Then adhered to the Round Uprights.

Onto white cardstock, first misting with water before applying the Pearl Inks, then misting again with water, allow to air dry.

Once dry, stamping the dragonfly collage.

The dragonfly will then be cut from the stamped collage but ensuring to save the text and honeycomb elements. 

Thank you for visiting.

Wishes

Lynne

 This week I'm using some Artistic Outpost stamps. Love these sets - they've got a bit of everything - images, backgrounds, text.

Hello!

I have a rather tongue in cheek steampunk creation to share this week as I was removing all the craftyboard pieces from one of the steampunk style sheets and some of the leftover bits that came out made me think of bats! Can you see what I mean!

Step by Step:

A set of the papers by Amanda Southern has a really grungy style perfect for steampunk type creations so I first covered the outer frame of the shrine with one of these. What I did was to put the glue on the frame itself and then press it firmly down on the reverse of the paper. I then trimmed the outer edges and used a craft knife to cut out the centre (for use on another project!).

I next drew round the back panel on a piece of purple and yellow paper and then assembled the back box and painted the inside sections bright purple. I stamped a tree silhouette with black ink on the yellow and purple paper panel and heat embossed it with clear powder. I then glued it in place in the back of the box.

I stamped my chosen steampunk darling (she's my favourite as I just love those fabulous wings) together with the cute bat and some of the steampunk accessories on white smooth card with black ink and heat embossed them all with clear powder. I coloured all the images with Zig markers and then cut them all out.

I painted some of the bat like waste pieces with black gesso and glued them in the back of the box to form a flight of bats. I then glued the front piece to the back box. I painted an arched window bright purple and glued this at the top. I then glued on all my stamped embellishments. In the case of the little bat I made him stand out from the background by gluing him on a stack of layered waste pieces.

Supplies:

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Steampunk Darlings Set 1
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Steampunk Accessories Set 1
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - The Language of Trees Set 2
That's Crafty! A4 Paper Pack - Perfect Backgrounds Set 2 by Amanda Southern
That's Crafty! Craftyboard Sheet - Arched Windows
That's Crafty! Craftyboard Sheet - Steampunk Flowers and Roses (the waste for the bats!)
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paint - Violet
That's Crafty! Black Gesso
That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens
Black Ink
Clear Embossing Powder 

Hi Everyone 

Welcome to my weekly DT post . 

Today I am sharing a piece of home decor that I have created using That's Crafty! Surfaces and 13 Arts papers. 

The surfaces are a 4x6 MDF chunkie and a couple of MDF hearts of differing sizes and the papers are from the 6x6  His and Hers Remastered paper collection pad. 

There really is nothing complicated about the creativity so its a project suitable for beginners through to the more seasonal crafters/ creators amongst us.

Here's the base ( I forgot to take a pic of the top, sorry) ...

....and the back 

Products I used:

That's Crafty! 4x6 MDF Chunkies
That's Crafty! MDF Hearts #3
That's Crafty! White/ Greyboard hearts #5
13Arts His and Hers Remastered Paper pad (6x6)
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Adhesive

Black Acrylic Paint
PaperArtsy French Roast Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint. (Other brown paints could be used. See some that That's Crafty! carry here 
Tim Holtz Ideology Arrow
Gem Bead
Paper Trimmer
Scissors
Paint Brush

In a world were we never know what is round the corner creating memories and sharing our love for one another is such an important element of our very being. My piece this week celebrates this sentiment.

To create my piece I chose a piece of paper from the Summer Rhapsody 12 x 12 paper collection by 13 Arts and cut it to fit the square That's Crafty Upright. I adhered this in place on the back panel and added a strip of the same paper to the base carefully cutting out the word memories from the same paper piece to use as my title.

The reverse side of the same paper piece was then cut 1 cm smaller than the base before distressing the edges using a Tim Holtz Distress Tool. Detail was added to the paper by stamping the text stamp from AALL and Create Just Grow Stamp Set using Morning Mist Versafine ink and heat setting with Wow Clear Embossing Powder. A piece of lace was wrapped around the paper which was then adhered in place using foam tape.

A panel was cut from the 12 x 12 paper pad and a smaller one from the 6 x 6 pad the smaller panel was then adhered with That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Glue directly on to the paper piece, tucking it under the lace as I did so. The larger panel was then adhered using more foam tape.

The floral images from the Just Grow stamp set were stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink on to pink paper from the 6 x 6 paper pad and then heat set with embossing powder. The images were fussy cut out and the leaves coloured using Inktense pencils 

Extra flowers were then cut from papers from both the 6 x6 and 12 x 12 paper collections and layered in place until I was happy with the arrangement. The word love was cut out from the 6 x 6 panel paper.

I cast the lock piece from Luxembourg Hardware mould using Prima Modelling Material. Once the piece had set it was coloured using Charcoal Black Wax by Finnabair and then the detail enhanced with White Gold Vintage Metallique Wax. 

Having collected all of my embellishment pieces these were then adhered into place using a mixture of Multi Surface Glue and Prima Heavy Body Gel. Finally I adhered my Upright into the base.