Home Decor by Kathi and Cards by Melissa for August Cross Promotional

Hi Friends!  Today we have two designers sharing their amazing creations.  First up with Kathi with home decor projects to share.

Hello Fellow Crafters, and thanks for joining me.  Today I am sharing two of Gina's Designs, the Victorian Wall Shelf & the Deco Front Shadowbox, both decorated in a shabby chic style. I am sharing both of these items with you today since I will be displaying them on the same wall of my craft room and I designed them to coordinate.

 Victorian Wall Shelf

Deco Front Shadowbox

My plans are to add my children s photo to the wall shelf, & our wedding photo to the frame in the shadow box.

Video of Shabby Chic projects

Products Used:

Gina's Designs Lasercuts:

Deco Front Shadowbox

Victorian Wall Shelf. 

Michaels Mini Photo Frame 

WOC flowers

Lace from craftsupplies1 & from my stash

Flat back beads 

Tim Holtz paper 

White Gesso 

Ceramic figurine Bride. 

Thank you so much for stopping in today and sharing a few moments of your time.

Have a great day & have fun crafting.


Next up today is Melissa sharing some amazing cards created as part of our August Cross Promotional with Kitty's Scrap Post digital printable papers.

Hi everyone! Melissa here with two cards to share.

It was wonderful working with these papers.  The details, images, and colors are crisp, and beautiful.  Vintage and romance, a perfect combination!  I can always find just the chipboard I need to complement a theme at Gina's Designs.

The skeleton clock on the left I first painted with gesso, and then liquid pearls.  I put on a  little gold leaf,  and then silver ink.   On the right hand card I painted all three with gesso. On the corset I added detail with pencil, glossy accents, liquid pearls,silver stickles, and silver ink.  I laced it with black thread.

 The white heart at the bottom right has perfect pearls and glossy accents on it.  It's wrapped with metal thread I'm pretty sure is from the 1920's. It could be part of a rhinestone and metal cap.  My Mom found  a strand of rhinestones from it at a barn sale in Pennsylvania, and I've used all the rhinestones on other projects.

I also put some perfect pearls on the gears.

The red heart charm is red watercolors over red metallic pen.  I put a dried flower from my yard on a layer of Dimensional Magic, then another layer of the glue on top. I added definition with a black sharpie. 

Thanks for looking!

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Hanging Clock Set

Miniatures Shape Set - Ladies Choice

Hearts Background

Steampunk Lady

Wooden Charm - Heart (coming soon, other shapes already available)

Papers by Kitty's Scrap Post - Heart Break collection, and "Love struck" Bottle Cap Collage Sheet

Other products used:

Tim Holtz metal and stickers

Liquid Pearls

Swarovski crystals

Glossy accents

Dimensional Magic by Mod Podge

Swarovski flat back crystals

Altered Canvas by Veronica and Trinket Box by Donna

We have two designers on the blog today with some truly inspiring projects to share.  First up is Veronica.


Hi Everyone! Veronica here to share an Altered Canvas that I made for a friend of mine. I'm calling it "She Stood in the Storm", as she just recently beat breast cancer.  I wanted to show her my support through a mixed media canvas.

Gina's Designs  has so many wonderful choices in laser cuts, that I was easily inspired!

I love having all my medias at reach any time I work on a project.
  I just go at the canvas with how I'm feeling at that moment, and with so many chipboard shapes to choose from, I find myself immersed into a Mixed Media Heaven!

Thank you so much for stopping by,
and have a Blessed Day!


Products used:
Gina's Designs
Dress Forms 1 Miniature Shape Set
Doily Set Intricates
Steampunk Lady
Vintage Ladies Silhouettes Set
Art Deco Borders & Corners


Next up is Donna to share one of our trinket boxes.  These boxes are actually quite large at 7x7x3.

Hi scrappy friends, it's Donna again with a trinket box from Gina's Designs. This is a great item to make as a gift or just to keep all your special trinkets and scrapbook goodies in. It is a great size, sturdy and very easy to assemble. The dark color hardwood is a beautiful, smooth, semi gloss brown color. I almost hated to cover it up with paper!

 

The first thing I did, before I assembled the trinket box, was to take each piece and trace an outline on the paper I chose to cover the box. You have control of which parts of the paper you will use for each section.  It was very easy to cut out the shapes and glue them to the hardwood pieces. I did not paint the sections of the box that would not be covered with paper. As I previously mentioned, the hardwood is a very beautiful color. Then being very careful to attach the paper to the correct side of the hardwood sections, I glued the paper in place.  If needed, take a small file of some type and gently sand/file down the areas your paper may not fit exactly over the shape of the base and lid of the box. I had a lucky day, mine fit perfectly!

And then the real fun begins when it's time to add the embellishments: a few fussy cut flowers, paper flowers, gold lace, cameos, pearl sprays, pearls, crystals, and I added a couple of birds on branches from Gina's Birdwatching Shape Set.  I covered the chipboard shapes, with gesso, let them dry, and then painted the two birds with antiqued bronze crackle paint. The branches were painted with artichoke shimmer texture paint. I wanted to keep the chipboard simple because there are a lot of embellishments on the box. And I added a brass handle to the lid. There is a pre-drilled hole in the lid if you need it. There are so many beautiful knobs and handles out there to choose from for this fabulous box!

It was very hard to capture, in photos, how beautiful the muted colors of the paper and flowers work together, and how pretty the brass stamped cameos and handle are. The flowers and tips of some of the leaves are misted with gold shimmer mist. They really have a beautiful sheen in person. I also added paper to the inside of the box. 

Gina's Designs products

Trinket Box

Birdwatching Shape Set

Other products

Fabscraps Heritage paper

Gold sparkle lace from Tresors de Luxe

Brass stamped cameos and frame from Etsy

Gold pearl sprays

Gold shimmer mist

Misc jewelry pearls and crystals

Flowers and leaves from Prima

Misc flowers from stash

Antiqued bronze crackle paint

Shimmer texture paint-artichoke

Crafters Pick - glue

Thank you for stopping by Gina's today! I hope I have inspired you to make something beautiful!

Steampunk Shrine by Kathi

Hello everyone!  Thanks for stopping by, it's Kathi here to share with you my House Shrine Box, 

Supplies Used:

Gina's Designs Lasercuts:

House Shrine Box, 

Steampunk Lady, 

Steampunk Fan, 

Gears Shape Set

Steampunk Frame, 

Faux typewriter keys, 

Dressforn & Wings ShapeSet, 

Small Skeleton Clock/hands, 

Gothic Chandelier, 

Steampunk Hearts

Other Supplies used:

Metal Butterfly from Craftsupplies1

Metal Key,

Metal  Gears and washers.

Altered Shadowbox Frame in a Steampunk Theme by Nancy

Hi Everyone, Nancy here!  Today I'm sharing an altered shadowbox frame that began as a thrift store find.  The frame was solid wood and painted black,  and there was glass inside.  I removed the glass and the backing and the fun began!

 I left the black paint alone and painted a thin coat of metallic brass over it.  Since the outside of the frame measured 12 x 12, I thought it would be fun to lay one of our texture sheets (in this case the gears style) over the entire frame.  I simply cut out the center, used matte Mod Podge to adhere the texture sheet to the frame, and then painted it with white gesso.  The rest was just spraying some various colors of ink sprays until I got the look I wanted.  

I painted the butterfly of gears with Folk Art acrylics and added some dimensional pearls.  The stacked hot air balloon was painted lightly with gesso, stamped with script and embossed.  The waterworks frame was embossed in copper.  The steampunk lady was embossed with script, edges inked with Prima chalk inks, and the gears with various metal colored embossing powders.  The rolled roses were created with a die and papers from my scraps.  The background paper is by Mambi, and I added some sprays, yellow gelatos, and a little texture paste and stenciling.  Thanks for looking!

Texture Sheet Gears

Gears Border and Corners Shape Set

Hot Air Balloon Stack Up

Butterfly of Gears

Waterworks Shapes Set

Steampunk Lady

Key Wall Art Balloon mounted on an altered frame by Nancy

Hi everyone, Nancy here!  Today I'm sharing my version of the Wall Art Key.  I chose the Hot Air Balloon style for my project.  I decided to mount my key on the edge of a 12 x 12 unfinished wooden photo frame that I purchased at Michael's.  I had so much fun decorating this.  I did a lot of stenciling, stamping and doodling all over the frame,  then I backed the key with paper before mounting it to the side.  I couldn't decide on the right photo to put inside the frame so I added our steampunk lady chipboard shape in the area where the photo goes.  It was supposed to be temporary, but now I like it so much that I might leave it just as is..

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Key Wall Art Balloon

Steampunk Borders

Cardstock Doily Set Steampunk

Sreampunk Lady

Girly Grunge Steampunk Key

 

Hi Everyone, Kim here to share with you my altered Key. These Wall Art Keys are new in Gina's store and I just adore them! They come in a few different styles, and today I have chosen to alter the Gear Heart one. I have done it up in a Girly Grunge style.

 

 

Here you can see the lovely Steampunk Lady who I have embossed with a few different colors and added a lovely flower to her "hair". I used the Prima Fairy Belle paper for the inside of the heart, but you could easily have put a photo inside as well, it would be great for that! These keys have an overlay which goes on top of them and in this section you can see the gears on the heart which I have also embossed and added metal embellishments and flowers to give a bit of a feminine touch.

 



Here you can see a close up of the center of the key, I love that these Wall Art Keys have an overlay so you can alter them in so many different ways. They also come in several different shapes too, so please check out Gina's Store for more info on them!



 

In this section, I have used an Exclusive Design by Kerry Fellowes, her Butterfly of Gears, I really love this piece, and Kerry will be having more designs coming soon! I continued the Fairy Belle paper down the bottom part of the key and added some wooden letters, which I painted black to spell out the word "Fly". A chain, Prima zipper sentiment, and metal wing charm finish off the look of the butterfly.

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Gina's Designs Items used:

Wall Art Heart Key

Steampunk Lady Head

Butterfly of Gears, A Kerry Fellowes Design Exclusive to Gina's Designs

Other Items used
Prima Fairy Belle Paper, and zipper sentiment
Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
Metal Wing Charm from Craftsupplies1
Metal key hole, gears, clock piece from Butterbeescraps
Lindy's Stamp Gang Midnight Bronze Embossing Powder
Stampendous Shabby White Embossing Powder
Wood Letters and Chain from my Stash
 



An Altered Spool in a Steampunk theme by Kathi

Hi there, it's Kathi here sharing another of our cross promotional projects with CraftSupplies1.  I created my spool using many of the available steampunk shapes from Gina's store.  I covered the spool with Graphic45 Steampunk design paper.  I really love this paper, and I stayed with the color scheme of black, teal, and ivory.  For the base of the clock, I re purposed the face of a large broken clock, and also used the hands of the clock on the side of the spool.

Products used:

Gina’s Designs:

Large Spool

Steampunk Hearts

Steampunk Lightbulb Set

Hot Air Balloons Net Style

Steampunk Lady

Steampunk Gentleman

Steampunk Fan

Parisian Shape Set

Steampunk Borders

Gears Shape Set

Dressform & Wings Shape Set (Wings only custom sized)

Steampunk Shape Set

Card Stock Doilies Set Steampunk

Crafts Supplies 1:

Crafts Supplies 1- black crochet lace

Crafts Supplies 1 – multi colored flat bling trim