Scrap Around The World June Mood Board

So for the first time ever I decided to play along with the June Mood Board from Scrap Around The World this month. When I first saw the colours I was totally inspired. I simply loved everything about this mood board the colour mix of the vibrant yellow mixed with black, the flowers, the papers straws and the word LOVE. It feels really fresh, I know you don't have to stick to the colour palette but I couldn't help myself.

So this is the mood board for the June challenge it can be found HERE.

Absolutely gorgeous and vibrant...it put me in my happy place. And this is the page I created for the challenge.

"LOVE"

I really love the finished layout with the vibrant yellow against the dark background. It has layers from fussy cutting, topped with some beautiful Manor House Creations flowers with a finishing touch of a sprinkling of pearls and bling.

Manor House Creations Products Include

MHRW913 Ornate Frames Regency White

BEAchip011 Beautiful You Chipboard Words

DR032ivory Country Roses Ivory (misted yellow for layout)

DV033black Tea Roses Black

SYHO8blac Colourwash Double Ups - Black & Ivory

MHC050tiff Floral Mix Tiffany

MHC050krys Floral Mix Krystal (misted yellow for layout)

Ivory Mini Roses (misted yellow for layout)

So thats all for now thank you for stopping by

Joanne

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Altered Dress Form

Hello!!

Today I have an altered dress form to share with you. Manor House Creations have done a roaring 20's flower themed release for winter. They are gorgeous and when I saw them I knew I wanted to alter my dress form.

"Madeline"

I love the deep rich purple with the black. If you went into the Brisbane paper craft show you may have been lucky enough to see this for real at the Manor House Creations stand at the show.

MHC Products used: Sarah, Vine – Purple

Thanks for dropping by

Joanne

Altered Bird Cage

Bird cages...who doesn't love them. I received this one as a gift for my birthday. This time I altered yet another cage…it is the fairy-tale castle home of my ice princess. She lives within and holds a flickering battery operated candle at night.

MHC Products used: Vine – Light Blue, Vine – White, Shades – Ivory & Springtime – Blue.

Thanks for stopping by

Joanne

Manor House Creations - Altered Money Box

Monday Greetings!!!

Today I have an altered money box to share with you. I picked this up at a homewares closing down sale. I loved the big frog on the side and decided to alter it and make it even more beautiful.

I scraped away some of the silver glitter on the capri roses and painted with gesso to make them more of a whitish silver. I pulled some of the layers away from the petite roses to make some of them a little smaller and also added a splash of Shimmerz to the tips.

How gorgeous is that little froggy?

MHC Materials Used – Mayglo – Pink, Celeste – Pink, Petite Roses – Marshmellow & Capri Roses – Silver.

Manor House Creations are releasing their gorgeous new Winter Collection.

For inspiration using these beautiful new products please drop by the Manor House Creations Blog.

Thanks for stopping by

Joanne

Altered Tea Light Candle Holder

Greeting everyone!!

This project began its life as a hanging glass votive or as I would say a hanging glass Tea Light holder. Anyway when I purchased them I knew what I wanted to do with it and that was to make it into a bird nesting ball…lol. So it no longer hangs and is now firmly attached to a candelabra. I wanted to create a shabby icy feel to this one so I white washed lightly a lot of what went onto it.

I have used the feathery Fascinating white bloom as the floor inside the glass ball. I scraped away a lot of the glitter from the Capri flowers, I then painted with gesso to give them a soft wintery feel. I also pulled apart some of them to make some smaller flowers by scrunching them.

I pulled apart the Winter Song Ice Crystals White flower and used only the bottom section and nestled one of the Capri flowers to the centre so it was not quiet so big. I also slightly white washed the blue Dahlias to tone them down just a little so they would blend nicely with the Winters Song Snowbird bloom.

I added some Twiddleybitz which would be the fence, the birdhouse inside and the top from the filagree birdcage stand. I painted all of the chipboard white to give it a shabby feel. I then added a shabby prima resin oval frame to the from and some small prima flying resin birds to help imitate movement. 

MHC Products used: Winter Song – Snow Bird & Ice Crystals, Mittens, Ashlee – Blue, Capri – Blue & Silver, Dahlia – Blue & White, Fascinating – White & small leaves.

Thanks for stopping by

Joanne

Altered Vintage Trinket Box

Happy Saturday everyone!!

Today I have and altered off the page project to share. This was one of those fake book type boxes that you can get to hide keys and other valuables in, in you bookcase. Well not anymore…lol. It is now what I call a Vintage Trinket Box.

I cover the box using some prima papers, I then used gesso to give the edges a white washed effect to make the box a little bit shabby. I scraped a little of the glitter away from the Manor House Creations mini roses to make them a little plainer.

 I turned the Rue – Watermelon flower inside out and removed the black stamens. This gave me a fuller flower that blended perfectly with the Winters Song blooms.

MHC Products used: Winters Song – Fire Glow & Embers, Glitter Mini Roses – red & white, Mini Dahlia – white, Rue – Watermelon & Small light green leaves.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend.

Joanne

Altered Lantern

Howdy!!

Today I have an off the page project to share with you. I am always on the look out when we go to the markets for different things for me to alter. Quiet a while ago I found this lantern and I knew it was something I would love to do, so I brought it and it has sat on my bookcase ever since….until now.

"The Keys To My Heart" Altered Lantern

 Because it closes completely and has quiet a large door I knew I would be able to work on the inside of it as well as the outside. Inside I placed a small twiddleybitz birdcage which I added vines and flowers to and then inside of the cage are small passport photos of my special little man, he is my baby and will always hold the keys to my heart. I have added keys and a small heart trinket which I found in a cheap jewellery shop  to the locking piece of the lantern,  they were the perfect size for this.

Because of this lantern being dedicated to my little man I wanted to use more neutral tonings. The Winters Song – Log Cabin brown flowers were the perfect starting point. As these have some silvery glittered stamen centres the new Glitter Mini Roses coordinated perfectly with them. I scraped a lot of the gold glitter away from the petals of the roses leaving just a hint and then opened the roses up for a fuller flower. I had some the vines already but added more of the MHC small light green leaves to it to make it a little more bushy.

 I like to add rub ons to my creations when I can, so to do this I simply apply them to clear acetate and cut to the size I require. I have placed my rub on into the middle the vine and have attached with a dob of glue and placed a butterfly over the top so the glue cannot be seen.  Quick and simple yet very affective and also allows my to give my lantern a title and meaning.

Manor House Creations materials used: Glitter Mini Roses – caramel, red & white, Leaves – light green (small) & Winters Song – Log Cabin.

Well sorry for the mammoth blog post, i was trying to capture all of the details.

Thank you for dropping by

Joanne.

Altered Birdcage - "HOME"

Hi everyone!!

Today I wish to share with you my birdcage to showcase some of the gorgeous Manor House Winter Collection flowers. As with all of the flowers from the winter collection which are all beautiful it would be hard to pick favourites but luckily for me I found a few that I just adore and today i will be showing you just what they are.

If you were to walk into any home decor shop at the moment the first thing that you will see would probably be bird cages of many shapes and forms, so today I have created an altered magical birdcage to share with you.

"HOME"

Can you tell yet which flowers I adore? Maybe a another close up will help..

The "WINTERS SONG"  collection of flowers are beautiful.  The frosted edges on them give them so much texture, yet they are soft enough to mould into shape. I have pulled the larger pink Winters Song flowers apart to allow me to have 2 larger and 2 smaller flowers. From the larger parts of the pink flowers, one has been made the bottom of one of the nests while the other has been scrunched to make another flower and placed inside the cage. I scrunched the large white Winters Song flowers to make tighter smaller dimensional flowers to allow more to be placed on the cage.

The "MITTENS" flowers are a smaller version of the bigger Winters Song flowers and have the same textured petals. I removed the centres from the mittens flowers and scrunched to make more dimension flowers and have sprinkled these around the cage.

And then we come to the "PETITE ROSES" which just quietly I love!.  With the petite roses some were left the beautiful soft pink marshmallow while others I misted with Pink Bubb Glimmer mist to co-ordinate with the colouring of the pink Winters Song - Ice Crystal & Embers flowers. Light green small Manor House leaves have been added through out the cage to add some lovely leafy foliage.

The beautiful Hatpin on the top of my cage and beading around my cage were handmade by TLC Papercrafts. A new papercraft store that will be opening online very soon.

MHC Materials Used - MHC Leaves - Light Green - Small, Winters Song - Ice Crystal, Whimsy - Baby Pink, Winters Song - Embers, Mittens & Petite Roses - Marshmallow.

Twiddleybitz materials used - Antique Bird Cage Large - BCLGA001, Bluebird Silhouettes - BIR006, Vintage Keys Inscribed - VTG006, Twiddleybitz Minature Houses - TMH001, Chicken Mesh Wire - WIR002, Detailed Window Frame - FRA007 & Grapevine Border  - BOR026.

So there you have it…..a magical birdhouse packed with Manor House goodness and a place where little birds and fairies call "HOME"

Thanks for dropping by

Joanne