Mixed media - Altered Bottle

Hi friends 

Happy Morning! 

Today i have come up with another mixed media on an empty glass bottle. It was really fun making this and i have used some craft sand and gesso. This particular bottle is different in shape i mean each row has a dent of equal width. ufortunately those pics got deleted :(

 so in every alternate coloum i have used sand and in another left  over coloum i have designed with stencil and gesso

Final view of the bottle

Here u can see i have colored alternatively with 2 different colors. I have used chalk paints Duck green and French blue from Papericious As u can see in center also there is some unevenness.

so i have adhered some gauze to give rough texture ( which is optional) and painted with chalk paint blue and pink mix to give purple shade

Then i have stuck some shells using Soft gloss gel in wave manner.

Expressions Stencils Wave

I have designed alternatively using the stencils and sand texture paste 

This is how it looks after drying

This is the final and interesting step . Playing with colors.I have used blue, bronze, gold to give some metallic finish.

Close-up pic shows that i have used some sequins, tubes, pearls and seed beads in alternate space to give some rich metallic look

Finally i have used  3-D gold outliner from fevicryl  to add some bubbles. 

and here is the final product.

Supplies Used:

Empty glass bottle

shells

sequins, pearls, beads from my stash

Expressions stamps stencils Wave design

craft sand

Hope you all enjoyed  this work. Please leave your valuable feed back in comment section.
Have a wonderful day!!
Thanks
BhavaniBalaji

Miniature Garden

A peaceful garden with fresh beautiful flowers will surely create a calm and happy feeling to our soul. Fluttering of bird's wings and harmonious birds song bring heavenly ambiance. of course, every one would have experienced this feeling once in there lifetime. if not come and enjoy my miniature garden!......LOL

Hi crafty girls

Happy morning! 

Today I have come up with miniature garden with cute little flowers, birds and mini plants. All these are handmade no moulds are used to create pots, birds and bird house.

Back view of the garden wall

To create this wall i have used Brick Wall stencils from Expressions stamps, applied gesso over it. Then sprayed with spray paint over the dried texture. I have used orange and green tone to give an Algae formed look to the wall with the dry moss. 

Mini Bird house

Here there is two mini bird house, one with clay (Brown colour) and another with chipboard (Blue color)

For the roof  and backdrop of the wall i have used Nakshathra Designz Decoupage papers

 View of ladder,empty pots

cute mini ladder is made out of chipboard and extra rope is hanging on the wall..... LOL. Again for the path lane i have used the same Brick wall stencils

Different variety of mini ceramic pots i have used and the pots with brown terracotta color and the birds water feeder was handmade by me using Thai clay. 

Side view of the garden wall

For overall fencing i used decorative Chip board embellishments from expressions stencils. Painted with blue chalk paint.

Miniature Handmade pots

Though the pots are not with good finished edges, they suit aptly for this garden.

some of the closeup shots of flowerss

Supplies Used:

Expressions stencils Brick wall

(http://www.craftsneed.com/brickwall)

Expresions Decorative chipboard Embellishments

Fence 1 

(http://www.craftsneed.com/fence-1)

Fence 2

(http://www.craftsneed.com/fence-2)

Dry Moss

(http://www.craftsneed.com/dry-moss-dark-green)

Chalk paint from expressionscraft

(https://www.craftsneed.com/immix)

White Heavy Gesso from immix expressionscraft

(https://www.craftsneed.com/heavy-gesso-white-180gms)

Thai clay

(http://www.craftsneed.com/thai-caly)

Brown floral wire and Brown floral tape

(http://www.craftsneed.com/brown-floral-wire-24-guage)

(http://www.craftsneed.com/brown)

 

                       

   

Hope you all enjoyed my cute miniature Garden as much as i did. Please don't forget to leave your comments. All materials available in www.craftsneed.com

Pre-orders  welcome!

   

Mother Nature

Hello friends
As today is being worlds Earth Day Myself Bhavani Balaji sharing  the Mother Nature project with you all. This project involves lot of expressions craft products. especially my favorite Sculptor Tex Contour Medium - Clear  which is recently launched.

Side view of the mother nature

View the cute little fabric mushrooms

Hope you like my Creative Mother Nature. Stay tuned for more projects using Sculptor tex contor medium

Please do leave some love

Hugs 

Bhavani Balaji

List of supplies used:

Expressions craft immix Metallic paints

Jungle green

Browney Rust

Fabric pack

Chipboard embellishment - Leafy flourish

Sculptor Tex contour medium - Clear

Face mould

Deco stones Mini, Micro

immix Heavy Gesso white

Sprinkle Glitz

Magic sparks

Dry moss

Chest nut sprinkle mists

Frames and Flowers

Frames and Flowers

Hello friends
Today is Sunday and its a relaxing day for all. So myself  Bhavani Balaji here to give you some inspirations on current month challenge theme "FRAMES & FLOWERS". I decided to gift some cards to my loved ones so created these cards with expressions craft chipboard embellishments. sprinkle mists and handmade flowers.

Procedure to make:

1. Cut white card stocks from expressions craft. I cut the CS into 12" breadth and 6" height to form a card base
2. Then i cut orange, purple and flamingo pink CS a bit lesser than the card base.
3. Take a white CS again and cut 5.75" square pc
4. I used a thin star tissue paper from my stash and stuck it on the white square CS using immix Art medium
5. Started misting with water and immix sprinkle mists blaze orange, Dark Purple and Deep Teal Blue
6.  To complete my composition i used few frame Chip board embellishments, Hand made flowers, Deco stones and Fairy dust 
7. Finally dilute some black gesso or acrylic paints with water and give some sprinkles over the entire card using the paint brush. Now u are done!

Few close-up shots

Hope you all liked it