Hi Everyone
Well it’s been a while since I’ve been to Blog land but I wanted to share a little project with you.
I had a vase that a friend made but it didn’t go with our furnishings anymore so I decided to give it a mixed media makeover. Sweet Poppy Stencils are renowned for the quality and design of their stainless steel stencils but they offer so much more for crafter's and I have used a variety of their products on this project.
First I painted the vase in black gesso, then I painted it with Cracking Paint as I wanted to give it a bit of a distressed look.
There’s a great Sweet Poppy’ tutorial on YouTube.
I’d decided that I wanted to decorate the vase in pastel colours so Sweet Poppy's Shimmer & Sheen Lustre Paints were the ideal choice to use from my crafty stash. I picked Persian Blue, Peppermint and Lilac Dreams.
This is the vase ready for stage 2.
Over the years I’ve built up quite a stash of metal, lace and paper flowers and other embellishments which I was going to use on the vase, I prepared some of these first by painting them with black gesso.
Once I'd stuck everything to the vase there were a few gaps that I filled in using Sweet Poppy Stencils Cement Balls Small and Extra Fine stuck down with Translucent Stencil Dimensions. The next stage was to paint the embellishments and add highlights.
For the painting I used all of the paints from the Complete Collection of Shimmer & Sheen Lustre Paints.
Finally, I made a couple of highlights with some gilding wax from my stash.
Here's the finished vase and I have to say I'm really pleased with how it turned out.
A view of the left hand side.
A view of the right hand side.
The bottom of the vase.
A couple of close up photos of the embellishments.
I hope you like it and that my step by step may give some inspiration on how you can use some of Sweet Poppy Stencils products.
Thanks for dropping by and feel free to leave me a comment.
Crafty hugs
Julie xxx (Amber Rose Crafts)
