Tea Composition Box by Dianna

Hi everyone! This was my first shabby styled project and also was my mother's day gift to my mom. We both love tea so I made her something that matched her new bedroom colors and her love of tea.

I painted Gina's Designs Composition Box white and then used a light beige to create a white washed look (which you cannot see but is there).  I used Graphic 45 Botanical Tea paper and fussy cut the birds, teapot and rose.  I tore the teal paper and distressed it for the background.  Then I used a teal spritz on Gina's Designs Cardstock Doily. 

The bottom box has a lace back and an Art Deco brooch with a black ribbon bow.  I stamped a Victorian lady stamp and left it black and white except for the hat and dress which I colored with Copic markers. 

The second box's back was papered with Graphic 45 Botanical Tea and the humming birds. The butterfly is from Gina's Designs and I used Sparkling H20's. The key was painted white then silver to create a marbled effect. The yellow rose is from Graphic 45 and the embossed cut outs were distressed with ink.  I used a row of seed pearls on the edge of the embossed cut out. The third box has 1/2 of a Gina's Designs Cardstock Doily lightly distressed. The teal button is one of two used in the box. The tea cup and spoon is from Gina's and were painted white then chalk ink was applied. The flower stamp is from Graphic 45. The flowers were white and spritzed with teal paint, allowed to dry then spritzed again with a silver mist. The little frame is actually a ball label holder that I got on clearance. The frame was a bright gold so I lightly painted white then went over it with a silver sharpie. I put black velvet ribbon behind it and used buttons from my stash. 

Below is a Composition Box that I did for Halloween 2014.  I wanted to show how different the Composition Box looks with different ideas.  

Thank you for looking :)

Gina's Designs Items Used

Composition Box

Tea Time Shape and Border Set

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Butterflies and Dragonflies

You Make Me Smile Mini Album

Hello friends and welcome to Gina's Designs Blog today!  This is Debbie with you today sharing a mini album I made from scratch.  The cover, spine and back cover are made with some pieces of chipboard I had in my stash.  

I started this album out by covering it with patterned paper.  I have several of these older K and Company paper pads with matching embellishments so I decided to start making mini albums with them.  So far I've made 4 or 5, but love the colors on this one the most. I covered the spine with some lacy flower trim.

 The technique I used on the chipboard pieces is a several step process but love how it all turned out.  I started out by coating all the pieces with gesso.  

Step 2 is to paint with acrylic paint.

Step 3 emboss with a Hologram embossing powder- Hologram embossing powder has a glittery texture to it.

Step 4 is to spray with glimmer mist or your favorite spray and reheat the chipboard while the misting is still wet.  This should complete all your chipboard pieces.  

The next step is to decorate the front of your album!

 In this photo you can see that I added a little texture with modeling paste and a stencil.

Add flower on top of your Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Add your butterflies from the Butterflies & Dragonflies set.

 A few pages on the inside of the mini.  There are several pockets for tags and photos or keepsakes.

Gina's Designs Products used:

 Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Butterflies & Dragonflies 

Words and phrases 2

Flourish Set Amanda

Thanks for stopping by Gina's blog today! 

Debbie

"The Best is Yet to Be" Mixed Media Canvas

Hello there crafty people! Lynne here with a 12 x 12 mixed media canvas (Finnabair style, or at least my version!) I'm really happy with the way this came out and love the clock piece as a frame.

I mod-podged crumpled tissue paper onto the canvas, primed all the pieces separately with gesso, then attached the clock, flowers, letters and butterflies before sponge painting the surface with gold acrylic paint. (Since everything is painted over, projects like this are a great way to use up the ugly or weird-colored flowers and other embellishments in your stash!) Gold and blue spray mists finished the main area, then the words were rubbed with gold and brown Gelatos and brushed with blue mist to make them stand out more. The dragonfly and butterfly wings were folded up for dimension and they were brushed with the blue mist as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look at my latest creation!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Skeleton clocks

Butterflies and Dragonflies

Other Products Used

misc. flowers and leaves

gesso

acrylic paint

spray mists

mod podge

tissue paper

misc. letters

True Colours layout

Hi-Lynne here! I absolutely love the song "True Colours" by Cyndi Lauper; I know I'm dating myself here-yes, I'm THAT old!! So I decided to create a page inspired by the lyrics:

The border piece echoed the damask pattern in the background paper and the butterflies added a nice variation to the fussy-cut clip art butterflies I used that a lovely fellow scrapper sent me a while back.

 I dry-embossed the border pieces, then painted them with gesso then with pearlized acrylic paint. I dabbed them lightly with a yellow spray mist, then gently rubbed them with light pink ink to create a subtle rainbow effect.

The butterflies were dry-embossed as well, then primed with gesso.  I brushed them with Lindy's Magical powder, then heat-embossed the raised areas with a pearlized embossing powder.











I love the effects you can create on these chipboard pieces with both dry and heat embossing and with different mediums; they're so versatile!

Have a terrific week and be sure to show YOUR true colours! hugs!

Gina's Products Used

Banner Border Strips

                Spring Shape Set (butterflies)

Butterflies and Dragonflies



Other Products Used

Ombre Dreams papers

Darice embossing folder

Balzer Designs stencil

Martha Stewart and Fiskars punches

Metallic and Enameled Winged Things

Hi Everyone! Barb here with a set of four note cards that I made for a friend.

I love things that look aged. I also love taking organic things like bugs or leaves and giving them a metallic or enameled look. That mix of industrial and natural just does something for me.

I began by making the metallic butterfly and dragonfly. First I coated them with Brilliance Pearlescent Chocolate. 

I love this ink for its more gentle metallic look - brown, but with a hint of silver.

Next I cut out paper for the background of the wings and glued it on.

Finally, I used every metallic available in the mini-Delicata inks. I don't mind being messy, so I just tapped my finger in the inks and then lightly dabbed at the dragonfly and butterfly in various places.

I then adhered them to the background that I'd already prepared, using rubber stamps and inks.

The enameled butterfly and dragonfly were so simple to do! For these, I used my pico embellishers in white and bronze. I simply washed over the wings in white, waited a few minutes to let it set, then went over the body with the bronze color.

I love the shiny enamel look that the pico embellishers lend to my projects!

These were fairly simple, fun cards to make. Thanks for looking and sharing in my fun! 

'Til next week, take care and happy crafting!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Butterflies & Dragonflies

Other Products Used

Brilliance inks in Pearlescent Chocolate, Olive and Poppy

Imagine Crafts Delicata Metallic Inks

Ranger Distress Inks

irRESISTibles in Wedding White and Bronze

Rubber Stamps Used

Leaves by Fred B. Mullet

Fern by RubberMoon

Newsprint Background by Posh Impression

Skinny Weeds -  Maker Unknown

Whimsical Cards With Rubbermoon Stamps

 Hi! Lynne here with some "just because" cards  (which happen to be my favorite kind of cards to give!) Creating these cards was interesting for me, as I very seldom venture into the wild world of stamping, but I had a lot of fun with these! 

The chipboard frame and dragonflies were heat-embossed with Lindy's
Stamp Gang powder, then sponged with purple ink- I really love purple,
as you can see!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Flourished Frames Evie

Butterflies and Dragonflies

Rubbermoon Stamps