GD: Julie Ann Lee - Renaissance Casket (Part 2)

Hello Julie Ann here, and welcome back to my world within a casket! I do hope you enjoyed the step by step process last night in creating the outside.

Tonight I’m going to show you what I did ‘inside the box’. Inside my project I used Mini 75 and 98, HP1204, Guacamole, Caramel and Hey Pesto Frescos, Green Amber Treasure Gold and some wooden, resin and Shrink Plastic embellishments.

 

First I painted the inside of the box with Guacamole, subtly darkening the edges with touches of Hey Pesto, which is a translucent. I had lots of sheets of white wrapping tissue left over from Christmas, so I stamped this first with the lovely feather from Mini 98, using Black Archival Ink and carrying over the feather theme from the lid of my casket. I then made a mask of my central feather image by stamping it again onto some tissue, cutting this out and placing it over the top of my original stamp and stamping script over it.

Mini 98

After heat-setting this with my heat-gun, I painted the back with Gaucamole and then fixed it to the lid of my box with some Satin Glaze. I pressed down and gave a top coat of the Satin Glaze too. The tissue wrinkled, but this was fine; as I wanted a crinkly effect to suggest layers of old parchment.

When the glaze was completely dry, I touched the surface with light brush-strokes of Green Amber Treasure Gold, just adding little hints of this to the edges of the wooden box too.

I then added some scraps of rolled Smoothy White Stamping Card, which I later, painted in Caramel and Guacamole edged with Florentine and Green Amber Treasure Gold. I placed these in the corners of my lid to look like layers peeling back. In this picture I experimented with positioning the card. In the next one you can see how it looked when painted.

The finishing touch was two wooden butterflies painted with some Antarctic and Inky Pool Frescos and touched with Green Amber Treasure Gold. I had plans for the rest of my casket. I wanted to create a suggestion of a little garden and then, over on the right as you looked at it, a miniature book of tiny tags, fixed to the base of the box. I’ll be showing this in more detail tomorrow, but first I stamped some more tissue with Mini 75  in Black Archival Ink and stuck this to the base.

To suggest a garden within my casket, I took a little Prima topiary tree and painted it with Guacamole, Hey Pesto, Chocolate Pudding and Caramel. I highlighted the different areas with Treasure Gold, Green Amber for the foliage, and Rose Quartz for the pot. A Shrink Plastic butterfly landed on the topmost leaf. I added a little more of the Caramel card script and a blue petal with a pearl dew-drop.

Please stop by tomorrow, if you can, to see the little tag book I created inside my casket and the finishing touches to the outside of the box. Julie Ann x

Leandra says: It's always exciting to open a box to see what is inside, and this is gorgeous, the colour scheme, layers, techniques. It's all perfect. Love what you did with the feather and tissue paper too!

Gillian Says: Adore the contents inside this beautiful casket, all the different elements work so perfectly together.

If you would like to join in this week's challenge and play along with Julie Ann's techniques, then do link up your creativity here, and go in the draw to win some PA stamps of your choice! You need to link your entry by 17:00, Sunday January 19th 2014.