Scene of a Happy Accident

Here's the last project that I submitted to the Graphic45 Final auditions:

And I had a real blast with this one, because of a fun happy accident and discovery along the way.
Those of you who like Graphic45 will recognise that this is made from their Metal Film Canister with album:

 

I glued an ornate chipboard piece in the centre and then did some messing around with paints and stuff.  The happy accident is how I managed to get the silver metal cover to look like brown mahogany wood.  Apparently black paint + dark red Maya Mist + gold Glimmer mist makes for a nice combination!  And apparently my ugly brush strokes in the black paint end up looking like woodgrain...oh happy accident, how I have missed you! :)

The canister and the album inside were finished off with Graphic45's Kraft Reflections collection.

Supplies:

Graphic45 Kraft Reflections 12x12 Paper Pads 

Graphic45 Metal Film Canister w/Album

Graphic45 Metal Button Staples

Graphic45 Metal Flower Staples

Lettering: Basic Grey

Bling: Mark Richards

Small is Beautiful

Hey ho!

As promised, here's another Graphic45 project to show you!  Its a small little handbound book done with papers from the Graphic45 Le Romantique collection ( I used the 8X8" stack of papers and sliced all the papers in half to get a little 4X4" book)

Its got canvas covers and a 'crackled' picture on the front which I really like. The book is really little but actually took me quite a bit of time to do 'cos of all the stitching and beading on the spine:

 

 I also got it into my head to white wash and emboss gold edges on ALL the pages (once you do one its too late to turn back)....so, this little book was an exercise in perseverance! haha.

Supplies:

Le Romantique 8X8" pattern paper stack

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Sticky Back Canvas (white)

Sticker - 7 gypsies

White acrylic paint and gold embossing powder

My First Graphic45 DT post

I have been dyyyyying to show you this since I sent it in quite some time ago, but I thought I'd wait till it got featured on the G45 blog. (some of you might have been wondering what happened since the DT announcement - like did they revoke her DTship or something? why isn't she posting any G45 projects?....hahaha)

So, right now the lovely ladies at Graphic45 have been featuring the new 2012 design team over the past few days and today its my turn to get featured along with Betto (love his name!).   And now I can show you my favourite among the projects I submitted for the final audition.  (I'll show you the other projects I submitted over the next few posts - wanna try to keep the posts short)

"My Closet Space"

 The 'closet' opens up:

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to reveal suitcases:

 clothes:

a mirror and other usual closet-y things:

All made mostly from the Graphic45 chipboard tags and papers.  Almost all the little objects have journaling mini books or tags hidden inside them:

 and you can tell I had a super fun time making this - it was like playing dollhouses.

Supplies List (Graphic45):

5x8 Kraftboard Altered Art Box w/Album

Papers - Graphic45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe Collection 

(Olde Curiosity Shoppe, Butterfly Specifics, Race for Time, Bazaar of Wonders, Exquisite Motif, Counting Down)

Chipboard - Olde Curiosity Shoppe Chipboard Die-cuts 1  

Metal Button Staples

Die cut alphabet 2 - I used what was leftover from using the circle alphabets to make the 'grille' on the front window.

Other Supplies:

Bazzill Kraft cardstock

Tim Holtz Idea-ology hanger clips

Tim Holtz Idea-ology curio knobs

Tim Holtz Idea-ology swivel clasps

Prima vintage metal buttons Romantique

Maya Road small round journey tin

Maya Road velvet resin blossoms cream

Ribbons: Maya road / unknown

Mark Richards Bling

October Afternoon Mini Market stickers (black and cream)

Metal charms (glass bottle, lamp, mini camera): unknown

Black acrylic Paint

More Graphi45 goodness coming up in the next post! :)

Inspired by Wedgewood China

Can you tell that this quick and simple little book

was inspired by this? (ok, maybe just the colour scheme)

The cover is made from brown envelopes lined with sticky back canvas. And closes with a ribbon wrap.

I think the papers from majadesign's Life in the Country collection are quite 'wedgewood' don't you think?

And incidentally, over at scrapforhelp, the challenge for May is to use recycled envelopes, so this might be a fun idea to try. :)

Happy Sunday all!