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Relax, Calm, Unwind Tryptych of 3 small MDF panels home decor..

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Relax, Calm, Unwind Tryptych of 3 small MDF panels home decor.. Hi Craft addicts! Well, I have had this MDF panel for ages (to be honest so long that i can't remember who produced it and decided I would experiment with Glitz Craft pastes, a stencil and a sentiment stamp. How I made this project:- I first of all took out the 3 small panels from the main panel and painted the latter with Imagination Crafts Antique Pink paint. I left it to dry once and then gave it another coat. I then used a Black Gesso (there are many Companies who do this such as Pebeo, Pentart etc) to paint the three small panels, giving them a couple of coats to make sure both back and front were covered. Once they were all dry, I then used an anti static pad to clean any dust/moisture from one of them and stamped the Relax, Calm, Unwind sentiment on to it in the centre using Versamark sticky ink - I then added some white Embossing powder and heat set it. I took the two remaining panels and pla...

Japanese lady on large trellis frame - hand coloured home decor piece

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Japanese lady on large trellis frame - hand coloured  home decor piece Hi Craft addicts! I had created this background some time ago and thought it would go well with this Japanese Lady die cut from Tattered Lace.... How I made this project:- I used 3 different colours of Cosmic Shimmer's Opal Polishes - Parakeet Blue, Blushed Peach and Pink Thistle to cover both parts of this large (A5 approx) Trellis Frame that Dreamees sell. I used my fingers to blend some of the colours in and then added extra to give it some texture and left it to dry. I cut out the Japanese Geisha lady die (from Tattered Lace) in some white card - I did wonder if I would colour it in at all but decided against it as I thought it would stand out more if plain. I masked off all sides of a cream piece of card and coloured it in using Pinks, Yellow and Green Tim Holtz Distress Crayons and blended them in with a waterbrush. I then added some Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders (Candy Pink, Fireworks Bu...