My Speaking Wall...

Hello Crafters…

New month welcomes us and am happy to welcome my old and new crafty friends and thank you too for stopping by.

Last stages of summer in many places and before it fades away, I have this project to share with you. My childhood memories about “summer” is about vacationing at my aunt’s place. We are more than dozen kids(cousins) who would meet up annually and play like crazy! My aunt’s backyard had lots of flowering plants and fruits too. The main being guava and gooseberry. Climbing these tress was the favorite pastime and except for lunch and dinner, we literally would live on top of the trees!

In memory of those good times spent…I made this “speaking wall” project. Have been working with cubes and cuboids lately…and this one too is another experiment with an empty liquor carton! I am actually discovering spaces from different sides of the box now…you will see soon!

I took my entire paper scraps and went about sticking pieces of it to the box and my! a whole of my scrap got over! Then after gessoing it, I made the home made texture paste in brick color and went about constructing wall, brick to brick using TCW stencil. I also gave some cemented texture in places. Once the texture dried, I applied fired brick, peeled paint, walnut stain and black soot to the bricks randomly  and my weathered brick wall was ready to speak!

Yes! My wall speaks from all sides and 360 degrees…have a look!

Front panel: I fussy cut images of fruits from the DCWV Botanical stack , adhered it to another plain PP which has the scripted bg and then inked the edges with walnut stain to age it up . I took relevant chit chat stickers and stuck it to each tile. The tile is sandwiched between acetate sheets. I gathered some rounded twigs from the garden and have done the faux bamboo framing!!!

Before adhering the frame to the wall, I have layered come coconut coir behind each tile, to give some natural feel. I have been saving so much and these came in handy for this project, you can also make lovely bird’s nest with it!

Back panel: I took out a lengthy floral image from the same stack and did the faux framing again…only this time, I adhered it with dimensional foam tapes so that there is a box created to hold some tags and loose paper. Some TH chit chat stickers speak here too.

Side panels: I have stamped these lovely quotes from Stampendous and distressed the edges and faux framed them too!

And now for the…

Top panel…The twist to the wall comes with the top panel here, where I have created 3 slots  and inserted empty tissue rolls and voila! A lovely country wall pen holder is ready!

Well it can hold just about anything on your table. I have laid a bed of coconut coir and some ready foliage and stuck some little blooms using TH tattered florals. Do you also see some oranges on top there?

Yummy, isn’t it…

Bottom panel: Has painted bottle caps on which the wall proudly stands on!!!

That’s pretty much what my walls have to say! You must have heard the famous saying “Walls have ears” but my garden wall here, has lots to say! Did you like it??? Well, my husband wants one for his desk without the roof garden!

This is going out to a crafty friend of mine, who had her birthday last week. I am hoping she will enjoy having this on her craft table and cherish my childhood memory!

Am linking this to…

Frilly and Funkie – Summer garden

Anything But A Card _my five F’s here- flowers, fruits, foliage, frame and feet!

The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge _ Almost all the colors from your palette except pink!

Artistic Inspiration - Anything goes/Memories

Make My Monday _ Indian Summer

Imagination Crafts Challenge - Anything goes

Craft My Life - Anything goes
Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Anything goes
Altered Eclectics - Anything goes
We Love Vintage Challenge Blog - say it with flowers

Until then,

Happy crafting and Re cycling.

Hugs.