Hi,
I'm
Jane and this is the very 1st time that I have wrote on a blog. I was supposed
to start it in the New Year but I did sort of!!!!! I got as far as picking my
blog name!!!!! I've read loads about how to do a blog but I'm not computer
savvy!!! Being of that age where computers hadn’t been thought of being at
school lol.
I've
looked at many interesting blogs n I want mine to be interesting too to you.
Ps
I have loaded some photos of some of my makes and designs, if you click on My Profile I think it will take you
to them. Any comments are welcome.
So
here goes!!!!!
I
try and do a bit of crafting everyday but some days my mojo leaves me and has a
sleep for a day or two.
I also want this to be a journey into the crafting
world out there and try and do a journal along the way.
I'm
going to start with a photo of a wooden birdhouse a Xmas present for my friend.
I hope you like it and
would be kind enough to leave a comment and a link to your blog too.
How I
made the birdhouse;
Firstly
I painted the MDF with a diluted green acrylic paint to the main body of the
birdhouse and then did a brown paint wash on the roof.
Used
a mask and 3d paste where I mixed in mica powder to add colour and shimmer.
Stamped
images with flitter glue onto Kraft card (then cut them out) and stamped
flowers and butterflies straight onto the birdhouse and gilded them. Also
gilded 2 pen nibs and a plastic flower shaped button.
I
had made the paper flowers months ago.
I
left it at that until the next day.
I
find that if I do most of the background work and prepare or make the items to
decorate it and stand away from it for a while, usually overnight, so I know
where to put things. I usually find what I 1st thought would change slightly to
something better.
A
little help sometimes from friends help too but sometimes not!!!!! Lol
Lastly
I varnished all of the birdhouse but thought the roof looked a little dull so
varnished with glitter modge podge and added gilded paper clay butterflies.
Materials
Some
of the products I used I can't remember where I got them from so for the ones I
remember I will list below.
Birdhouse - CuddlyBuddly
Gilding
flakes, live, love, laugh stamp collection and Flitter glue - IndigoBlu
Kraft
card - Craftwork Cards
Flowers - MCS cd.
Modge
podge - QVC
Martha
Stewart paper clay and moulds - Create n Craft
Thankyou for taking the time to read my very 1st post. You are welcome to leave a comment.
Jane xxx
