in which I have incorporated dozens of crafty techniques and products. Its a long post so just scroll down flipping through the photos and pause to read about any part you find interesting! Would love to have your comments though!
stack that had a beautiful image of a vintage ship sailing and used it to line my box. Used the dry brush technique to put shiny
The
water droplets you see all over my box are actually made of
resin...and no I didnt purposely go ahead and make them but they are a result of resin spills during my resin experiments...they do look charming dont they?
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| Golden Embossed Sun |
What is the sea with out the sun?!! I altered a chipboard sun with gold
embossing powder and gave a partial dabbing with
acrylic gold paint and a few drops of
golden liquid pearls.
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| Shell Craft |
The other corner of the box lid has a net [ recycled vegetable packaging!], more favorites from my shell collection , a shell shaped bead [from my daughter's bead jewelry making set] and a golden anchor.
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| Resin Crafts |
On the front of the box is the beautiful and apt sentiment "
Dream Big" from the same paper collection. I think the oceans are so dreamy and inspiring and must have inspired many souls over the ages!
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| Resin Crafts |
I made this beautiful oval
resin embellishment in clear resin and placed a turquoise oval surrounded by golden paper behind it to give it a multicolored hue! Wrapped a golden chain of rhinestone crystals around it to make it shimmer even more!
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| Resin Crafts |
The shiny
silver waves are cut from glitter foam using a Cheery Lynn die and I added
chunky blue glitter along the edge of the lid.
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| Foam Craft |
The big pearly white "seaweed" was made using this mold and
white glue sticks!
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| Glue Gun Craft |
You can read how I did it here :
Porcelain tutorial
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| Glue Gun Crafts |
And yes hung a little
lamp to shed light during stormy dark nights !
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| Resin Crafts |
And my favorite
Resin Dolphin which you saw in my
Ocean Photo frame too!
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| Resin Crafts |
I made all the
Resin embellishments in this project using local Resin [seen in the 2 big cans in the photo above] and silicon moulds [meant for chocolates!]. I have been experimenting with resin for some time now and its so addictive to make all the fun resin embellishments right at home. Will share a tips and tutorial post soon!
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| Clay and Resin |
This is the side of the box and stars a
clay star fish I had made earlier and salvaged from our
fish tank decoration project .
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| Metal Lamp Charm |
The shimmering green leaves were cut from textured
foam [ amazing what treasures you can get on a trip to the local market !] using Cheery Lynn olive branch and I hung the
magic lamp from a piece of pearl mat! I somehow always associate the sea with a bit of magic!
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| Resin and Foam Craft |
The
sea weed is heat embossed chipboard and Cheery Lynn foam die cuts. All the glistening
water droplets are resin drops!
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| Resin Crafts |
And that is the other side of the with a big
Resin sea horse surrounded by
resin sea weeds on a textured background !
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| Resin Crafts |
The beautiful glistening little beads you see were created using
glass beads gel. You can read more about it here :
Texture Media Experiments
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| Resin crafts |
When I made the
Resin sea horse and seaweeds seen here I added a bit of glitter before the resin set in the mould ! I added pearly blue acrylic paint on parts of the base of the seahorse so that the sea horse looks blue - green and shimmers when you look at it from different directions!
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| Ocean Themed Box |
I hope you like my altered Ocean themed Box.
