A Themed Shadowbox by Donna and a Spooky Altered Book Box by Deann

Hello Friends!  Today we have two amazing projects to share, first up is Donna with another of our October cross promotional projects.

Welcome scrappy friends! Today I am sharing a 7 x 7 Shadow Box from Gina's Designs along with a gorgeous brown fabric rose spray from Craftsupplies1.

 

I just love the pearl sprays!

I used two sizes of the new Layered Flourishes. These are so cool! I painted the top and bottom pieces with white gesso. For the top piece of the small flourish, I used a walnut stain distress paint dabber, then lightly rubbed on Inka Gold when the paint was dry.

 

I used weathered wood crackle paint on the top piece of the large flourish. The large flourish is straight like the smaller version, but I cut it in half to make a "corner" I used weathered wood crackle paint on the top piece of the large flourish. The large flourish is straight like the smaller version, but I cut it in half to make a "corner" flourish.

All of the dress forms were covered with white gesso and then painted with distress crackle paint.

This was a really fun project! I hope you will take a look at the cute Themed Shadow Boxes and the NEW Layered Flourishes! 

Thank you so much for taking time today to stop by Gina's!!!!

 Gina's Designs 

Layered Border - Victoria Large (coming soon)

Layered Border - Victoria Small (coming soon)

7 x 7 Themed Shadowbox

Dress Forms 2 Miniature Shape Set

Dress Forms 2 Shape Set

Craftsupplies1

Brown fabric rose spray with pearls

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Craftsupplies1
Zibbet: http://www.zibbet.com/Craftsupplies1  

Other Products

Prima - Madeline paper

Petaloo - Small flowers

White gesso

Crackle  


Next up is Deann with a Halloween project she has created with one of our book boxes.  She has used the box in a fun and unique way!

Good morning, Deann Here with a Spooky Book Of Spells!

I used a Book Box- Small to make my Spell Book. On the cover I added one of the Spiderweb Shape Sets and a spider ring.  I wrote the word spells in hot glue. To try this yourself, let the hot glue dry, then cover with masking tape. Use a stylus or something with a round tip to emboss around all of the raised areas. Add a coat of Gesso, when dry add Dark Brown or Black craft paint. I rubbed Gold paint over the raised parts.

The inside of the box has been painted Black. I made a dimensional grave yard scene inside 

 I used a Raven from the Spooky Shape Set.

 This would look so cool sitting open on a book shelf!

I used the small box but there are three sizes to play with :)

(((HUGS)))

Deann

Products used:

Book Box Small

Floral Cards by Shanna and Artist Trading Blocks by Donna

Hello Everyone!  Today we have two Designers on the blog.  First up is Shanna with some gorgeous cards.

Hello and how do you do.  Shanna here with another set of fun cards to share with you today.

I loved using this paper collection with these flowers. It helped make the flowers just pop to me.

I gave my chipboard just a single coat of gesso and made them the main event of my cards.

Items Used:

Gina's Designs Lasercuts

Queen Anne's Lace 

Hypercium Beries

Next up today is Donna sharing her take on the Artist Trading Blocks that each team member is creating this month.  We've seen several so far and each artist's version has been uniquely different and equally awesome!

Hi, it's Donna here today to share my Artist Trading Blocks from Gina's Designs!  I chose to decorate my blocks with a Paris theme.  Ooh La La!  They are so easy and so much fun to put together and decorate! The options are endless! I also used Gina's miniature dress forms on all four sides of the three boxes. It's really great that you can special request Gina's chipboard shapes in many different sizes! The tiny dress forms I used on the two smaller boxes are a special requested size, and are so darn cute!!!!!!!!

After I glued the boxes together, I painted the corners black with chalk ink so the color of the box would not show. I could have also used black gesso or paint.  I chose the paper I wanted to use for each box and each side, including layers, cut them, and glued them to the box. I then got out "the works" and just started having a blast! Pearls, feathers, bling, flowers, lace, glass knobs, shabby ribbon, netting, stickers, and wooden feet!

Then it was time to decorate the dress forms! I painted all the dress forms with gesso, with the exception of the black ones. I used black chalk ink directly on the chipboard and that worked fine. I would have probably used black gesso if I had it.  I find it best to cover my chipboard shapes with gesso as a protective coat before painting or embossing.  I used vintage pink chalk ink, over the gesso, on the darker pink dress forms. Two of the little white dress forms are covered with white opal liquid pearls, and the other set with white chalk ink and spun sugar distress stickles. I was having so much fun with the darling dress forms, I also made two free standing dress forms! I added a piece of cardboard to the back so they could stand up!

Thank you so very much for stopping by today! 

 Gina's Designs products

Artist Trading Blocks

Miniature Dressforms 1

Miniature Dressforms 2

Other products 

Authentique Classique: Pretty paper and sticker sheet

Glass knobs - Hobby Lobby

Feathers

Flowers

String pears, Black and White

Wooden feet - Hobby Lobby

Lace - misc from stash

Chalk ink - Black, vintage pink, white

White opal liquid pearls

Spun sugar distressed stickles

Crafter's Pick glue

Vintage Sewing Themed Altered Cigar Box by Nancy

Hi everyone, it's Nancy here!  Today I am sharing an altered cigar box using papers from digital files that I have printed myself.  This coming August,  the Gina's Designs team will be participating in a cross promotional using digital designs by Kitty's Scrap Post.  We were excited to find out that in addition to each of us picking our choice of a digital  kit to work with for our August projects, all of us received the French Seamstress Kit as an extra bonus.   When I saw this gorgeous French Seamstress kit,  I just knew I had to combine the papers with Gina's sewing themed chipboard shapes.  A match made in Crafty Heaven!

 I'd been wanting a box to store my vintage Czech glass button collection and other sewing related collectibles I have accumulated, so I dug out this cigar box from my stash, and went to work.  I'm so happy with the way it turned out.  The box measures 7" x 7.5" x 4" deep.

I began by covering the box both inside and out, even the bottom got papered.  The best thing about digital papers is that you can print them as many times as you want to.  Just look how pretty the images are in this collection!

After the box was papered, everything got two coats of matte Mod Podge so the box can be wiped clean with a wet cloth.  Several techniques (as described below each photo) were used to decorate the chipboard shapes.

The dressform on the top of the box was embossed with Stampendous Shabby Pink Embossing Powder.  Closeup view of the top below:

Aren't the papers gorgeous!  In addition to the dressform, I simply added a few Recollections flowers and fabric leaves.

On the front of the box I added more chipboard shapes and a few buttons to blend in with the button print on the paper.  Here the chippies were painted with Folk art acrylics.  Metal bookplate by Recollections and metal feet by Tim Holtz were painted with gesso and green acrylic paint.

On this side of the box I added the button border from Gina's Designs, and embossed it with Stampendous Shabby White, Pink, and Blue alternately.

On this side, I added a skeleton clock and clock hands embossed with Stampendous Shabby White embossing powder.  The chipboard clock mimics the clock and clock hands design on the paper.

On this side, I added scissors and another dressform.  The dressform is embossed with Shabby Blue, and the scissors with Shabby Marine (handles) and with a brass color embossing powder for the blades.

Here's a view of the inside! I'm all ready to add my collection of buttons and things!

Closeup of the inside lid.  On these shapes,  I have painted first with Gesso, stamped with a script stamp and then inked with pale pink and pale blue inks from Recollections new Vintage Romance collection of products.

Inside of the box at the bottom is another gorgeous design from the kit.  It was so hard to decide which paper to use on the top!

I hope you like my project, and be sure to visit us at Gina's Designs, and also check out all the gorgeous digital paper collections at Kitty's Scrap Post.

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Vintage Seamstress Shape Set

Button Border

Dressforms 1 Shape Set

Dressforms 2 Miniature Shape set

Skeleton Clocks

Clock Hands Shape Set

Other:

Digital Design Papers by Kitty's Scrap Post

French Seamstress Kit