Chipboard Embellishments

Hi everyone! Amylove here! I enjoy making embellishments and Gina's chipboard pieces are perfect for making little embellishments!! I created these for a swap I am in and I am sure my swap partner will be pleased.

All of the details worked out so well! If you would like to see the process I used to create these embellishments, please follow this link to my tutorial:

Embellishment Tutorial

Products used:

Gina's Designs

Miniature Clipboards

For the Birds Set

Keys & Plates Shape Set

My Stash

black gesso

distress ink

crackle glaze

precious metals liquid

trims

acrylic paint

"Timeless Memories" Folio by Kim C.

This week I have made a mini album or folio for a benefit for someone that lost their home to a very major fire.  I used the tutorial from My Sisters Scrapper on youtube.  This was very quick to make.  I love the way it came out.

The front cover I used words from Words & Phrases #1 which I painted with snowtex to give them some dimension.  I cut a clock from Skeleton Clocks Set; half was used on the cover and the other half on the inside.  I used snowtex on them and then I used distress ink on it also.  I added flowers and twine from my stash.  I also added dew drops from The Robin's Nest.

I then used a key and keyhole from the Keys & Plates set.  I used snowtex on them, then I used distress inks to give them an aged look.  I used on the edge of the folio hinges from the Hinges Set.  Again I used snowtex and distress inks to give them an aged look.

The inside of the folio will hold 15 photos in the waterfall section.  On the opposite side is a pocket with tags with the other half of the skeleton clock. Flowers and twine from my stash. were also added.

I hope you like what I have created this week.

Thanks for stopping!!

Kim :)

Gina's Designs Items Used:

Skeleton Clocks

Keys & Plates

Word & Phrases

Hinges

The Robin's Nest Item Used:

Dew Drops

Other Items Used:

Wild Orchid Craft Flowers

Twine

Stamins

Distress Inks: Vintage Photo/Black Soot

Bo Bunny Paper: Timepiece Collection

Snowtex

A Fun Fairy Door

Hello!!! Nichola here, with a wee fairy door project to share. Isn't it cute as buttons?!

To create this adorable fairy entrance I've used Gina's Fairy Door 'Deann', Faux Metal Number Plates and Keys & Plates Shape Set.

In this example I've used the stone door frame piece that comes with the Fairy Door as a stencil and applied a layer of spackling to give the texture of a stone doorway.

To create the illusion that the door is made of wooden planks, I've scored the chipboard with a stylus before painting. If you don't have a stylus, you could press very hard with a ball point pen to create the grooves. A light wash of dark paint allowed to seep into the impressed lines will emphasize the effect.

The 'hinges' are created by cutting a large keyhole in half, applying to the door and trimming.

Fairy doors are pretty dang adorable and an excellent way to include a bit of magic in your household. Be sure to get creative with them by adding a little plant, a welcome mat and other accessories... great curb appeal will be sure to entice the wee folk into your home ;)

Fairy Door 'Deann'
Faux Metal Number Plates
Keys & Plates Shape Set

Acrylic paint
Small metal brads
Spackling
Glue

The Sky is the Limit Art Journal Page

Hello everyone  Barbara here.  Today I thought I would do a bit of art journaling.  I love using my Gina's chipboard, and since we are cross promoting with The Robin's Nest this month, I knew these two products would work beautifully together.

To begin, I pulled out my Cottonwood Arts Canvas Notebook.  I love this book because it has canvas covered chipboard pages, making it so sturdy for adding heavier embellishments to the pages.

Cut The Robin's Nest Fleur/Stripe Tropicana paper in half, adhere Stripe piece to the left and the Fleur piece to the right, using matte medium.

Spritz paper with water and randomly remove only the top layer of this two-sided paper, leaving the stripe or the Fleur side showing.  This looks really cool, but not sure if the camera is picking up this cool textured effect.

Add torn strips of joint tape to the center and sides of both pages to disguise the paper edges that did not cover the entire pages.

Paint both pages with a coat of the Vintage Mustard chalk paint, wipe away with a baby wipe or damp paper towel.  Dry thoroughly.

 Mix Ultra-Matte Varnish with Burnt Sienna Fluid Acrylic to make a glaze and spread over pages with a Spatula.  This will enhance all of the textures from the papers and joint tape.

To tone down the orange color, I spread the Medium Grey Antiquing Creme over both pages with a baby wipe (or damp paper towel).  I don't know if the camera can really pick this up, but I think it looks like marble, or maybe granite.  What do you think?

Paint a thin line of the Cerulean Blue Fluid Acrylic along the top edge, hold book vertically and spritz with lots of water to make the fluid acrylic run and leave these beautiful striations. 

Place open balloon frame onto polka dot side of The Robin's Nest Smoky Chevron paper and trace around it with a pencil; cut out.  .

 Paint a wash of the Patina Green Antiquing Creme with water over the paper, let dry.

 Paint open balloon frame with a wash of Quinachridone Violet mixed with water.

 Adhere paper balloon cutout to page.

Glue black birdcage veil trim to the back of the balloon, let dry.  

 Trim excess veil from around chipboard and adhere over print paper.

 Cut the checkerboard texture sheet into irregular shapes and paint with Carbon Black acrylic paint.  Apply a coat of Clear Crackle Glaze over the checkerboard squares.  (TIP: I used my finger to spread the crackle glaze).

Paint compass with Burnt Umber fluid acrylic.  When dry, add Golden Opal Twinkling H20 for extra shimmer.

Adhere to page and add highlights around the compass with Titanium White antiquing creme a a wet paint brush.  Use your finger to wipe off any excess creme as you work your way around the compass.

Stamp Morroccan Fence and Crackle background stamps with black archival ink all over background for added texture.

I found these puffy stickers in my stash, so I used them to write "The Sky is the Limit".  I used a bit of white glue to ensure they were adhered well.

Paint "Explore" word ribbon, key plate, and balloon basket with Burnt Umber fluid acrylic. 

Use your finger to apply English Red Oxide and Patina Green antiquing creme over key plate and the "Explore" banner, then Iridescent Gold fluid acrylic to give it a super metal look.  Dab tiny spots of Patina Green over that to bring back some patina.  Insert tiny brads through holes in key plate and adhere to balloon.

 Adhere basket to a scrap of the Diamonds paper and trim excess when dry.

Adhere the key plate to the balloon, add some jewelry chain between the balloon and basket and adhere to page.

Adhere the Explore word banner to the top of the balloon.

Cut two banners from the sheet and paint with Primary Magenta mixed with Titanium White fluid acrylics.  When dry, add tiny letter stickers to spell out "There are no limits".  Adhere to balloon.

I used Titanium White fluid acrylic applied to a bottle cap to make circles on both pages.  Imperfection is key, here.  I seems to look better if the circles are not perfect.  I also added some white splatters about the page.

I added shading to the puffy sticker letters with the liquid pencil to help them pop off the page. Because it is rewettable, I was able to use a baby wipe to remove any areas where I felt there was too much shadow.

The very last thing was to add some bling, so I used The Robin's Nest Blue Skies Archival Seeds, which just happened to be the right color, around the page.  I think they really added just the right touch.

Supplies:

Gina's Designs:

Mini Display Tray - Hot Air Balloon;  
Texture Sheet Checkerboard; 
Compass; 
Texture Sheets Fiesta;
 Keys and Plates; 
Word Ribbons 3;

Robin's Nest:

 Tropicana Fleur cardstock;
Saffron Diamonds cardstock;  
Blue Skies Archival Seeds

Cottonwood Arts A2 Canvas Notebook (6.75 x 12) Journal

DecoArt Media™: Matte Medium; Ultra-Matte Varnish, Clear Crackle Glaze;   Antiquing Creme: Medium Grey, Titanium White; Fluid Acrylics:  Carbon Black, Burnt Sienna, Quinachridone Violet, Burnt Umber, Primary Magenta, Titanium White, Interference Gold

ColourArte: Twinkling H20s Golden Opal

Drywall Joint Tape (self-adhesive)

Vintage Mustard chalk paint (FolkArt)

Moroccan Fence stamp (LaBlanche)

Crackle clear stamp (Kaisercraft)

Black Archival Ink (Ranger)

Kraft Mini Black Alphabet sticker (Jillibean)

Tiny screw top brads (Tim Holtz)

Jewelry chain (Hobby Lobby Metal Gallery)

Plastic bottle cap

Glossy Accents (Ranger)

Derivan Liquid Pencil (Rewettable)

As always, I hope you enjoyed my step-out tutorial, and that I have inspired you a bit to do some art journaling, especially now that you see how beautifully The Robin's Nest papers work with Gina's spectacular, yes, I said it, spectacular, laser cut chipboard.  It just doesn't get any better than that!

Please check out the links to The Robin's Nest Store and Blog and of course check out all the things happening over at Gina's Store and Facebook Group.


So, thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful and creative weekend!  Oh, and feel free to visit me at my blog, Black Hole Art Studio. There is always something going on there, too.  


Barbara

"Cherish" Trinket Box by Kim C.

Hello Everyone!

On this fine Saturday, I am sharing my project created with one of Gina's boxes.

This is the "Trinket Box".  I love to alter all sorts of boxes and when I saw this one I knew I had to have it and make it beautiful!!

I papered the top and sides of the box and then used gesso along the edges.  I didn't paint this box at all, I left it its natural color, which I absolutely love!  The color of the pieces is just so very rich and dark!

 I added lace and some black trim all away around the box and used gesso to soften the black trim.  A key plate was added to the front of the box.  I painted the key plate with brown paint mixed with snowtex to give it some dimension.  I then inked it with distress ink and added some gesso to soften it just a little bit. Flat back pearls were added to resemble bolts.  I adhered some wooden pieces to the bottom for feet.

On the box lid I added a word piece that I painted with white gesso and then added some snowtex for dimension. It was sprayed with homemade glimmer mist to give it some color.  I then used distress inks and gesso to soften it up.  I did the same technique to the butterfly.  I also added a piece from the Delicate Frames & Ornament set.  I painted it green and inked it with black distress ink and to finish it off I used my finger to add gesso to soften it.  I then added flowers, stamens and a pearl spray to finish off the corner.

At the opposite corner I used one of the Grape Vine pieces as a base for the flower cluster.  I painted the vine with green paint, inked it with black distress ink and softened it up with gesso.

This box was so easy and fun to do.  It came together very quick and easy.  I hope you like this project and if you haven't already you need to visit Gina's store!  She has amazing products!!

Gina's Designs Used:

Trinket Box

Grape Vine

Delicate Frames & Ornaments Set

10 Word Set

Keys & Plates Set

Other items used:

Graphic 45 Paper

Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers

Black Soot Distress Ink

Glimmer Mist

Snowtex

Gesso

Trim/Lace

Thanks for looking, Kim :)

Streampunk Chest

Happy Friday! I hope you are all well and have some great plans for this weekend. What I have for you today is what I call my yearly steampunk project! On the top, I used the medium dressform from the Dressform and Wings Shape Set. The set come with three different sizes!  By the bottom of the dressform is one of the clock hands from the Clock Hands Shapes Set. The Heart with Gears is coming soon to the store. You can substitute with one of the hearts from the Steampunk Hearts set.

The drawers have one of the plates from the keys and plates set, several gears, and gears that were part of the Steampunk Frame.  Below you can see the smallest size dressform and wings!

This air balloon was part of the Steampunk Frame with the gear on the left added from the Gears Shape Set.

On this side,  you can see I attached part of the Texture Plate - Gears to it.

This is a close-up. I applied different colors of inks to the raw chipboard. In the picture below, you can see that I used the same texture sheet with texture paste. Once the texture paste was dry, I applied different purple inks over the top of it.

There are several different texture sheets in Gina's Store. Stop by and check them out!



Don't forget Gina's Designs is celebrating three years of being in business so you will get a

Free Birthday Shape Set with all orders over $20.00 during the month of May! 



If you are not already a member of Gina's Designs Craft Group on Facebook, get over there and join! We will be announcing other fun birthday activities there!



Have a great day!

Mary

Gina's Designs Products

Clock Hands Shape Set

Dressforms & Wings Shape Set

Steampunk Frame

Texture Sheet Gears

Gears Shape Set

Keys & Plates Shape Set

Heart of Gears (Coming Soon!!) - you could substitute with Steampunk Hearts