Tiny Flower Gift Box for a Man

Welcome, dear visitors, friends and followers,

to my third "Technique Time Tuesday" as a proud member of their DT! This time Mynnette shows you how to fold

 "Dahlia Flowers" 

and - you know me - I am not very much of a flower girl, but I really like the design of this one as it is very Origami like and versatile.

I had prepared my flower for quite a long time without knowing exactly with which project to use it, but I chose a very decent (and Steampunk-able - just in case *lol) paper for the flower.



By accident I stumbled upon a small brown cardboard box that was ideal for the job!!! My flower looks like I made it to fit exactly - hah, lucky me! :)

I glued the flower to a piece of card, which I cut exactly to size, distressed at the edges and blended with DIs. The top of the box was first covered on the sides with my favourite washi tape I also used with this project.


To add a rusted look I gave the washi taped sides a treatment with alcohol inks. I really love that look and having that done I decided this to be the main eyecatcher alongside with the flower itself!


So I had to keep the sides of the container rather simple. I used one of the fab Tim Holtz Grunge stamps to add some texture, blended the edges of the box with DI "walnut stain" - voila!

You also have to hop over to Mynnette's blog to see the fabulous flower projects my DT mates made! They have a lot of awesome inspiration on the go in store for you!

Maybe you have also heard the awesome news: Technique Time Tuesday offers a prize to give away each month to our challenge winner! So check it out and let me see your Dahlia flower projects soon!

Thank you very much for stopping by (and for so constantly leaving comments with me - even though I have been a rather bad comments writer for the last weeks - due to health issues. Your comments really mean a lot to me and I will try to do better as soon as I am back to normal! I promise!) 

I enter this project with FSC's "anything goes" challenge.

Hugs,

die amelie

Technique Time Tuesday - "Water Stamping"

Welcome to another Technique Time Tuesday!


"Water Stamping" is this month's awesome technique and I really love this one! I already used it on this tag, but I definitely enjoyed creating the one I show you today (and will do this technique again):

I once again used the awesome "Stempelglede" grunge scroll. This time I used it to create wafts of mist as you usually see them in the early morning (hiking in the mountains).

And this tag was the perfect occasion to inaugurate the lovely Magenta stamp with the bird on the the pine tree branch! (One of the goodies I bought with my Tim Holtz "12 tags of 2013" win :). I even used the stamp to create the ribbon for the tag

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The three mountaineers in the right lower corner are listening to the bird's
song and watching the last visible stars twinkle in the early morning sky. (Have you ever been in the mountains in early morning? I admit: I hate to get up early but THIS is absolutely worth it!!)




If you want to know how Water Stamping works, hop over to Mynnette's challenge blog to see the wonderful makes of the great DT I am in and of course the awesome tutorial Mynnette has prepared for you! As usual she did a great job!!!! 

Hope to see you there!!!
Hugs,

die amelie x

It's Technique Time Tuesday!

Which means I am able to welcome you today being a new DT member over at Technique Time Tuesday - Mynnette's awesome challenge-blog where you get wonderfully detailed technique tutorials and challenging fun every month! Wow! I am so proud to be part of her fab DT!

For this month's challenge I learned to know the "Brick Wall"-technique, which is a really cool effect for cards, tags or other crafting projects.

My take on this technique looks like that:

As you can see I took the technique's name quite literally ;)
AND I had to use my recently bought Tim Holtz stamps on this tag of course (together with a lot of other TH goodies) ;)
These had been on my wish list for quite some time now...

The background for the bricks was made by applying distress inks directly from the pad onto the craft sheet, spraying it with water and dipping and dragging the white card throught the stains on the sheet - thus creating a lot of layers with great texture from the stains.

With that background I used the Kaisercraft "Graffity" texture stamp and did some heat embossing using black embossing powder.

After that I cut the paper to bricks and applied those to the prepared tag. The rest was a lot of stamping, blending, distressing and fiddling until I was content with the result - but first of all: it was great fun! Really love this technique and will use it again! You will find a great tutorial for the brick wall technique over at Mynnette's challenge blog!

I hope you liked what you saw AND I will see you over at Technique Time Tuesday giving this awesome technique a try on your own!
















I am entering SimonSaysStamp's Challenge "Anything Goes"  and The Artistic Stamper's challenge "Tags" with this tag.



Hugs,

die amelie aka Claudia xx