Christmas Wreath with a Twist

I picked up the mdf ring and Merry Christmas sign at Donny Dome in October.  

I covered the ring with t-shirt fabric soaked in bronze Powertex and once dry started to place some embellishments.

I used gesso on the words.

I decided to use a mix of natural elements and resin shapes.

The words looked too plain so I added some more resins.

I waxed the ring with gold, waxed the resin pieces in silver and added some touches of red.

Added 3 trees along the bottom.

Close up of the words.

Close up of the trees.

Close up of the resin and woodland pieces.

More close ups.

And the opposite side of the wreath.

Loving the resin elements.

This is for sale in my online shop if you are interested

 https://aviarto.com/christmas-wreath-15505

along with lots of other items.

Slate Dragon Plaque

 

I turned the above Merry Christmas slate plaque into the background as seen below using a stencil, modelling paste and acrylic paints.

Then I started to lay out some resin pieces, I was trying to create a mystical vibe.

Chose corresponding metallic pigments and paints to colour the resin and metal pieces with.

And here it is finished, looking good hanging on the wall.

Close up of the bottom right corner.

Close up of the bottom left side.

Close up of the dragon.

Close up of the middle.

This is for sale on my Website and FB Page.

Spooky Junk Journal

 

I made a junk journal type book for a friend out of recycled used envelopes.

These are the first couple of pages.

I tried to keep it fairly light hearted and not as gruesome as it could have been. 

Some of the pages are really plain, but room has been left for journaling.

I incorporates some die cuts and some resin mould pieces.

I didn't want to make it too bulky as I didn't put a closure on it.

These two pages house some tags.

And this is the right page with the tags removed.

These are the middle pages.

The envelope pocket flips out on the right page.

And there are 3 tags / journaling cards in the pocket.

These are my favourite two pages.

This is a double spread page with a piece of white netting between the pages.

The netting is covering the left page in this photo, it's very subtle, but a nice effect.

Again very plain pages, but writing space if needed.

Nearly there.

The back inside cover has a pouch with a tag in it.

There is another pouch on the back of the above tag which houses a journaling card.

And finally, this is the back cover.

This is the removable tassel that is attached to the spine with a safety pin.

I hope she likes it as this was part of a 9 day course I am enrolled on with Anna aka Finnabair.

Flower Tag

I covered a large mdf tag with a mix of cotton scrim and black powertex, I then powertexed a piece of fabric mesh over the top of it.  Cut a couple of polystyrene balls in half and added some rusty hardware.

Then I used green pigments and coloured the background. I used violet and red interference pigments on the balls.

I added gilding paste to the hardware and left it to dry for about an hour.

I placed purple metallic foil over the gilding paste and then added rusty nails to the balls.

Added a piece of ribbon and went outside and hung it from a tree to take some photos.

It's quite 3 dimensional.

I love the colours.

And finally a close up.

Vintage Tags

 

I made some more tags today but with a vintage theme.

Some close ups of the tags.

Used some mini clusters which I'd previously made.