Journey of a sweet box!

Good morning!

Welcome to my page today!
I am back with an altered project share. The other day a friend dropped by home and handed me a sack full...yes A SACK FULL of abandoned and discarded stuff from her home!

What more do I need...I had no words to thank her and could only think of the possibilities of what could happen to all this trash...even as she was pulling them out of the sack to show me, my mind was already dancing and my fingers itchy!

From that day I have been dishing out one thing at a time and transformed hem and now it was time to alter this cheap plastic frame she had pulled out from a sweet box decoration! 

This had no backing and the frame that was left had cracks too...but I was not giving up!

It gives me immense joy to actually altered such stuff and give them a new life and purpose! A few hours and it became this....

I was deeply influenced and inspired by a few challenges this month and knew exactly what was going to happen this frame, the moment it hit my craft table. It was destined to get transformed from a sweet box decoration to this shabby chic decor piece!

I prepped the frame with a coat of gesso and then worked with some stencils and texture paste. The place was limited, so kept it simple and waited for it to dry.

I then gave the base coat of teal by mixing some blue and green acrylic paints (Folk ART Multi surface paints) and as that dried went to create cracks. 

I used different methods here ... the one step crackle from deco Art, then it was the white glue technique and then finally some dry brushing and sanding too! I rubbed some archival brown to age it too!

Yes, all these brought out the age and weathered look keeping the chic element intact, lol! I covered the top with white paint and the peeps of teal from all the above crackling techniques just about added so much texture to the already existing ornate frame work!

Since it had no backing, I made one from a chipped wooden plank that I had. Created cracks on the exposed part and aged it with burnt amber too.

I took the focal point from the lovely paper pack from Bob and Betty (floral logs). Loved the lavenders, teals and the greens and blooms amidst the cracked and chipped wooden log!

This mage create some hand made blooms(which I had not been making for some time now) using my fav TH tattered florals die.

I kept the colors to lavender and teal using DI peacock feathers and seedless preserves. Some die cut leaves and a cherub using air dry clay were all the embellishments to go on the frame.

I mounted the frame on to the wooden backing and went about placing the flowers.

I had it as a top arrangement on a bed of bandage gauze and some white lace.

I made a little banner with chipboard and gave it the faux wood treatment using dry brushing and stamped in tie quote “ Bloomin’ Lovely” with Archival black and had some color splats and some brads on it.

A little nest using coconut coir and some little blooms in this corner makes it cozy and warm too!

The frame was ready to stand on its own, anywhere now showing off its new life!

I enjoyed making this totally shabby chic style project and making those blooms after long time was just so therapeutic.

Here is an aerial view...

I want to take this to the following challenges which inspired me...

Frilly and Funkie- Floral Infatuation

Anything But Cute- Shabby mood board

Blog Quick Quotes- create flowers

Crafty Boots Ch- Anything But A card

MOO MANIA- Natures beauty

A Vintage Journey- Stencil it

Thank you so much for stopping by today.

Until my next creative journey,

Happy crafting and recycling.

Cheers.