One for my "garden"...

Hello Crafty peeps…

Welcome to my page today. A lovely challenge out at Anything But A Card..”Out and About ”….Celebrate Nature.Create any altered art/mixed media project but no cards please…and you can see some lovely inspirations form then DT’s here.

My recent holiday trip to Europe triggered this project and it was so apt with the theme too! Yet another trash to treasure project…if you have a few empty TP rolls and some old CD’s that you can part with, then you make one too!

I enjoyed the scenic rides around the country side and almost every house had one of these in their garden and how I longed to have one in mine too. Given a choice, I would have just brought back one from one of the gardens but practical issue you see…but never the less, I wasn’t giving up!

I decided to make a miniature of what I wanted so that in the days to come I can have a “real one” if I work hard on that.

For the time being I shall satisfy myself with this…any guesses on what it could be?

Here it is….

A mini log planter garden! Yes, I loved the real ones I saw and knew this had to feature in my garden some day, but this mini sits in my drawing room now!

Here is the process..

I cut the TP’s in various heights with hand to revel a rugged edge. Then I gave it a mild coat of texture paste and then used my acrylics and use the “dry brush technique” to get the wood log. Once the logs were ready, I adhered some white sand to an unused CD and then stuck the logs ion there.

This garden is in full bloom…the foliage, the leaves and plants are all die cuts. I cut a whole bunch of leaves with CLD tropical leaves and used florists wire to make mini plants and shrubs. I have inked the leaves to make it look real and the ferns are  from Tattered lace.

The tiny flowers are from CLD Shasta daisy and also joy crafts, inked and in full bloom in the garden. I filled the logs too with white sand and had the plants and planted in there and they started to bloom too!

With so much of freshness and life, the butterflies had to appear. I stamped some Bo Bunny butterflies on text paper and colored them with DI and had them perched near their comfort zone. I think they look happy there.

I had this lovely quote from Stampendeous and decided to have them nailed on the log! I stamped the quote on canvas cloth, distressed the edges of the canvas with distress tool and made some “faux rusted” nails to fix them on to the log. Of course with the daily watering and the outdoor life, the nails had to rust, lol!
I layered some TP logs as feet for the mini garden!

Shall we take a 360 degree turn to see what’s behind?

Here it is…it must be a dream house, lol! I would love to hang in there all day long, what say?

I made a cute little bird hole in the log, used some coconut coir for nest and made eggs with air dry clay. 

The bird is a resin mold painted with acrylics.

So, that’s my happy little place and some day I hope to make this dream come true. Hope this inspires you to play along.

I would like to have my logs enter the following challenges…

Unruly paperArts- Great outdoors

Our CreativeCorner – What makes you smile

2 Creativechicks – AG no cards

Simon MondayChallenge – For the love of plants

Crafty Gals- Great outdoors

Decorate tocelebrate – AG

Re cycle, Repurpose, Re invent – AG but must re cycle.

Until my next Creative Journey,

Happy Crafting and Re cycling

Cheers.