An Altered Box and Charm by Melissa

Hi everyone! Melissa here with an altered box using an interesting technique and Gina's Designs Lasercuts.  I first noticed this amazing technique using fusible film (iridescent packaging wrap) on Pinterest, and I thought it would be fun to try it.

 I began by coating the box with gesso.  I then hand painted three peacock feather shapes on the top of the box  using three Viva Decor Metallic Colors. On the sides and bottom I just painted randomly in the same color paints. 

I then followed a tutorial using fusible film.  After I did all the steps in the tutorial,  except for soaking the whole top in alcohol, I put small amounts of paint in different colors on top. I dry brushed a lot of the ridges with turquoise paint, and Marvy Uchida gold ink. I put the gold ink around the top edges.  The very deep blue purple color on top I made by mixing turquoise and purple together.

 The ridges were made by the layers of the crumpled film melting together.  I wanted the paint underneath the film to show more on the rest of the box.  To do this I put on a layer of film that was only wrinkled slightly on the sides and the bottom.  I didn't put any paint on those parts.

On the chipboard,  I first painted with gesso, then embossed in gold.  I put Mod Podge Dimensional Magic on top, then a little gold leaf, and then I covered it all with gold opaque paint marker. 

The wooden charm I first painted with gesso, then turquoise Viva Decor paint.  I put the key on, then covered the paint with Dimensional Magic. Thanks for looking!

Gina's Designs products used:

Flourishes 2

Wooden Charm - Circle Small

Other:

Wood Box from Hobby Lobby

Iridescent packaging wrap

Acrylic Medium

Viva Decor Precious Metal Paints in bronze, turquoise,and purple

Jaquard Lumieres

Ranger alcohol inks

Embossing Powder

Mica powder

Marvy Uchida Deco Color Liquid Opaque Marker in gold and silver

Tim Holtz metal feet, pen nib, and Chit Chat sticker

Small pewter bird and key from Vintaj

bicones and flat back crystals from Swarovski

Wedding Anniversary and Father's Day Cards by Melissa

Hi everyone!  Melissa here with two cards using Gina's Designs Lasercuts. 

I painted the chipboard on the pink card with gesso, followed by a combination of watercolors and twinkling H20s.  I then stamped with chalk ink using a leaf stamp.  I topped it with Dimensional Glaze.

I painted the gear chipboard on the brown card with gold and silver lumieres on top of dried gesso.  To add more definition,  I took a very small brush and painted the edges with black acrylic paint . I topped everything with  perfect pearls, and then a thick layer of crackle.  To make the cracks show I used brown chalk.

On the wooden charm I used gesso, then painted with gold deco pen. Underneath the chipboard is canvas. I painted it with gold lumieres. While it was wet I sprinkled on some gold embossing powder and heated everything. I put on some verdigris embossing powder, heated it , then dry brushed the powder with some more gold paint. I used some halo pink-gold lumieres around the edges.  I poured  some crackle on in a few areas,and put black chalk on when dry.

Thanks for looking!

Chipboard used:

Bird in Ivy

Steampunk Fan

Wooden Charm-Circle Small

Other products used:

Printery paper by Prima

Watercolor paper

Winton and Lewis watercolors

Twinkling H20s

Tim Holtz found relatives cards, Chitchat words,metal pieces

Jaquard Lumieres

Vintaj pewter charms

Perfect Pearls

Ranger Crackle Accents

Dimensional Glaze

Petaloo flowers

Tsuineko chalk ink

Marvy Uchida  DecoColor liquid gold paint marker 

Jolee's Gems

Mini Album and Wooden Charm by Shanna

Hi everyone!  Shanna here to share a quick way that I altered one of our Wooden Charm Circles for a mini album I recently made. 

First I cut out the image that I wanted to show inside my charm.

I used glossy accents to adhere it.

Then I filled the inside with more glossy accents.

After the glossy accents dried I used a nail file to scuff off the paper that was still showing. Once that was done I covered the outside with some Viva Decor Inka Gold rub.

Here is the front cover of the mini album. For more photos come stop by my blog by clicking here.

Items Used:

Typewriter Shape Set

Wooden Charm - Circle Large

Wooden Decorative Keys