Hi Crafty Friends! Again Suzna here. I hope you are ready for more of inspiration :-).
Today I'm sharing an altered Bird house, I made using lots of different Creative Embellishments, like metal charms & flowers. This was really fun to create with especially Prima marketing art mediums
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Inside of the frame was not heavy with mediums, but heavy with lots of flowers :-)
I have to admit - effects were simply breathtaking: all the different colours, textures and compositions made this bird house totally unforgettable for me. I think i may be tempted to make one more project with prima art mediums..
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1. When i got this frame, i was confused. How to decorate this bird house. But the Prima marketing mediums gave more confident to go forward.
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2. I started off by gluing all the metal emblishment pieces onto the outside and inside the frame.
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3. I painted everything with two coats of Black gesso
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4. When the gesso was dry, i took 3 colors of iridescent Mica powers. And i made the metalic paste by mixing with Modeling paste.
1st Lilac Opal Magic with Modeling paste
2nd Peach Opal Magic with Modeling Paste
3rd Gold Opal Magic with Modeling paste
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5. This is the way i made the paste. Very small amount of 3 separate mix. bcoz only we need to touch up with brush
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6. After this process i feel i need more color layer required, so i took Acrylic Dark velvet. And i painted only on edges
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7. Final layer coloring : Metallique Wax
8. Next part is decorating inside: Why i choose pattern paper inside, bcoz this metal frames are shadow box. And i dont like again dark inside.
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9. Only 1 12"X12" paper is required for covering inside all sides
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10. Prima paper vine flowers are always perfect for decorating roof of this house. And i forget to tell you, i choose gel mediums to fix the metal charms.
Hot glue is problematic though - it chips off! It won't stay permanently on any acrylic, glass, metal or plastic element, especially if there's a lot of water around it! My option is securing my embellishment with the coat of Modeling Paste or gel mediums.
And hot glues are perfect for gluing paper flowers :-)
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11. Adding lots of different size paper flowers, like layer
This way my altered frame was fully decorated on the outside inside, and quite pretty I have to admit, even without any photo or item inside... but of course I couldn't resist and for the photos I had to add something inside
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12. Final touch were done with colored micro balls and matte finish mode podge.
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I hope you've enjoyed the project
Thanks for visiting today!
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Suzna
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So gorgeous !!!
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Dr Sonia
Beautiful Suzna... God bless you
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