Crafty Individuals Bird Cage Frame

Crafty Individuals now have a Blog! Isn't that great news! I have made this little papier mache frame using one of their new collage stamps, CI301. I coloured the stamped image with Pro Markers and added glossy accents to the butterflies. I made silicone moulds from some of the jewellery I bought in Primark the other day - the bird from the ring, some flowers, and the butterfly. For the birdcage I used the Tim Holtz Alterations Bird Cage die on shrink plastic, which I have done quite a few times before, but this time I used the shrunk piece to make a silicone mould, then made it up with friendly plastic. That way you can have whatever finish you like on the piece. I used metallic rub ons on the flowers and birdcage, and mica powders on the bird and the butterfly.


The stamped image was exactly the right size for the centre of the papier mache frame. I painted it with acrylic paint and then added some crackle paint, and then different shades of Silkies. I stuck some torn pieces of Angelina film to the wet paint and heat gunned it. Then I splodged some glossy accents in places and sprinkled on some mother of pearl flakes, and some Deko Ice which I coloured with alcohol ink, to match the project. I added a glass nugget to the centre of one of the flowers, then superglued all the pieces in place, including a piece of brass chain for the bird cage.

More Imagination Crafts Cards with Silkies and Stencils

Using Silkies through Small Kasbah and Bird Stencil, and Shrink Plastic Bird Cage

Easel Card made with Onion Shape to echo Moroccan style of Small Kasbah Stencil, smaller ones are shrink plastic, again with the Silkies

Silkies Through Bird Stencil. Bird captured behind Grungepaper Bird Cage Die Cut, painted with Silkies

Here are some more of the cards I made using Imagination Crafts Silkies and Stencils. Silkies 'take' really well on grunge and shrink plastic. I only needed one coat on the grunge and it dried almost instantly.

Mosaic Card Using Silkies and Small Kasbah Template

This is another of the cards I made for Imagination Crafts, again using the Small Kasbah stencil, and sponging through different shades of Silkies.

Trellis Card with Silkies

I recently made a batch of cards for a lovely lady called Sue, from Imagination Crafts, the company who make Silkies which are my new favourite product! The company specialize in mica based products which have a high degree of shimmer, but what sets the Silkies apart from other similar products I have used before is that they have very good coverage, so you can use them on grunge (covering that awful grey!), shrink plastic, and other difficult surfaces. They come in little nail polish style bottles with a brush, but you can sponge or brayer them on.


This isn't the card I intended to show you but I have been having massive problems with Blogger for several days, and have literally spent the whole day today trying to sort it out, as the kind people trying to help me can testify. If I can upload the other cards I will. For this card I used the Small Kasbah stencil from Imagination Crafts. The other cards I made used it in a Moroccan Screen style, but for this card I wanted it to look like a garden trellis with a plant growing up it, so I sponged Paris Trunk inks in Sprig and Sepia through the stencil. I stamped the fuchsia twice on white card and decoupaged it, curving the petals slightly. The main bloom has been coloured with Silkies to make it stand out, so you can see how opaque the coverage is over the veins, and the centre filled with Deko Ice from the Altered Element, which I coloured with alcohol ink. The others were painted with the pearly paint palette, also from Imagination Crafts.

Gingersnap Creations Mad Hatter's Tea Party Bloghop

Gingersnap Creations are having a Mad Hatter's Tea Party bloghop today. Here is my invitation to you, to my tea party!

I used Silkies from Imagination Crafts for the background of the actual invitation, with the Crafty Individuals invitation to a tea party stamp. The main background is Kaleidacolor Caribbean Sea, brayered on. I got my Kaleidacolors and my brayer from Imagination Crafts. The Hatter is from the Oxford Impressions set, and the tea cup has been stamped on Fimo and baked.

Collage Woman Canvas Board Hanging

I made this canvas board wall hanging using the Collage Woman set from the Artistic Stamper, one of my all-time favourites. I coloured the background with Silkies, which were my new discovery at the Biggin Hill show last week, made by Imagination Crafts. I stamped the images and adhered the tissue to the canvas and added a few fibres, and some tags from the Scrabble and Tags set, also from the Artistic Stamper. I recently bought a necklace from Primark to take apart which my forum friend, Minxy, had mentioned on her blog. I took the pieces apart and made moulds of them with Mould N Pour, also from the Artistic Stamper, and then made the flowers up with friendly plastic. I then adhered them by softening the back a little with the heat gun and pressing them in position.