Pumpkin Carving

Happy Saturday, everyone! I have a good friend who made me a set of pumpkins for Halloween and wanted to have a spot to showcase them. I used a GSL Composition Display Stand (coming soon) for the setting and the project came together in a jif. 

The display stand is basically a box with a tall rear wall. Here are the pieces along with the papers I chose from Graphic 45's gorgeous Happy Haunting collection.

I added a coordinating checked paper from Graphic 45's Mother Goose collection for the surface of the stand.  It looked great as-is but I decided to add a pumpkin detail to the front. I cut a section out of a GSL Pumpkin Border and it fit perfectly.

The pumpkin outline was painted black then glued to orange cardstock.

Here's a close-up of the pumpkin carving scene. I added a miniature carving knife and a few seeds I made from polymer clay.

Thanks for stopping by!

GSL Products Used

Composition Display Stand (coming soon)

Pumpkin Border

Other Supplies Used

Tacky glue

Acrylic Paint

Graphic 45 Happy Haunting

Graphic 45 Mother Goose

Orange cardstock

Polymer clay

Miniature carving knife

 

 

Mini Bath & Body Display

Happy Saturday, everyone! I have a little bath and body display to share today that uses the brand new GSL Composition Display Stand (coming soon). This piece could be used for so many things! I considered setting it for a wedding cake, birthday, cocktail party, bake sale, market stand, so many possibilities. I finally settled on a little soap kiosk. I had a small handmade soap business a few years ago and this brings back memories.

The display stand is made up of six pieces that assemble easily with tacky glue.

I used a rubber band to hold the piece together while the glue dried.

The piece comes with two shelves, I only needed one of them for what I had in mind so set aside the other for a future project (yay, future project!). The shelf was painted with white acrylic paint. All of the paper used in this project is from Stamperia's Secrets of India collection.

Most of the soap I made for this piece are just small bar-shaped chunks of polymer clay. I did, however make an actual tiny embedded heart with melt and pour soap and my smallest polymer clay cutters. I filled the heart cutter with pink soap and set it aside. After it set I unmolded it and set the heart inside the round mold then poured clear soap around it.

Once that was set I was able to unmold and slice it up. So stinking cute!

 

I wanted to include a little gift basket of bath products in this display, the GSL Tiny Octagon Planter Set was perfect. It comes with two sizes included, ½ inch tall and ¾ inch tall. 

I assembled the ¾ inch one and painted it white. It was trimmed with thin white satin ribbon and a white paper flower.

The gift basket was filled with a bar of each of the soaps, a resin rubber ducky and a jar of bath oil beads. Do they even make those any more? These are made from microbeads that came in a set of nail glitters.

A four inch section of GSL Border Sticks - Lace (coming soon) was painted white and fit the display motif perfectly.

 Thanks for stopping by!

GSL Products Used

Composition Display Stand (coming soon)

Border Sticks – Lace (coming soon)

Tiny Octagon Planter Set

Other Supplies Used

Tacky glue

Acrylic paint

Stamperia's Secrets of India collection

Soap base

Polymer clay

Poly clay cutters

Dollhouse platters

Resin ducks

Satin ribbon

Paper flowers

Small glass bottles

Microbeads