Spring has sprung

I can't wait for the warmer weather to come so I've made a spring themed project just for fun to cheer myself up, lol

I made this Watering can made with a download from  my Silhouette machine,

Using some of the gorgeous Mintay papers from the 12" x 12" Birdsong collection, I loved the way this paper had on the design bits that looked like my watering can had an aged rustic look, to enhance this I left my joins rugged to appear like my watering can is a little antique lol (ie: falling to bits) he he,

I fussy cut some Butterflies here and there from the Birdsong collection,

I die cut some wellies from a piece of Mintay paper from the Lovely Day collection, then layered these up in front of some wooden pieces and a frame I made out of one of two of the images from the Birdsong collection from a 6" x 6" paper pad, I die cut the frame section out and placed it in front of the bird image, then I added a lovely chipboard piece by BlooMar from the flower Elements set 001 on the top edge too, this I cut down and just used parts of it,

I die cut some Hydrangea flowers out of white cardstock then coloured them with a damp wet wipe and Soft pastels, look how fabulous the veins show from the die when coloured this way onto the card stock,

I  die cut the leaves from the leaves 5 die by Lady E Design but this time I used Olive Green Foamiran which can be bought from 

Swedish House Crafts, Suha has other colours available as well,

I used wired stamens for the centers of my Hydrangeas and these I simply stuck into a piece of oasis dry flower foam with a layer of Sisal on the top, 

Full view again,

Have you seen Emilia, Lady E Designs is having a spring flowers themed challenge over on her
 Face Book site,
 why not join in the fun,

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Swedish House Crafts

Happy Crafting!!!

Foamiran Hydrangea styled flowers on a mixed media project

Hi guys, Have you seen the latest fabulous Dies

  Flower 5 - Hydrangea and Leaf 5 - Vine 

by 

Lady E Designs

They look gorgeous when used with paper and or Foamiran, I showed you some I'd made the other day with white 0.6 Foamiran and today I'm going to show you how I used them with a link to a tutorial I have done showing how I coloured and created them too,

As you can I am in the mood for spring!!! Lol

So I started with a Styrofoam egg which I painted with some white Gesso first, then I used some Powertex mixed with some small art stones, brushing this onto the egg, then I let this dry, then I went over parts of the egg with a watered down blue paint made with Lindys stamp gang Magicals, when dry I went over with a washed down Gesso again, this made the colour subtle but still gave a hint of colour,

Using some more of the Powertex I added some cheesecloth around the middle of the egg, with some cotton threads over the top, again I let this dry,

When dry I painted the cheesecloth and threads with some Finnabair Sparks paint in Unicorns Hair, let dry, I then used some of the Unicorn paint to roughly paint under where the flower display would be too,

I then started on my created Hydrangea flowers, I first cut down the stems off the stamens as close behind to the flower heads as possible,

Taking some sisal in a natural colour I hot glued some to one side of the egg, then arranged my Hydrangea flowers over this alternating the sizes and the colours,

Closer view,

On the top of the egg, I used another latest Lady E design die Leaf 5, this I cut out of some paper then I coloured here and there with some soft pastels,

I cut a few more the same way, then snipped bits off  and placed them here and there among the flowers,

I then finished off the egg with some larger Art Stones and a Air Dry clay bird I made with a mould from my stash, this sits above some twigs which I had collected off some trees when the wind was howling earlier in the year!!! , see recycling!!! Lol

Here is the link to my You tube channel video showing how I created the Hydrangeas,
https://youtu.be/DJtlpRxGoRs

Hope you like it, as always any questions, just ask

Lady E Designs
0.6 Foamiran white - Swedish House crafts

Happy Crafting!!!