EcoArtCraft: 2016

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Plant Pots Re-Purpose and they are Lovely!

Hello every one! see I am doing my part of the promise I made with you, who told me that I sometimes take to long to post new things. I am posting something in at least 1 of my 4 blog weekly! Weeeeee! post signature

This week my neighbour was dumping some terracotta pots and she ask me if I want some of them; of course I wanted them all! well she gave me some, so I decide to change them and give a them a new life!

First I wash them with a brush and water, let them dry completely and paint them with acrylic and a base of sealant, I use different technique with each of them.

The after picture of the oval phone will post it later, think I took it with my cellphone...maybe?

two of the 3 pots, after wash and dry.

After was clean & dry, I paint with primer or gesso, let it dry.
Then painted it with acrylic blue and white. After dry, put a sealant.

Doesn't it look pretty?

The 3 pots.

This one, I use a red base of acrylic then wash it with other colors.
Left it to dry and applied a crackle medium, let it dry. When dry I make a wash with
green and then seal it so the medium do not go crackling for ever!

This one I also paint with a red base then when dry I apply tissue paper that I had
previously stamp.

Friday, September 23, 2016

Paper Bead Earrings! Wow and a Birthday Card!

Hello everyone! post signature

Yes, I did some paper beads lately! And like it! Is fun and like therapeutic; I really like doing them.

At first had some mishap then I look over how to make them and I tired.

here are my results!

Here are the beads I made, now I want to do more round ones!

Tried to do round ones, but need more practice!

Here is another style, they look quite Salsa!

Here are the 2 styles I made,

I will be making some bracelet and maybe a necklace. For this Blog I wouldn't be doing how to, I am really very inexpert still and they are very good sites in the web, but so you have an idea another recycling use for magazines, newspaper etc.

And for something extra, a Birthday Card! It was made with leftovers, some magazine and old papers, the base is a stepper card that I found in my stash!

The background is a brown paper almost a like the Kraft paper, but not the same.
were the flowers are paste is an old music sheet. To make the stalk we use an flower
leftover paper, the flowers also were cut using the design of the leftover papers.

The middle of the flowers have this glue, then later painted with a marker.
The Happy Birthday was stamp on a piece of magazine, and the flower background
was made cutting pieces from a leftover paper pad and arrage in a rectangular paper
from a voucher. The background (purple) also pieces of leftover paper that we
glue together, so it only could be seen in the borders.

The back of the card we cover with a nice magazine picture so It didn't look blank.

This way you dont throw stuff and you save money! The holographic paper was only a piece leftovers from a A4 and by cuting it to strips, was used for background in both layers of the card.

Hope you all have a nice week!

Ciao!