Inspiration by Gwyneth - August 2016 - Summer Sunset

Good Morning Everybody!

Hi everybody.

The new collection, launched in the Dragons Lair Designs online store on the 1st August, is called "Summer Sunset", and all the DLD Inspiration Blog DT members have been given the collection to work with for their Inspiration posts this month - with many choosing to volunteer to make extra creations - which does show that we really like working with it.

For the launch I made a digital scrapbook layout showing a photo I'd taken of a flower some years ago.  Having gone digital that time I decided to go into mixed media for this inspiration and decorate a box.

This is what I started with -

These are what I used:

Stamping Dragon Designs Item:

Items from the "Summer Sunset" collection available - here - in the store.

Consumables:
250gsm Super Smooth A4 white cardstock; Tonic Funky Glue; Pinflair Glue Gel; Three colours of Cosmic Shimmer Paint

Equipment:

Scissors; My Craft Studio Elite Software; Baby Blue Die Cutting Machine; Tonic Butterfly Die
Tattered Lace Flower Die; Non-stick Craft Sheet; Paint Brush; Pallette; Sponge; Pokey Tool

Method:

I printed out one of the background sheets from the collection, that had a circular centre panel, a couple of times.  I then took a leaf into My Craft Studio, re-sized it and copied it several times over the working area.  I also added a heart from the digital collection.  I then printed this sheet of elements out as well.

 

As I was using paint I had to de-camp from bed to work on the kitchen table, so tidied a corner and laid down my Craft Sheet to work on.

 

This is what it looked like after I'd finished and was ready to put everything away (I had put the die-cutting machine away before painting as knowing me I'd have got the paint over that as well!)

The first thing I did was cut out the circular panel from one of the backgrounds I'd printed, leaving a border around the circle to frame it.

 

I then took some of the background, cutting panels to the same size as the plate of the die-cutting machine, and cut out three spiral flowers.  I decided to have a splash of contrast so cut the butterfly out of white cardstock.

 

I turned over the outside edge of each of the flower spirals before strating to turn them into flowers so that the "petals" would turn outwards and not show so much white edge in the finished flowers.  After twisting into the flowers I glued the backs in place with Funky Glue and put to one side to dry.

 

I cut out some leaves and the heart from the element sheet.

 

I painted the inside of the box and lid using the gold coloured paint, and when dry stuck the heart in the bottom.

For the outside of the box base and lid I used a sponge, rather than a brush, to add the paint, as I wanted a bit of a textured look. I "pounced" the sponge rather than wiping the paint on.

 

I started with the bronze colour paint all over.  I then used a small amount of gold on my sponge - dabbing it off so that it was practically dry before dabbing the gold at random over the box base and top of the lid.  I finished off by doing the same with the dark brown colour.  This gives the box a bit of a vintage look.

 

 

 Once the paint was dry I used the Pinflair Glue Gel to attach firstly the circular panel and then the flowers.  I used a bit of the funky glue under the centre to attach the butterfly.

 

 And this is what the box looks like from the top.

 

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And that is it from me for today.
Please keep coming back regularly to look at new posts as, over the next few weeks, you'll find various "Inspiration by ..." posts appear on this "Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog", as well as other posts by different Design Team members.  I'll be back with more posts over the coming months as well, so keep an eye out for those.

Till next time - Have Fun Crafting!

Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog Design Team Leader

(And if you are wondering "who's Gwyneth?" - then you'll find an "About Me and My Blog!" piece on my blog.)

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