The Craft Barn - product of the week - Grunge Paper/Board

Hi everyone and I hope you've had a good week! For Product of the week at the Craft Barn blog this week we're showcasing Grunge Paper/Board I've made a sunglasses sliding pouch from grunge paper and as grunge paper is one of my favourite things to work with I enjoyed myself :D! I love the flexibility of it, it's moldable, paint-able, ink-able, die cut-able (is that a word :) and seems to take whatever you put on it beautifully. I did all the things I've just mentioned and I also did some sewing to hold it together. 

My DT friends have come up with some great ideas and beautiful projects so I hope you'll pop over to the blog to see what they've been up to :D.

Materials: Grunge Paper, Eco-Green Paints in Pure Copper and Ocean, Marianne Creatable Die set Open Flowers Trendy, Tando Mask - Sequin Waste, Distress Inks - Broken China, Aged Mahogany, Stormy Sky, Walnut Stain, Studs, waxed cord.

Enjoy your day :).

Compendium of Curiosities Challenge 8

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good weekend. I'm just scraping in on lovely Linda's Studio L3 Compendium of Curiosities challenge number 8 where this week it's page 39 'Inking grunge'. I chose to use grunge paper and made a necklace using the TH tattered florals die, Ranger distress inks: Broken China, spiced marmalade, worn lipstick, walnut stain, a Viva swirl stamp, Cocoa archival ink,  some brown linen thread, Viva pearl pen on the knots and a spray of pearl glimmer mist. Have a lovely Sunday.

Still on Christmas with PaperArtsy!

Hi everyone, hope you’re having a good week! Are you snowed in? We have about 8 inches of the white stuff here so we’re staying put!
This is a little Christmas tree ornament project I did before Christmas for the Craft Barn blog DT with some gorgeous PaperArtsy stamps, Ferro texture paste and precious metal paints and they were lovely to work with, I enjoyed doing it and made three of them.
Started off with a plain white chipboard arch which I covered on the right hand side with the Viva Decor Ferro texture paste in silver. While the paste was still wet I stamped into it with the Christmas tree stamp from PaperArtsy Egg and Nog 10 and I also pressed in the rows of gems at the edges at this point and allowed it dry. The whole thing was then painted with Viva precious metal paints in Azure blue and emerald green and while this was still wet I sprinkled on some green flock powder. When everything was dry I applied some Ranger Distress crackle Rock Candy paint over the left hand side and some Rock candy stickles and let it dry overnight. I used the poinsettia flower from the same Egg and Nog set, stamped it onto grunge paper cut it out then painted it with the precious metal paints, I added some perfect pearls powder while still wet. It was then curved a bit and glued to the arch with a gemstone for the centre.
To finish off I threaded some beads onto a jewellery head pin, curved a loop at the top of it and threaded through a hole near the bottom of the arch made with a piercing tool, I also added a loop of fibre through the pre-formed hole at the top to hang it on the tree. It sounds like a bit of a process but it was quite quick to make apart from allowing the crackle glaze to dry overnight and I made two of them in an evening. Take care and keep warm!