodies settle for body parts instead and Mr Burns makes a pretty penny.

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Materials

Dies Sizzix - Specimen,

Stampers Anonymous - Apothecary CMS138,  

Distress Inks - Seedless Preserves, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Vintage Photo, Ground Espresso, Scorched Timber

Distress Spritz - Barn Door, Fossilized Amber

Idea-ology  Corked Vials, Snippets Curator, Film Strip Ribbon, Muse Token - Halloween, Found Framed Portraits - Halloween, Remnant Rubs - Curiosities, Mummy Cloth, corked glass vials

Halloween Twilight Panel - Country View Crafts Design Team

Twilight 

Imagine it's dusk, there's a clear starlit sky and the moon is bright and golden and shining down across the wooded landscape. Slowly the nocturnal creatures are emerging into the shadows and a gentle breeze is beginning to rise. The leaves are rustling and whispering together softly whilst beautiful spidery sculptures of silvery threads entwine between them often glistening as they catch the light of the full moon. Bats are seen swooping and flying between the trees looking for their food and are beginning to gather together before migrating or hibernating. A large black bird with shimmering plumage alights on a branch of the gnarled tree amd cautiously surveys the area around him.  

It is October 31st, it is twilight and so a Halloween night of chills and tension begins.

Process Steps

I had such fun putting this panel together I thought I would frame it to go on the sideboard at Halloween. When I'd finished I also took some close detail photos. I love how 3D it looks now.

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Supplies

Distress Inks - Scattered Straw, Bundled Sage, Evergreen Bough, Cracked Pistachio, Forest Moss, Pine Needles, Salty Ocean, Scorched Timber, Walnut Stain, Scattered Straw

Distress Spritz - Weathered Wood, Peacock Feathers

Distress Sprays - Black Soot, Mica Spray Brushed Pewter

Distress Watercolor Pencils - Scorched Timber, Iced Spruce

Distress Crayon - Peeled Paint

Distress Paint - Rusty Hinge

Distress Embossing Glaze - Hickory Smoke

Ranger Embossing Powder - Black

Distress Crayons - Fossilized Amber, Peacock Feathers, Peeled Paint

Sizzix Dies - Vault Lovebirds, Funky Wreaths, Festive Gatherings, Mixed Media Halloween

Idea-ology -  Muse Tokens - Halloween, Metal Quote Band Ephera Snippets - Curator, Remnant Rubs - Curiosities, Mini Pumpkins, Boneyard

Stampers Anonymous - Halloween CMS093, Halloween 2 CMS 113

Treasure Gold - Aquamarine, Treasure Silver

Rust inspired D'Oxides

 I love playing with inks and colours to produce different layers of for distressed backgrounds. As it's Halloween month I thought I would try out rust effects with distress oxides to see what happened. I love the result.

On A4 card. Used scorched timber, walnut stain, vintage photo, hickory smoke D'oxides, splattered and dipped into walnut stain Spritz then mixed left over spritz to vintage photo DO and water and dipped into it. Did another puddle of vintage photo and water and dipped into it some more. Finally spritzed water droplets and dried.

Cut card into 3 pieces.....

.... and got a gorgeous layered dipped, drippy, distressed effect.

I make very few projects for Halloween usually and I've already got my Country View Challenge ones made and scheduled so I think I'll chop these three pieces in half again and aim to create 6 small 10.4 x 9.7 cm panels.

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Autumn Richness 3 - Berry Panels

 This is my last project post for the September 24 challenge at Country View Crafts challenges on FaceBook. Two little panels that grew to four and now five. I've added one more to complete the series.

            Here they are as a completed collection.

I made a little torn tab booklet to add them to with some collage paper elements.

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