Decoupage Alters - Peacock in a starry night

Hello friends!
Hope you are having a great day! It is Teacher's day today and I wish all the teachers out there a very happy teachers' day.

I still wish I can go back to school or college and life the simple life with only studies to worry about! Sigh! Gone are those days!!

Coming back here!, today I ought to be sharing some cards for my teachers (which I will post soon) but I am sharing a decoupage upcycle project that I recently did.

I had this amazing papers from Bob and Betty and the designs were just exquisite that I refused using them up for a long time. But then the perfect opportunity came along and I found the perfect object to alter. It was a glass bottle with a  flip stopper cap. Here is how it looks altered from a plain glass bottle version...

Steps to achieve this effect:

• Sand your bottle down with fine grit sand paper so that the Gesso/primer adheres better.
• Apply several coats of white acrylic paint/spray paint/gesso to give a base coat. I had good coverage with Gesso. 
• Next, apply the design you want with a Decoupage Glue. Here I have used ModPodge to adhere the peacock design onto the bottle. 
• Once adhered, make sure there are no air bubbles between the paper and object and give a couple of coats of ModPodge on top of the paper. 
• Paint the rest of the bottle with desired colors. I have gone for a night sky effect with blues and black hues with a starry effect. 
• For added interest, you can add some stamping as well. I have used kaiser-craft script stamp to give a slightly vintage effect.

Let me know what you feel fellas!

Linking this to the

• Path of Positivity Challenge #51: I am surrounding myself with beautiful objects and transforming them to be even more beautiful with art!!!
• 613 Avenue Create: Anything goes
• Crafting By Designs
• making Memories Crafting Challenge Blog
• A Perfect Time To Craft
• Love To Craft challenge blog

Altered Diary :)

Hello, there fellow bloggers!
I have a very different project today to share with you that is not my usual style of jewelry or cardmaking. I had a request from my sister to revamp one of the year diaries that was looking too bland. So here is how it is transformed into!

For the base, I applied texture paste to the front and spine of the diary and let to dry. Meantime I took a pattern paper and tore off the edges and distressed it using brown chalk inks and adhered it to the centre. The rest of the white space was stenciled with MFT stencils and same chalk inks.

For the corners, I have used two doilies distressed with picked raspberry DIs and added two cute doggies from CraftyScrappers stamp set that was sent over oh so sweetly by Konica!.
For the focal panel I die cut a frame and embossed the word DOLLY using Hero Arts Platinum Embossing powder followed by Ranger UTTE.

The spine was then painted in brown acrylics and the back of the diary was kept simple with a vintage pattern paper.

So how do you guys like this!!

Supplies:
1. Ranger UTTE
2. Lawn Fawn Stinkin' Cute stampset
3. Craftyscrappers Kiss your doggie stampset
4. Pattern Paper
5. Distress Inks
6. Chalk Inks
7. Camlin Texture white
8. Doilies
9. Hero Arts Platinum Embossing powder


Entering it to the following

Mudra's Heat Embossing

Craftyscrappers: Try something new : Altered diary

Decoupage trinket box - #ReusewithKrafttime Day 25

Hey there,
A quick post the day. I am trying out decoupage more confidently the past few days. I took a wooden trinket box from Itsy Bits to work on. It is a small one so I was more confident on not ruining it :)
Here it is first!

The tissues are from Itsy Bitsy too. I first applied a coat of Camlin Texture White and adhered the napkins using mod podge. After several coats between drying time. I applied a coat of clear varnish to seal it. 

Let me know how you like it fellas!

I am entering it to:

Fuzzy and Fancy:

 I am having a month long "Use up your stash " challenge running on my blog. Check out the details here.

#ReusewithKrafttime Day 4 - Altered Pocket Book Cover

Hey there!
Posting a day late for Day 4 of #reusewithkrafttime "Use your Stash" challenge due to festivities here. SO there will mostly be a dual post today!!! Yippee....

Today I am sharing an altered cover for a pocket notebook. I so love pocket books and hoard them more than I actually write in them. I have had a couple of notes with multi-colored ruled papers that look really yummy for all the stationery freaks who get what I mean :P

Altered Pocket Book

The cover looked a bit dull, so I went ahead altering it slightly since the working area is quite small. I stenciled some "peacock feathers" DI using MFT paisleys stencils. Then I took an ornate frame chipboard die cut and colored it the same shade. I adhered the piece of stenciled paper and the die cut onto the book cover and added a couple of paper flowers and leaves. Finally penned the word "DREAM" on this. I can actually use this to write down my dreams. Don't you think this is a quick alteration?

What do you think! Do participate and share your wonderful creations too!

Shabby Chic Altered Tin Can

Shabby Chic Altered Tin Can:

Hi all,
I am sharing another uber cute upcycle project today. I really hate throwing away those "of-great-use" tin cans that watches comes in. I usually use it to store some beads/stationery.
I wanted to give it a real nice face lift and make it super cute as a desk accessory.

Altered Shabby Chic style tin can

I recently purchased some amazing pattern paper packs , laces and flowers from charming Neha from CraftBuzz. I wanted to put them to good use in this project. So I first took a pretty in pink sheet from the pack and covered the outside as well the insides.
This pack from Eno Greetings comes with co ordinating die cuts and borders. So I added a scalloped border and lace trims on the top and bottom edges. I lined the inner edge as well.
I dyed some ribbon using picked raspberry Distress inks and added a trim and a bow to the bottom.

Then I created a shabby lace flower with adorned it with bright yellow flowers. It is start of spring afterall. So let it be springy and refreshing!!

The total effect is so shabby - so chic - yet refreshing :)

Check my other shabby chic projects here:

A Shabby Chic Photo Album here.

Inspired by Dr.Sonia's altered projects here

Linking it to Dr. Sonia's 5 million page giveaway

ICR's anything goes with flowers :

Happy crafting guys!