Craft Barn Wishing Well - Shrink Plastic

Hi everyone! Another wishing well day at the Craft Barn blog today and this time we're using shrink plastic which is a wish granted for Christine C who wins a prize for having her question picked and wanted to know about inks etc., that can be used on shrink plastic.  On the Craft Barn Blog there's a wonderful tutorial by Kay with lots of her gorgeous samples using different colouring mediums on the shrink together with a beautiful sample and 'how to' from Isa for another completely different look :D.


I used alcohol ink on my shrink plastic after die cutting it with Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations dies and used it to decorate a large wooden peg. All the details of the materials and a little 'how to' are on the Craft Barn Blog and if you leave a question on the wishing well post and it's picked you can win a great prize. Enjoy your day.

Craft Barn DT project

Hi everyone, hope you're all well today and looking forward to the weekend. I have another project for the Craft Barn today and this time Isabelle challenged us to make an ATC and incorporate some micro beads, I've used mine to make a topper for another of my little boxes and used the Paper Artsy and Crafty Individuals clock stamps. I have one more box from the set of three to decorate, I'm trying to do them all with a clocks theme. My DT friends have made some gorgeous ATCs, all very different, I hope you can pop over and have a look and if you'd like to win a little prize of  micro beads and embossing powder you can join in the challenge too by creating your own ATC and entering it in the link by midnight on 10th November.

Here's a list of the products I used for my ATC:Eco green white acrylic paint
cosmic shimmer mist bronze blush and midnight blue
Beadazzles, waltz
Paper Artsy Stamps, clocks 1
Crafty Individuals stamps, clock faces
blue metal sheet
glossy accents
black soot distress ink
gold pearl pen
stickles glitter glue
metal tools


Have a good Friday!

Craft Barn Wishing Well - Alcohol Inks and Eco Friendly Paints

Hi everyone it's the Craft Barn Wishing Well day today and the DT were challenged by Melsh to show techniques using alcohol inks. Melsh also wins a prize as her question was chosen, congrats -Melsh!. The box I've made uses alcohol inks with Eco Friendly acrylic paint on chipboard and I've made a step by step which is over on The Craft Barn blog and if you add a comment on the post then there's another chance to win a prize! My DT friend Isa has also made a piece using this technique which is beautiful and using a different colour option. The wishing well remains open for suggestions to the team. Thanks as always for your lovely comments, I always appreciate them.

BasicGrey Challenges 31 - Autumn/Harvest Time

Hi everyone, hope your weekend is off to a good start. A new challenge on BasicGrey challenges today which is Autumn/Harvest Time. There's some wonderful inspiration from my DT friends and a great prize from our sponsor Simon Says Stamp so I hope you can join us.

I've given my plain wooden box the distressed treatment with acrylic paint, lots scraping back and sanding and over stamping with a polka dot background stamp. On top I've decorated with die cut paper from the BasicGrey Capella collection and a moulded acetate TH alterations die cut leaf which has been coloured with alcohol inks and covered in Utee, I also added the metal catch on the front and some gold metallic ink inside and on the edges of the top panel which means I can enter the SSSS challenge this week of 'show your metal' :). 

Enjoy your Saturday and thanks as always for your lovely comments.

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Numbers

Hi everyone, hope you're having a lovely weekend. I'm just scraping in on the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge which this week is numbers. I've made some tags which are all embossed using the TH Patchwork folder and this has lots of numbers in various forms to emboss each of the tags which were placed in slightly different parts of the folder for each emboss. Cosmic Shimmer mist was sprayed over all the tags then I went over the raised areas with black distress ink and some acrylic paint here and there. Around the edges I smoothed on some Iron Filings Viva Decor paste and added some BasicGrey Boxer fibres, bronze half pearls, a TH die cut sparkle powder embossed swirl, charms and a nail head brad which were re-coloured with alcohol ink.  They're all the same colour scheme except the tag top left is catching the light more and showing up the sheen from the Cosmic shimmer, I love this colour combo of Midnight Blue and Bronze Blush. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday :)