Halloween Shadowbox by Yasmin Tölche

Hello all! It's getting closer and closer to Halloween and I've made a halloween decoration with the Marion Smith Designs "Wicked Times" Collection. I love it!

I have to say I do adore making these shadowboxes and gluing all sorts of nicknacks into them. This one was just so fun to make!

This is little shadowbox with trinkes ready to decorate my house. I've added papers for the "Wicked Times" collection to the background and glued loads of junque and gems to accent my piece. The sceleton is the coolest thing ever and are dangeling loosley in front of the box. The flowers are Marion Smith Designs and the small little brown bottle is also a junque and gems.

I can't say it enough the sceleton is just way cool. I've painted the whole box with black gesso, Then I added colorlab pigment into white gesso to make the orange and the purple paints. I covered the whole piece with crackle paint. I'm still unsure if that was the right move. What do you guys think. 

Anyways.. Hope you have a fantastic halloween celebration! Thanks for joining me here today! 

Yasmin

Mini Shadowbox by Yasmin Tölche

Hello everyone! It's Yasmin on the blog today here at Marion Smith Designs and I have a mini Shadowbox to share with you. Sometimes I do love making these small altered projects. Even though they take as much time making a big one.

I've used papers on the back of the shadowbox from the junque gypsey line. I also cut out a butterfly wing and stuck it behind the cameo. The bottles are from MSD alon with the golden gem key in the front. Itsn't it beautiful? 

To add loads of texture I added pearls and microbeads to the flowers and compartments. I really like this type of texture. The bottles are perfecly small and lovely to add glassbeads, sand and embossing powder.

Thank you so much for joing me here today at the MSD blog :) 

Yasmin

Marion Smith Designs and Petaloo Blog Hop :: Day 05 with Yasmin Tölche

Hello everyone, Yasmin on the blog today wishing you a big welcome to Marion Smith Designs and Petaloo Blog Hop! There has been so many inspiration this week, I hope you have enjoyed it.

I have two projects I'd like to share with you today! a tag and a Shadowbox. Let's start with the Tag :)

I've used Marion Smith Design "Timekeeper" collection and beautiful Petaloo flowers. 

The tag is masculine, perfect to give on fathers day or as a birthday card to a man. :) 

My next project is a Shadowbox. I tend to keep fun boxes and things that you get embellishement or things like that in, This one has been an old card case. 

I've painted it with black gesso and some texture paste with sand in it. I aslo added micropearls in black and silver to get a more sparkely look. 

I've use flowers, gears, bottles and other things. A perfect fathers day gift! :)

Products used: 

Marion Smith Designs - TimeKeeper - Carnival

Marion Smith Designs - Time Keeper - Merchant

Marion Smith Designs - Time Keeper - Cogs and Gears

Marion Smith Designs - Junque and Gems - Mini Bottles

Petaloo Flowers - Mini Textures Blossoms - Black

Petaloo Flowers - Mini Texture Blossoms - Teal

Petaloo Flowers - Sugared Blooms - Teal

Petaloo Flowers - Chantilly Velvet Hydrageas - Blue 

Thank you soo much for stopping by today! Please make sure to visit the Petaloo blog aswell for more stunning projects! 

Yasmin

Spring Shadowbox - by Tonya Gibbs

Hi everyone, I hope your week is off to a great start. With the weather so frigid everywhere, I wanted to create something that reminded me of spring.  I dug through some old photos and found this 5x7 of my niece Averie, and a 9x9 Shadowbox that I've been hoarding. 

It all started with a mixed media tag. I bought some of the Faber Castell Design Memory Craft glaze and wanted to experiment with it.  I love to experiment on tags, and then I try to make something with the tag.   On this tag, I used modeling paste and a stencil to get the hexagons.  Then painted the entire card with a soft green paint. Then I mixed the glaze with a gold colored acrylic, wiped it across the entire tag. Waited a few minutes then used a baby wipe to clean it off. The glaze actually stayed in the recessed areas, and helped to provide shadows on my tag.    I then started playing with some of the left overs from other Marion Smith projects, and used Marion's Hot Air Balloon stamp to create a pattern for the balloon on the tag.  The little girl and the saying were cut from the Mad Tea Party collection. 

Since the saying talks about seeds that grow I decided to build a little garden scene for my little girl to stand.   I used a vine as my base, then made a few flowers to cover the vine.

I removed the glass from the shadow box, and built my floral spray to spill out over the frame's edge.  I stitched together some punched scraps from Marion's Mad Tea Party line to create the banner that I placed across the top of the frame.

I just love how this frame turned out, and it is going to look fabulous on my wall. 

Thanks for stopping in today,

Tonya Gibbs

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