WOYWW - 8.11.17

Happy Wednesday !


My second time posting for WOYWW and I am really enjoying myself, if you want to take part pop over to this pace. Its great fun seeing each others desks and crafty mess haha.

This is my desk, a mess I know hehe!

Okay, so working left to right on the first picture. Lots of ribbon on the left and a little jar of metal embellishments, a tub of bows, stick pins, mdf butterflies, a round box covered with vintage style tissue paper, small flowers and gems. Lastly on the right is adhesive glitter paper.

This is a closer view, with all the goodies on my desk I decorated the box lid.

So now I start being crafty if you would like to see the step by step, please read on.

So to begin, I ripped some of the glitter adhesive paper into strips and stuck them randomly on the box. Next I cut some pieces of different ribbon and folded them in half. I then stuck the cut ends to the lid. I did this to add dimension to my arrangement. Then I chose the small metal scissors charm and threaded some white ribbon through the hole. I then stuck the ends of the ribbon to the box. I love adding different pieces from my stash as it adds lots of interest to any crafty project. A couple of cream stick pins finished off this base layer for the lid.

I stamped some floral images and a butterfly. Unfortunately I do not know the company that made these stamps. I used versafine black onyx ink and heat embossed these stamps with clear WOW embossing powder. I love this embossing powder as the result is lovely and smooth in my opinion.

I then fussy cut these stamped images ready to adhere to the lid.

Now I grabbed some white card from my offcuts and used four distress oxide inks in this next step.

I pressed the ink pads directly to the dry cardstock in different areas, I repeated this with each colour.

Then I sprayed both pages with water until the ink runs. I love the texture left from using the ink pad directly.

I then dried them with a heat gun and repeated the process a few times, Dried again when I was happy with the result.

For the next step, I used some of my autumn leaves dies by Sara Davies. These dies are beautiful, I would definitely recommend them.

The different areas of colour on the oxide pages really add a lot to these little paper embellishments.

I then used Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic glue to stick the leaves and flowers I die cut to the lid. I arranged them on top of the ribbon and some peeking out underneath. I do the same with the heat embossed images.



Then add some gems, sparkle is a must!

Here is the finished piece, I hope you enjoyed this project. Be sure to hop over to Julia on the WOYWW page, its a lovely friendly group.

Thank you for spending some of your day with me.
Crafty hugs and see you tomorrow!

Ellie x