Monday 30 May 2011

Box with Zip Flower and Card with Shrink Plastic for Lynne's birthday

This is another box I made, for a friend's birthday today. I used Eco Green Paint and an Eco Green butterfly stamp, and made one of my zip flowers which I made last year, just for a touch of quirkyness.

This was the birthday card, using the Think and Wonder stamps from the Artistic Outpost again, and the new postcard stamp CI 302 from Crafty Individuals, with the Pink Paisley papers and embellishments called Butterfly Garden from Happy Daze. I decoupaged the flowers on the postcard and added glossy accents. I made a shrink plastic piece from the little girl from the Think and Wonder plate and just wanted to mention that I used a great technique from Lin Brown's blog, using the wonderful new Paper Artsy Fresco Finish Paints which are so versatile. I spread a little Snowflake paint on both sides of the shrink plastic using Cut N Dry foam and let it dry, then stamped the image, shrank it, then coloured it with Distress Inks. I would really recommend this technique as it makes shrink plastic so much easier to colour and to work with. I had thought in the past that if you used acrylic paint on shrink plastic that it would shrivel unattractively because it doesn't shrink with the plastic, but certainly with these particular paints it works perfectly. And I am a big shrink plastic fan ......!


14 comments:

  1. Lucy, you already know how I feel about those exquisite boxes you create. Lynne will just so adore her beautiful box and card. Love all your amazing details! Have a wonderful day!

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  2. What a beautiful gift. The box and card are lovely. I do have a question. What are zip flowers?

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  3. Beautiful box and I love the way the shrink plastic worked out on the card!

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  4. Gorgeous I am sure she will love it!

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  5. WOW!!!! What gorgeous pieces. So beautiful in every way. :) A fabulous gift.

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  6. Hi - this is a beautiful box. Can you tell me what you use for texturing - I have used several different things, and I am struggling to get a finish that I like.
    Hugs
    Valxx

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  7. Gorgeous! I bet Lynne loved these as much as I loved mine!
    Went to sleep this afternoon! Lol! Hope to chat again soon! xx

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  8. Gorgeous creations as always!! Love the box - beautiful adornments and love the zip flowers - never tired that but have seen it on projects before!

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  9. Another beautiful box Lucy, I'm sure Lynne loved it. The card is beautiful as well, lovely colours.
    xxx Hazel.

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  10. Loving that box - very unusual.

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  11. Oh what a scrummy box! Love the card too.
    Jack xx

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  12. wow, these are super-fabulous! beautifully done Lucy! xo

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  13. You have done a great job i appreciate your hard work i like it...
    Plastic Card
    Plastic card printing

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