France Papillon Project #3 Happy Ending ....

"I feel so sad showing you this one, as it is one of my last offering as PaperArtsy Guest Designer".

So for this project, I started with a Wooden Icon Triple, which I took apart and painted with  Honey Dew Fresco Paint using a paint brush.

On one side of the ‘doors’ I stamped with a BG2 stamp using Embossing Ink, then heat embossed it with clear UTEE (you could do the same with clear embossing powder though). 

On the other side, I applied CrackleGlaze with a palet knife. I did the same on the wooden center piece, a part was embossed, a part was covered in Crackle Glaze.

Using a piece of Cut N Dry, I applied a layer of Holly Fresco Paint on all sides of the wood.

To produce a faux batique effect, I melted the clear UTEE away by ironing it with tissue paper between the wood and the iron. When melted by the heat of the iron, the UTEE gets absorbed by the tissue paper. If your tissue paper is sticking to the surface, just leave the iron on it for a couple of second to remelt the UTEE or embossing powder.

Taking away the UTEE revealed the clear paint underneath the Green Holly Fresco! The sides that had Crackle Glaze… crackled just nicely. I ran a sanding grip over the wood to distress it a bit more.

 

I used the two ‘doors’ as covers for a Coptic binded book. The pages are made of watercolor paper. To keep the book closed, I used printed ribbon.

I randomly stamped words from the ESN08 stamp set with coffee Archival Ink on the central part of the icon. 

 

To embellish it, I made a mini tiny heart out of cold porcelain, I painted using BloodOrange and Claret . I attached the heart to a Tim Holtz Mini Gear with a piece of wire. The clock is a real vintage one. The metal disk was home rusted in vinegar and salt baths and wrapped with iron wire.

I stamped ‘Happy Ending’ from the ESN08 set on Smoothy White Stamping Card using Black Archival Ink and added some background stamping with the BG2stamp in Sepia Archival Ink. I also colourized the paper with Vintage Photo Distres Ink.

I stamped the moth from the HP1004EZ stamp twice on Smoothy White Stamping Card with Black Archival Ink. I trimmed one to glue on top of the other to add dimension to it.

 I then coloured the Smoothy White Stamping Card with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and randomly stamped with the Mini 30 using Sepia Archival Ink.

Mini 30

I attached the book to the main part with a piece of chain from the same vintage clock.

And like the clock says, this is a happy ending. This guest designing was a wonderful adventure, with lots of new discoveries, growing and fun.

 A huge thank you to Leandra and Gillian, you ladies rock! I’m proud to have been a member of the PaperArtsy family!

Thank you all PaperArtsy peeps for your wonderful support, sweet comments and fun partaking in the challenges! Wishing you all loads of PaperArtsy fun, now and in the future!

Leandra Says: I adore your "thinking outside the box" on your projects France, the use of the Wood Icon is FAB! Great use of techniques, love the overall distressed/aged look to tonight's project. It has been a real pleasure having you share your creativity with us all over the last four months. Thank You x

Gillian Says: Genius way to use the Wooden Icon Triple France, love the contrast of colours. This is a beautiful project, thank you for sharing your creativity over the last four months. x