From The Heart!

Hello crafty friends..

Welcome to my page today. We have some lovely showers yesterday as I was working on my altered project. My project is as fresh and colorful as my garden outside with a little vintage twist!

Without much ado, here is my altered bottle...from the heart!

Each of my altered project is close to my heart ,lol...but this one just got the tag!

I had a blast with my mixed supplies  for this project

Step1- Once the bottle was cleaned up I sponged in gesso. I then adhered 2 decoupage tissues, one on each side and waiting for it to dry. As this was drying, i whipped up m y homemade texture paste and added some fine white sand to it to give more texture! 

Here is the outcome. I went about applying the same randomly on the bottle. The idea was to merge the tissue with the texture paste.

Step2- Lest the bottle to dry overnight with the texture paste...I know unlike me but my heat gun conked! I miss him sooo much, lol! Then came the acrylic colors. 

I sponged in a base light blue and then went over with a bright green. Next I made a spray with yellow paint and it was lovely to see it hit the nooks and crannies in the texture! Well this time I used my hair dryer to speed up things!

Step3- Once I was happy with the colors, I went about muting the brightness woth archival brown ink, potting soil! Yes, I love colorful with a vintage twist! The images too were speaking a vintage style and I had to tone down the brightness, lol! I loved how the brown ages the bottle!

Step4- The tag line had to be a special piece! So I went creating a faux weathered wood chip from a chipboard...yes, chipboard. I gessoed and layered colors and distressed them to reveal the age, lol! The stamp was just perfect to fit in there and some metal chain from my stash attached to it...a lovely distressed hanging sign was ready! Love it!

Step5- After a long time, I am actual working on floral embellishments! I made the pink rose with TH tattered florals die and made it the focal pint. On the bottle lid I created a little bed with twigs and coconut coir for the floral garden to rest! The pink rose is surrounded by tiny little flowers to match the flowers on the tissue!

 I got these little bugs and birds from a crafty friend and was more than happy to have them sit pretty here. The bugs ate all over...there is also a little one in conversation with the bird on the hanging sign!

There is so much life right now on this bottle...here is an aerial view of it.

It doesn’t look bad on the other side too, lol!

I just love this little girl...there is something about here wanting to say something “from the heart”! The girl and the pretty cycle make a pretty companion with the lovely outdoor feeling of the birds, bugs, flowers and the vintage garden...what say???

I would love to hear your views on this. It always makes me happy.

I wish to enter this vintage garden in the following challenges...

A Vintage Journey- texture paste

Anything but Cute- Birds and bees

Lessology- neon colors

Frilly and Funkie – Let the words do the talking

Until my next creative journey,

Happy Crafting and recycling.

Cheers.