Hedgerow Across the field

Hello, it's Heather with you today with a simple project which can either be just a picture or made slightly smaller and used as a card. 

I recently bought a pad with various patterns of paper

When I saw the one in the background of this project I remembered that I had got quite a lot of Gypsy Soul Laser cuts items that I could use to make a hedgerow,

which I am sure anyone can see all over the world. I began by painting all the relevant parts with white Gesso, but I only did one side as they were all going to be stuck down in some way. When the Gesso had dried I used various greens and browns in distress ink to colour the fronds, and finished them off with Cosmic Shimmer gilding polish to give them a bit of a shine, I coloured the grass in green and the foliage in Powder blue gilding polish. Then I began to layer the fern fronds across the bottom of the paper in different directions, I stuck them down with everyday crafting glue and layered some on top to give some texture and density. We get lots of different birds, butterflies and dragonflies around where I live, so I thought I would add some of these to my project. 

I just coloured the birds with various distress inks and gilding polish then I discovered that I had some birds on branches in my stash so coloured those and added them into the hedgerow.

Because the background paper on the project is 12" x 12" it began to look a bit bare across the top and corner so I coloured some more of the little birds and a leafy corner (which I did with green gilding polish) and added these together with a butterfly from the butterfly and dragonfly set to the background.

If you decide to do this smaller, to give as a card, the sentiment can go in the upper half of the picture and I am sure that anyone would be only too pleased to receive it.

Gslcuts items used:

Grass & foliage

Fern fronds

Mini birds & nests shape set

Birds on branches assortment

Butterflies & dragonflies

Leafy corners

Other Items used:

Cosmic shimmer gilding polish

Distress inks

Cosmic shimmer Acrylic Glue

3D Christmas Tree

Hi everyone, I am hoping that this post comes out OK as it is the first time I have done anything like this. My usual genre is making cards, but I was"persuaded" to do this tree, hope you like it.

As the tree is 3D I am unable to show it in one piece, so here is the front and back of the finished tree

 

The three pieces of the tree as they started out.

I cut card to cover the shapes of the trees (being very careful to leave the slots in the shapes clear of paper), then covered each piece with green (pistachio) gilding polish by Creative Expressions. I then embossed these two pieces with Creative Expressions Nordic trees embossing folder(A4 size) and went over it lightly with enchanted gold gilding polish.

I decided to do the base in a different colour, so embossed some red card with Creative Expressions Nordic Tiles embossing folder( 8x8 size) and went over this again with the enchanted gold gilding polish.

I put the two pieces of the tree together, this is a tight fit as the card makes the pieces a little bit thicker, but it does work. There are four little pieces on the bottom of the tree which fit into the four holes on the base.

I began to decorate the tree with some little Christmas bells that I had in my stash. (it is a pity that there is no sound because every time you move the tree the bells jingle), I then covered the GSLC snowflake and fancy star with white gesso and let that dry. I then painted the snowflake white and decorated it with gold, silver and red gemstones, I did the same on the back but then glued this to the star which I had painted mauve.(any colours would be OK here). I left a small opening at the bottom and glued this to the top of the tree. I then added some "snow" around the bottom which is just bits of cotton wool.

I had already covered  quite a few GSLC chipboard pieces with white gesso ready for decoration, so I will show the 4 sides to show these. This is the NOEL piece and two of the snowflakes.

Here are the snowman with his bobble hat, the street lamp and two more snowflakes. The reindeer in the background are some that I cut out from my stash.

I cut down the GLSC flag pieces, coloured them, printed MERRY CHRISTMAS on them and attached them to 2 thin pieces of ribbon so that they went across the whole section.

The GSLC Christmas stocking and the candy canes are on this section together with some little presents that I had cut out and 2 more snowflakes. I then punched out some gold snowflakes and red bows with Martha Stewart punches to go round the bottom on the base. I also added some of the ribbons onto the edges of the tree together with tinsel from my stash.

Thank you for stopping by!

 

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts

Snowflake Shape Set

Fancy Star (Contact Store)

Christmas Shape Set

Doily Box Noel 

Banner Builder Pennant Minis