How to Alter a Charming Washi Tape Holder

Hello crafty friends,

Learn how to use your Sin City Art Stamps to decorate a bin to add a personal touch to your craft room!

You will need

Sin City Stamps Dandelion Wishes

A MDF or other storage container

Red acrylic paint

Clear varnish

Crackle glaze

1) Cover all the bin with Gesso

2) Paint with red paint

3) Using black pigment ink, Stamp a few butterflies into the corners and then stamp out a dandelion border.

4) On the outer panels, stamp out rows of butterflies,

5) On the bottom inside panel, Stamp out a mixture of dandelions and butterflies.

 6) Coat outer panels with a clear varnish
7) Coat inside area with a crackle glaze or clear varnish
8) Glue the pieces together.

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Sin City Stamps Occult In a Box: A Spooky Altered Matchbox

Hi all

I have a spooky "miniature" craft to share using Sin City Stamps!

Enjoy!

Supplies:

1. Skeletons Halloween art stamp set  
2. Halloween Bingo Stamp Set 
3. Wildflower stamp set  
4. Large matchbox
5. Gesso
6. White card
7. Black ink
8. Orange chalk paint
9. Crackle paint
10. Orange paint
11. Purple paint
12. Walnut stain or dark to light brown inks.
13. Assorted Halloween charms and beads.

Prime your matchbox with gesso before painting with orange chalk paint.

Add crackle paint and then paint over with orange paint.

Stamp the center and sides of the box with the filigree stamp from the Skeletons Halloween Set.

Stamp out the bottles and wildflowers onto white card. 

Color bottles with walnut stain or a cold tea bag. 

Trim the tentacles off the wildflowers and glue behind the bottles.

Paint inside orange and the drawer in purple. Glue a pumpkin bead on the front.

Fill drawer with spooky things.

The Ouija board is from a dolls house miniature. 

The tarot cards can be printed off here and the rest of the bits are made from beads.

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A Christmas Clock with Walnut Hollow

Hello, and welcome to my first Sin City Stamps post for December.  This month, we are proud to have Walnut Hollow as our sponsor.

I began my project with their rustic wood ledge.  It is quite rough, but instead of sanding it, I covered it with a good, thick coat of white gesso.  I wanted to maintain the texture without getting splinters.

Next, I covered the front and sides of the box with the green gold texture paint.  This paint is very thick and needed to be applied with a palette knife.  After spreading a medium thick coat, I dabbed the paint with the side of my knife to obtain this cool texture.

Mist entire box with Turquoise Shimmer Mist, then Primary Yellow, dabbing some of the excess mist as you go.  Let dry.

Apply Patina Gilder's Paste to high spots with your best tool, your finger.

Mist entire box again with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mist.  Let dry.  Can you see the pretty gold flecks?

Apply German Silver Gilder's Paste to the high spots, leaving some of the Patina showing.  Now I am really loving it.

Drill  a hole in the center of the wooden snowflake large enough for the clock hand shaft to go through easily.  I also stamped snowflakes from Penguins on Ice set with Versamark ink and silver embossing powder.

Paint the wooden snowflake with the orange yellow metal color paint.  Let dry.  Use a baby wipe or damp paper towel and gently remove the orange yellow paint from on top of the embossed snowflakes to reveal the silver embossing.

Adhere two Clock Die Cuts together for extra thickness.

Heat emboss the clock die with Versamark ink and silver embossing powder.  Two coats of embossing powder were needed to get a smooth, metal look.

Adhere clock face to front of wooden snowflake.  

Paint the metal pendulum with the orange yellow metal color paint.  Let dry.  The photo shows just the hanger painted to show you the difference.

Measure and paint two ¼" wooden dowels with the orange yellow metal paint and adhere to lower half of box along the sides.

Put clock parts together and adhere wooden snowflake clock onto box at the top, just above the two dowels.  Adhere glittered snowflake to pendulum, and three rusty metal snowflakes to inside box.

Adhere reindeer ornament and holly sprig to bottom of box.

Select four matching scroll die cut pieces from the Clock Die Cuts, cover with Versamark ink, and heat emboss with a rust embossing powder.  The photo shows the one on the left "rusted".

Adhere to the sides of the box in the center.

Another look from the front and side!  I really love how this turned out.

Supplies:

Sin City Stamps:  Penguins on Ice rubber stamp set; Clock Die Cuts; Clock Die Cut
Walnut Hollow Rustic Wood Ledge
Other:  white gesso, Green Gold Texture paint; Versamark ink pad; wooden laser cut snowflake; Primary Yellow and Turquoise Shimmer Mister; Patina  and German Silver Gilder's Paste; Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls Mist; Orange Yellow Precious Metal Color; Clock with Pendulum parts, rusty metal snowflakes, Christmas ornaments

I hope you enjoyed my project today.  I know it was long, but mixed media usually is.  In any case, I hope you are inspired to make your own clock, whether for Christmas, or as a gift specific to someone you know.

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to visit Sin City Stamps and the team for all your stamping inspiration, and gift giving, products.

Have a super wonderful weekend!

Barbara