Saturday savers - Build it up with Gio

Saturday Savers 

a dedicated day of stash using, recycling, upcycling and general planet saving!

Hi, 
Third week for our Saturday Savers. How are you enjoying it so far? 
Fabulous project (me think) from Gio today. Looove those colours and it is such a pretty design too. 
Looking forward to hearing from you in a comment below.

I gathered a piece of empty kitchen roll, a cereal box and a cardstock tea box and I cut them to size.

I gessoed some book pages and I covered the cardstock pieces. I added some texture using Dreamweaver embossing paste: Transluscent through 

The Crafters Workshop template - Circle explosion spreading it with a palette knife.

 When dry, I started to paint using PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints: Eggplant for the cereal box, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints: Smoked paprika for the kitchen roll and PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints: Beach hut for the tea box. I also painted the scalloped frame and the base of the Tando Creative Sweet tooth kit with the same colours.

I added Tim Holtz Tissue Tape Nostalgic all along the inner borders of the cardstock pieces.

I stamped some flowers and branches from PaperArtsy stamps - Eclectica: Lin Brown 01 using several Archival ink pad on a piece of gessoed book page and on the cardstock base. I cut them out. I glued them to another piece of gessoed book page lightly coloured with Archival ink and a little sponge. I adhered it to the scalloped Tando frame.

I assembled everything. I added some chipboard details from the same Tando kit, stamped with archival ink pad and a script stamp from Hot Picks 1006.

I enlightened the raised areas with some Dreamweaver metallic F/X.

Materials

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints 

Tando Creative: Sweet tooth 

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints: Eggplant, Smoked paprika, London bus, Beach hut

PaperArtsy stamps - Eclectica: Lin Brown 01 

Archival ink pads 

The Crafters Workshop template - Circle explosion 

Hot Picks 1006 on EZ mount

Dreamweaver metallic F/X

Tim Holtz embellishments: Tissue Tape Nostalgic 

gesso

Glossy accents

Microbeads

Glue

See you tomorrow

Build it up week - Sylvie

Hi, 
Sylvie is with us today and she built up a beautiful 3D display with her die-cuts to add to the side of an altered paper bag. Look at the details on there, really scrumptious. 
Sylvie used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints and stamps, along with Crafty Individuals stamps and Memory Box + Spellbinders + Marianne D's dies. 

Take a brown paper bag (or any colour paper bag) and apply the following PaperArtsy Fresco Finish colours: Nougat, Mermaid and South Pacific as well as touch of Irish Cream

Add touches of Vintage Photo, Tea Dye and Salty Ocean Distress inks as well as Distress Stains in Walnut Stain and Salty Ocean.

Cut out your differents die cuts in brown cardstock and brush them with a bit of Treasure Gold (Sapphire, Ruby, White fire, Gold)

Using Versamark and any stamp you like (here PaperArtsy), stamp randomly on the bag using Stamp and Bond ink and press the Shiny Transfer Foil

Emboss the fern die-cut with Cosmic Shimmer powder (Aurora Persian Sea ). Stamps the bag with Versamark and emboss (here with Cosmic Shimmer Orange Blaze)

Add touches of Treasure Gold on the remaining branches

Sylvie used

Nestabilities Marvelous squares

Shapeabilities Asian Accents

Marianne design die - Creatables : Branch and flower 1, Chinese rose, Leaves, Circles

Die Memory Box : Delicate fern

Paper Artsy Fresco Finish acrylic paints : South Pacific, Irish Cream, Nougat, Mermaid

Tampon mini MN72

Tando creative mini: keys

Cosmic Shimmer powders: Aurora Orange Blaze et Persian Sea

Crafty Individuals stamps: CI-248

Stix 2 : shiny transfer foil set

Stamp and Bond powder

Distress inks (Vintage Photo, Salty Ocean, Tea Dye)

Distress Stains (Walnut Stain, Salty Ocean)

Turquoise gems

See you tomorrow

Build it up week - Neil

Hi, 
A lovely spring like project today made by Neil, who chose the "on the edge" die by Tim Holtz to make this beautiful tray.
Isn't it something you would love to have on your desk? 
Neil takes you step by step through the process of making this tray. Hope you will like it as much as I do. 
Let us know in a comment below.

I've used the on the edge Butterflight die to make a "tray" 

I have to say that I enjoy looking for different things to do with dies, so though these are intended to be used to create decorative edges for albums, I wondered how complicated it would be to create a box or tray from them....
And it isn't difficult really, though it is a bit fiddly! Worth it though.

I started off by using 2 6 x 6 chipboard and cut the butterflies from both sides and then cut them in half to give me four pieces. I then used some washi tape to attach them to another piece of 6 x 6 board (Using tape on one side only) I then used a selection of the new Distress paints and water to add colour to both sides.

When it was dry I used the butterfly stamp from Tim's Spring Sprung to add detail to the butterflies. I used a mask and white paint to add detail to the base of the tray.

 I used a Crop-A-Dile to punch holes on each corner. I threaded ribbon through and fastened them through to create the tray. I then used Tim's Tissue tape to go around the edges to strengthen the base and sides. 

I used dominoes for feet to lift the tray off the ground.

 So, what can you use it for? Well.... you can fit 25 Distress paints on it....

Or, in my case, I discovered that I had four metal containers fit it so I'm using it to keep my brushes, markers and stuff inside and it works perfectly.

On The Edge Die - Butterflight

Tim Holtz Stamps - Spring Sprung

Distress Paints - Various colours

Tim Holtz Tissue tape

Ribbon

Archival Jet Black ink

6 x 6 chipboard 

See you tomorrow