Spring Lantern

Hello this is Yolie with today's project. It's late May and in Southern California, we are still getting rain. Spring made an appearance with the Super Bloom, but then quickly disappeared. The plan was to make a Summer Lantern, but I'm still in the mood for Spring. I used the Lantern Cage Style and added a faux patina with lots of blooms.

To create the faux patina, I first painted all the pieces, front and back with metallic copper and allowed the paint to completely dry.
I then painted the pieces with black chalkboard paint and before the paint dried, wiped it off with a paper towel.
Next, I painted the pieces with aqua drift and again, before the paint dried, wiped it off with a paper towel.

I then assembled the Lantern using a bit of Beacon Power-Tac adhesives to secure it in place. 

I added pretty blooms and a couple of resin butterflies.

Here's a closeup of the beautiful faux patina. I added the butterfly as doorknob to easily open the lantern door and turn on the LED tea light.

Hoping Summer is delayed so I can enjoy the Spring Lantern a little longer.
Thank you so much for visiting today and enjoy your week.

Supply List:
Lantern Cage Style No. C41C
Plaid Crafts paints: Black Chalkboard, Metallic Copper, Aqua Drift
Beacon Power-Tac adhesive
Flowers
Resin butterflies
LED tea light

A Mother's Nest by Cherry Nelson

Hi there GSLC peeps...Cherry here today on the blog.

I have a soft sweet Mother's day card for you.

I started with the Hanging Sign Number two laser cut.  I painted it gold and than traced my rose image by using the main part of sign and adhered the image to it.

 I then covered my card stock in my chosen papers.

I added my ribbons and adhered the hanging sign piece to card.

From there I added a rose and stamped sentiment and added a nest from the For the Birds set.

Some fun accents were added like eggs, banners, more flowers, and two more chipboard accents including a Victorian corner two piece and Banner Border strip tucked under my bows.

Here it is complete.  I love the bright colors and natural elements.

This will make a lovely greeting for a Mama this Mother's Day.  Thanks so much for visiting the Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Blog. Cherry

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Supplies used:

Hanging Sign Two

For the Birds 

Victorian Corners 2

Banner Border Strips 

Springtime mini frames and cards

Hi everyone and welcome to our blog today.  I hope that all of you have had a nice week and are relaxing on this beautiful spring day and hopefully soaking up some sunshine.

Today I have some fun projects for you to make with lots of our beautiful mini frames in the store and the mini clipboards.  I always love to take out lots of fun pieces and then see where it leads me and I really had lots of fun creating these.

To start the projects you will need to get a package of the mini clipboards, Layered Frame Aria, and the layered Flourishes Aria.  I gently pushed them out of their backgrounds and sanded around the edges.  Then I glued the base pieces and the fancy filigrees that go with it together and let them dry.

For the clipboards I traced them on fancy papers from prima and cut them out with scissors.  Then I glued them on the frames both front and back and let it all dry.  Then I sanded around the edges and chalked them with a med brown chalk ink.

Then I glued it together like you see above.  I am going to find some pretty pictures of my mom and grandmother to put in the frames for Mother's day. Each of them has a tiny easel that I found at Micheals.  They are super cheap and I can change out the picture with the little clip whenever I find a new one so that is a really neat feature.

Here is a closeup of the clipboard frames.  I really love the details in these little chippies.

And then I found a few more styles to play with and put together some fun cards too.  For these I used the Flourished Frame Valerie Rectangle, Flourished Frame Marie and the Flourished Frame Valerie Square.   Each of them has beautiful edges and details that would be fun to paint or emboss or leave just as I did and chalk them a little to finish them.

For this one I used the Valerie rectangle frame and just glued it on layers of pretty papers.  I added an oval stamped image from Stampendous and a pretty pink bow at the bottom.  Super easy and quick.

And for this card I layered pieces of printed papers from the Prima set to make a simple background to put under my die cut and then I inked the frame with chalk ink and glued it down.  Then I die cut the ivory colored circle and added a cute sticker in the middle of it that I had tucked away in my stash.  All I needed was a pretty bow on the side to finish it.

And for my last card I used a few more pieces of the Prima paper and added layers of smokey blue paper to mat it.  This frame I added more chalk ink to darken it a little more and found this cute saying in my Basic Grey stash of stickers.  I think this took all of 10 mins. to make... you gotta love it.

Sorry it's such a long post but I got carried away and thought I would do a big share today.

Here is your shopping list just in case:

Mini clipboards

Layered Frame Aria

Layered Flourishes Aria

Flourished Frame Valerie Rectangle

Flourished Frame Marie

Flourished Frame Valerie Square

Prima Julie Nutting French Flea Market

white, kraft and 2 shades of blue card stock

Stampendous Friendship Assortment stamp set

Scotch Tacky glue

Versa magic Gingerbread chalk ink

Momento Rich Cocoa Ink

Adhesive, paper trimmer, scissors

ribbon

Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Foam Squares

Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure and stop by again!!

Teresa

For the Birds by Cherry Nelson

Hi guys and happy Tuesday.  I have a bright colorful gift set to share today made for Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts.  A happy card and matching little spool birdhouse. 

 These two pieces came together very easy using the sweet For the Birds set.  I left most of the pieces the natural kraft but painted my little eggs with chalk paint to have them stand out.

 I sanded and distressed the eggs a bit and nestled them in the nest.

I added a few bright stickers, flowers, and ribbon and was done.

Wouldn't this make a sweet Spring pick me up for someone?  Thanks for visiting the Gypsy Soul Laser Cut blog.  Cherry

Gypsy Soul Laser Cut Supplies:

For the Bird set