Hello Crafty folks,
How are you all? What’s happening? Are you done with your planning for this summer vacation? Come summer and everyone is bitten by the wanderlust bug. As the travel is on cards, here I am, back again at Rainbow Craftykari blog with my DT Inspirational post dedicated to Travel.
Do you have any idea as to who travels the most? It's the “Postal Stamps”. Nowadays they
aren't in vogue courtesy the New Fast Technology ... Nostalgia associated with Postal
Stamps compelled me to reuse them. There is one more element closely associated
with travel I feel and it is “Time”. The trio of Travel, Postal Stamp and Time looked so disjointed. But on a closer look together they inspired me to create a Masculine Watch Box with decoupage.
aren't in vogue courtesy the New Fast Technology ... Nostalgia associated with Postal
Stamps compelled me to reuse them. There is one more element closely associated
with travel I feel and it is “Time”. The trio of Travel, Postal Stamp and Time looked so disjointed. But on a closer look together they inspired me to create a Masculine Watch Box with decoupage.
Let’s hop on to the project:
I took a raw MDF Watch Box with 5 partitions inside and gave it a coat of white
gesso to prime the entire box. Next, I painted it with Chalk paint and covered
all sides of the box. Then I distressed all my postal stamps with distress
ink for a vintage look.
After that, I started applying Postal Stamps on the top of the box with Mod Podge.
This was a random arrangement. I purposely did not cover the entire portion with stamps. I left some place on one side to add more zing to it.
This was a random arrangement. I purposely did not cover the entire portion with stamps. I left some place on one side to add more zing to it.
On the left side of the top, I stamped some post and travel related stamps with Archival Black ink. With this addition, the lid of the box was ready.
Then I covered the three sides of boxes with decoupage paper and decoupage glue. I
chose a world map paper to match the travel theme. I distressed all the edges of the box with Vintage Photo distress ink and the box was ready!
chose a world map paper to match the travel theme. I distressed all the edges of the box with Vintage Photo distress ink and the box was ready!
Last and most important, I covered all the sides of the box lid with masking tape
and applied a fine layer of resin. When resin dried completely I removed the
masking tape and smoothened the edges with sand paper.
and applied a fine layer of resin. When resin dried completely I removed the
masking tape and smoothened the edges with sand paper.
Postal stamps, time, travel and watch box….an adorable quartet!
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Happy Crafting
Hugs,
very creative and good idea to use stamps.
ReplyDeleteVidhi, this is a most innovative and brilliant work. Loved it !! ~ Aditi & Maninder
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty box!
ReplyDeleteI like all those stamps :)