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I  loved working with my Foundations Décor wood objects.  Here is one of the projects I created last month, today you will see side one.  Tomorrow I will share the back.  I enjoy creating two different themes on each side of my Foundation Décor projects!

Supplies:
Foundations Décor Sweet Heart House
Dixie Belle Paint Butter Creamy
Dixie Belle Van Dyke Glaze
Sunshine in my Soul 8x8  Paper Pad
Adhesive - Glue
Sheet Music
Flowers
Metallic Luster Wax

This house is Foundations Décor Sweet Heart House.  I decided to give the first side a bird theme and call it "Home Tweet Home."

Foundations Décor Sweet Heart House comes with the three pieces pictured above.

First, I painted the all sides of the Foundations Décor Sweet Heart House with Dixie Belle Paint Butter Creamy! Let it dry, then traced the house onto the Sunshine in my Soul 8x8  Paper Pad.  

Apply a thin layer of glue to the house, then carefully attach the paper.  Let dry!  

Once it is dry sand the edges of the paper.

Paint the sides of the house with Dixie Belle Van Dyke Glaze and wipe off the excess.

 From the Sheet Music tear a small piece of music, distress with  Metallic Luster Wax. 

With glue adhere the piece of Sheet Music to the house!

 

Add additional embellishments: flowers, charms etc.  Home Tweet Home has a small metal plate that says:

Love

Joy

Peace

Patience

 

 

Hope you have enjoyed this little bird house!

 

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN - Day 15

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN 2016 CHALLENGE

I will be posting a Halloween project each day during the month of October. Halloween is one of my favorites holidays... join me daily and comment on my blog each day. I will have a weekly drawing from all of my comments.... each day you comment your name is put in the draw!   Fridays at Midnight I will draw a name and include the winner in my Saturday post! I am really excited to be a part of the 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN and this amazing group of artists!

We are having a big storm in the Pacific NW over the next few days... I am posting ahead incase we don't have power.  It seems to go out when we get big winds!!!  If that is the case I will post the winner as soon as I have power... keep commenting!

I still have power!!!!

AND THE WINNER IS

 

AMANDA PHILLIPS

CONGRATS!!!

Now for my next altered project... BOO BIRD HOUSE

 

 

 

WEEKLY Prize:

A box of Mystifying Mints with a bag of goodies! 

 

 

Remember to comment each day

 for  more chances in my weekly drawing!

 

Then be sure to visit the artists in the blog roll below...
all posts are scheduled to be up at 9am PT!

 

Happy 31 Days of Halloween

 

Terra
Sarah
Alison
Amanda
Lyneen
Susan S
Shell
Susan R
Lost Coast Portal To Creativity
Monique
​Dream In Darkness
Airless Chambers
​Jessica
​Michelle
Kelli
Kapree
Genny
Sue
Lisa

 

Sweet Little Birdhouse!

Several of these cute little bird houses would make cute decorations on a party table.  Use them for a tea party or a spring time center piece.

Supplies:
Wooden birdhouse
Craft Paint
Dew Drops - Easter
Tear Drops - Rose Hips
Robin's Nest Pink Roses on Green Cardstock
Robin's Nest Bunny Stripe Cardstock
Silk Flowers
Yellow Shred
Glue stick
Tacky Glue

Paint wooden birdhouse with craft paint.

Measure sides and roof of the birdhouse, cut Robin's Nest Pink Roses on Green Cardstock to fit, adhere with glue stick.

On the front use a small file to get clean edges for the heart opening of the birdhouse.

Use tacky glue to trim the roof with Tear Drops - Rose Hips

Add trim around the bottom of the house using stripe from Robin's Nest Bunny Stripe Cardstock.

Add Dew Drops - Easter around the bottom of the birdhouse platform.

A gold dew drop on the end of the perch, silk flowers add a garden touch to the little birdhouse and yellow shred inside the birdhouse are the finishing touches! 

HOW TWEET IS THAT!!!

My Last Creative Paperclay® Quick Tip

This is my last post as a member of the Creative Paperclay® Design Team. I have had a great time sharing my ideas with you this past year. 

For my final not so quick tip I thought I would share some of the projects I have done over this last year.  When viewing them I noticed they all had one thing in common, all of them are finished with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer, most have Terry Sproul Mixers. 

What I have found is Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer is a one step finish on Creative Paperclay®.  When I used the lacquer mixed with the mixers I only had to paint my projects one time and had a sealed coating on the Creative Paperclay®.  

This mask was for my Creative Paperclay® Design Team application in April of 2012, it was never posted on the Creative Paperclay® blog. Made by molding Creative Paperclay over an inexpensive mask. The flower is a paper napkin adhered with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer. The rest of the mask is painted with Sakura Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers: Red Garnet and Citrine mixed (making a beautiful tangerine color.)  See more about the Mask HERE on my blog!

For this altered tin I molded a Frozen Charlotte with Creative Paperclay® from an Articus mold. She was painted with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terry Sproul Mixers - Citrine. Original post is HERE!

My Creative Paperclay® wall pocket was inspired by vintage Victorian wall pockets. The pocket was painted with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terry Sproul Mixers - Bronze. It has a very vintage look, see the original post HERE.

The Creative Paperclay® Fascinator is one of the only projects  that I painted with craft paint (black) and came back and sealed it with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer. Original post HERE!

The Creative Paperclay®  crown fit for a princess was painted with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terry Sproul Mixers - Gold. One of the only projects I gave a second coat of the Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer/Mixers.  I was after a "rich golden color." Original post HERE!

This inexpensive bird house was altered with Creative Paperclay® peices. The Creative Paperclay® pieces were painted with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terry Sproul Mixers: large leaves -  Pearl Green, tiny flowers - Citrine Pearl, large flowers - Rose Pearl, small leaves - Tanzanite Pearl mixed with Shimmer Citrine and birds Aquamarine Pearl. Original post HERE!

 

 

The Fall Tree was created for the Creative Paperclay® and Amazing Mold Putty Blog Hop, which was never posted on the Creative Paperclay® blog. The leaves are molded out of Creative Paperclay® and painted with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terry Sproul Mixers - Citrine Pearl, Rose Pearl and Shimmer Garnet. I love how the colors mixed when I painted the leaves. Original post HERE!

You can bet I will be using Creative Paperclay® in many of my future projects and will be sharing them on my blog, Dreaming of Castles.