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Friday, April 3, 2020

Guest Designer Jenn ~ Home Decor Anything But a Card Challenge

Hello everyone! I'm so happy to be back on the blog today with this month's theme of Not a Card.

I created a little piece of home decor—something you could put on a desk or a shelf or anywhere really!

I started with a small wooden pot that I picked up at a local craft store.

I painted it with some acrylic paint in yellow and a sort of raspberry color. I am really into this color palette lately. I like how the colors combine to make orange so you really end up with three colors. (At the last minute, I added some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Ink and a little white paint as well. You can see that in the pictures at the end.)

Once the pot was dry, I stamped all sides of it with the gorgeous Fancy Curls & Flowers Flourish Art Rubber Stamp by Terri Sproul. I love this stamp!!

Next, I stamped the Bird Open Wings Patterned Art Rubber Stamp with black ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Once I fussy cut it, I colored it with Distress Oxide Ink in Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry. I ended up cutting the bird shape on another piece of paper and coloring that with Distress Oxide Ink as well. I needed to be able to hide the wire I was going to use to hold up the bird. (A photo of that is at the end.)

I got a piece of floral wire, cut it to length, and wrapped it in washi tape.

Then I took my stamped, embossed, and colored bird along with my plain bird shape and put them together on the wire using mounting tape. I put a small piece of floral foam in the bottom of the pot and put the wire in.

I added some Spanish moss and dabbed it with some white paint for a little contrast.

Finally, I stamped the Dare to Fly Small Word Art Stamp on white paper, cut it to size, layered it with black paper, and adhered it to the pot.

I really enjoyed making this! It was just the right project to welcome spring.

This is my last post for a bit while I deal with some medical issues. I hope to be back in a couple of months. In the meantime, stay safe and healthy and kind. Remember, we're all in this together!

-Jenn

@littlejennvirginian

@paperchicks

Thanks so much Jenn! All our thoughts and best wishes to you! Please find the link to the challenge either up top or to the side!

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Tiny Spring Pots

Hi! Mercy here and spring is (somewhat) in the air. With trying to keep ahead of the seasons, and in this case, spring ahead of spring with making some decorative flower pots to brighten your home (both indoors and out). Mini pots from the Dollar Tree were used in this example that came in a set of three, but any earthenware, standard flower pot can be used. As an added bonus, the decorative pots do not have to have dirt and living plants in them to use, but can be used as storage for other items or just decorative element in a room or in a garden.

Supplies:
Heart & Geometric Stamps
Flower Flourish
Flower Filled with Butterflies
Leaf
Mini Blank Flower Pots
Black Archival Ink
Markers in varying shades of red (pink to red), orange, yellow, purple and green
Stickles (glitter glue)

Instructions:

1. Wipe clean the outside surface of your clay pot with a wet wipe or clean damped with water cloth. Make sure all dust, dirt an clay particles are clear from the stamping surface.

2. Attach small heart stamp from Hearty Doodles set to a block and using black archival ink, stamp the heart across the belly in intersecting positions. Once that is complete, clean off small stamp and use Distress Festive Berries and stamp a mall heart border across the lip section. Allow the hearts to overlap. Then, take the larger heart from the same Hearty Doodle sheet and impress across the black stamped hearts with Festive Berries. Once you are happy with the overall stamped surface, start coloring in the hearts using your markers.

2. Allow to dry. Move on to the next pot using the same concepts as the first, but with different stamps. In this example, the Flourish Flower was used on the belly of the pot, overlapping slightly, with black archival ink and the leaf stamp was used on the top lip area as a border. Everything was hand colored with markers.

3. Since this was a pack of three, another set of BPM stamps were used (this time the butterfly, flower silhouette, distorted circle filter and geometric shapes) to enhance the outside of the pot. Archival black ink again was used. The smaller stamps work great on the stamping blocks, but the larger stamps were not mounted to the block as I wrapped the stamp around the curved surface carefully. The porous surface took on the ink beautifully.

4. The last steps on these pots were mostly just adding more color from my markers. On the heart pot, a dark purple Tombo pen was used to fill in most of the background. On the flower/butterfly one, I just darkened the background of the lip in a dark red and stamped over it with black archival ink. To add a bit of sparkle bling and dimension, Stickles were used as dots or coloring some of the hearts.

Note that I used a lot of watercolor and non-permanent colors because they were in my stash of tools. If you wanted a more permanent color, use your permanent markers and inks more. You can also spray sealant across the finished pot if you want to make the decorations last longer.

Hopefully these fun pots bring a little spring into your life and hearts! Happy Stamping!