Adventure Shadow Box by DT Monica

Hi everyone,

 

Monica, here  I am back with an inspiration post. I made a Mixed Media Shadowbox and I titled this "Adventure".

For this, I took an MDF square shadow box measuring 6*6". I sanded the box roughly and cleaned it. Next, I brushed it with Papericious Black Heavy Gesso. Once it dried, I  used a brick stencil with Prima sand texture paste to add some texture inside and outside of the box. I added embellishments and used a cardboard with twine around it and stuck it to the base. I again brushed everything with gesso, and once dry I started adding colours. I used Prima Art Alchemy Light Gold, Aged Bronze and some acrylic colours Burnt Sienna, Prussian Blue and White.

Materials: 

• Mdf shadow box

• Mdf gear embellishments

• Prima sand texture paste

• Prima art alchemy waxes

• Prima typo bulb

• Brick stencil

• Papericious heavy black gesso

• Acrylic paints- Burnt Sienna, Prussian Blue, White, Yellow

• Twine

All above-mentioned products are available at the Rainbow Craftykari store or you can pre-order them by sending an e-mail to rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com

Hope my project inspires you!

 

Happy crafting
Mounika Koneru

Ganesha Diwali Home Decor Piece Tutorial by GDT Vinita Jain

Hello Everyone!

Happy October!

This is a month of the festive season and Diwali is my most favorite festival, so there is no question about what I love to create with the Mixed Media projects!

You can surprise your guests and visitor this Diwali with your own handmade creation, no need to buy from the market now!

Today I want to show you my new MM project on coming festive occasion And to inspire for this month challenge "Lights & Celebrations".

And here it goes.............!!!!!!

I converted a piece of plywood into a magical wall decor art. I coated it with Plaster of Paris with the textured look.

Give a new life to Lord Ganesha by using any kind of pearl colors.

Happy with the results using Fevicryl Pearl colors, Terracotta and Old gold Inka Gold!

Now time to create a background scene for Lord Ganesha.

Using air dry clay and a mould I made some embellishments to decorate and let it dry them for a full day.

Now given a coat of gesso to all of them. Don't worry about some cracks because they are very delicate, it will hide with some embellishments:) Fixed metal holders to hang the decor piece.

Applied fevicol and sealant to paste them all.

Die cut lots of different flowers and leaves out of Iris paper, perfect for flower making using Iris sheet.

Soak the flowers and leaves in the water bowl for a minute and inked them using distress inks.

Shaped them using golf groove tool and embossing pad as shown in the pic, perfect for textures and details.

Now time to create the background. Misted the piece with different color splashes. Firstly I started with turquoise color mist bottle at all 4 corners with the height of 4 or 4.5" gap. Then misted with midnight blue, not on the middle part because I wanted the Ganesha to highlighted in sunbursts color effect! Then misted with dirty pink near the pillars. After that misted with chalk ultramarine and golden canary. You will easily achieve the same results as shown in the pic.

Now rubbed all the white part using old gold and turquoise Inka gold to highlight the detailing work as shown in the pic. And applied a little bit at the surface and chippies too!

Here are some close-ups for the detailing work:

Rub some Inka gold on the metal charm OM word. Paste it on the tea holder and embellished it with some gemstones.

Now embellished the whole piece with my own handmade flowers and few rhinestones, gems. See the details in close-ups clearly!

And covered the backside with the corrugated sheet attached a heart-shaped border at the bottom.

Here is the finished project and ready to hang on the wall. I am really happy that this time I will decorate my Pooja place with my own wall decor piece!!! 😊

Isn't it gorgeous at all!!!

Hope you all enjoyed this project and try to make for yours one too to decorate your home this Diwali! Love to see what you come up with our new challenge here.


Supply list:

Plywood piece

Iris paper

Dies: Flower 2 from Joy crafts; Sunflower from Cheery Lynn; Small tattered florals from Sizzix Thinlits;

Chipboard: Papericious- patterns

Distress inks: fossilized amber, carved pumpkin, fired brick, candied apple, mermaid lagoon, twisted citron, mowed lawn, lucky clover,

Air clay dry from Sculpt Dry

Moulds: Baroque 6- Vintage art mould from IOD Prima

Gesso: Camel

Inka Gold: Turquoise, old gold

13 arts Ayeeda Mist: pastel turquoise, chalk dirty pink, chalk ultramarine

Gold alcohol splash: midnight blue, golden canary

Moda color- terracotta

Fevicryl pearl colors: pearl lemon, sparkling pearl golden green

Groove golf tool

Aleen's tacky glue

Other materials: Fevicol, Silicon glue, Different sizes and shaped rhinestones, Golden heart bead lace, A candle stand, OM metal charm, Glass pollens, colorful pollens, some mulberry flowers

All the above-used materials you can pre-order at the Rainbowcraftykari store and some are already available there!


Happy crafting!

Vinita Jain

RCS Challenge #6 - Lights & Celebration

Hello Everyone,

 

A very happy October to you all! With the dawn of a new month we are back with another fun challenge for you all!

 

This time we have a theme with an additional twist.

(Image Credits Vecteezy and Partially Designed by Maninder Kaur)

The theme is CELEBRATION and the twist is LIGHTS. By Celebration we mean any form of celebration- Birthday, Anniversary, Festivals and anything you can think of! With the twist of Lights we want to see any form of light either the word, the interpretation, the subject or the object in your project. Let us know how you interpreted the challenge and also make sure to use the challenge banner in your post. 

One winner will receive a 12" x 12" Papericious Paper Pack as well as the winners badge to flaunt on the blog. Top three entries will get to flaunt a badge on their blogs.

Feel free to create any crafty project be it a card, a layout, altered piece, tag, home decor art, album and anything art/craft related. Last date to submit entries is 30th Oct'17

 

Please go through General Guidelines and Rules HERE. Any entry which doesn't follow the guidelines will be disqualified and will be removed from the participation entries.

 

Here's an inspiration by our Blog Coordinator Aditi for the challenge

 

For more information on how to make these click here

Link your entries below to participate in the challenge.

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Book Box Mixed Media Tutorial by DT Mounika Koneru

Hi Everyone,

Its Mounika here today at the blog, to share mixed media MDF Book box step by step tutorial.

Let's get into project

First I took primed MDF bookstyle box or you can prime the box using white light gesso. Once gesso is dry using sand paper lightly sand the box and cleaning nicely with dry cloth.

Took stencil secure it on box using tape ,stenciled it using texture paste in side of box. Let it dry completely.

On top of box I applied thick layer of texture paste and stamp randomly using wooden blocks and to create texture randomly dab on using my finger. Left the box overnight to dry completely.

Once texture paste completely dry applied flesh tint acrylic colour allover the box.

Later mixed turquoise blue with Decoart antiquing medium applied all over box and while it is wet use a cloth or wet tissue rub over to remove excess colour.

Repeated above step with burnt sienna and antiquing medium.

Once everything is dry, I started layering Used corrugated sheet, chipboard,some Poppy flowers.

Applied papericous black gesso all over embellishments.

Glued all embellishments added some beads and prima marketing melange art pebbles and cover them with gesso.

 

Finally used light blue acrylic colour on corrugated sheet randomly and on flowers. Use prima art alchemy waxes to highlight the embellishments. I worked with waxes until I'm happy with final result.

Some close ups of box...

Materials used

• Mdf box style box

• Stencil

• Sandpaper

• camille whiteGesso

• Papericous black gesso

• Acrylic colours ( light blue, turquoise blue,flesh tint,burnt sienna)

• Corrugated sheet

• Dustyattic elegant chain chipboard

• Prima marketing melange art pebbles

• Prima art alchemy waxs (white gold, bronze age, amethyst magic)

• Mullberry flowers

• Metal flowers

• Microbeads

• Cheesecloth

• Pallette knife

• Hot glue gun

• Ranger gel medium

Above mentioned products are available at rainbowcraftykari or you can pre-order
By sending mail at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com
Hope you like my tutorial.

Regards
Mounika