Hello beautiful Crafters,

Hope you are all well in these tough times! 

Today I am sharing with you all a project I made to participate in Finnabair's Trash To Treasure challenge. Fo this I made this mini table planter. 

I used empty paint bottles for my bases and added tons of clay embellishments made from Finnabair's mechanica and cogs and wings mold. I have given it a faux rust effect as well. 

Here are some close-ups - 

Here's the video tutorial for this - 

Hope you liked this project and are ready to use your trash and convert it into treasure. 

Until Next Time

XOXO

JK

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Supply List - 

Mechanica Mold - https://bit.ly/2R1j0Q0

Cogs & Wings Mold - https://bit.ly/3bEydOO

Regal Trimmings Mold - https://bit.ly/2RiTjdU

Elegant Borders Mold - https://bit.ly/3bIQz1e

Brown Rust Wax - NA

Patina Blue Wax - NA

Patina Green Wax - NA

Rusty red Metallic Paint - http://bit.ly/2IKSLuS

Black Gesso - https://bit.ly/2KLUrCZ

Art Stones Mini - http://bit.ly/2IYTqbh

Art Stones Mega - http://bit.ly/2IVlegJ

Art Stones Regular - http://bit.ly/2vfta7

Heavy Body Gel - https://bit.ly/3f0EqHd

*NA - Not Available in India at the Moment

Shabby Chic Mixed Media Jar

Hola beautiful crafters,

I am back with a picture tutorial for you all on how to alter a glass jar in a shabby chic style. This jar can be used as a flower vase, a brush holder, pen holder, possibilities are endless. 

Let's get started!

Step 1 - Cover the jar with heavy gesso white. 

Step 2 - Use apply chalk paints of your choice (I used 2 shades of pink, one dark one light) I went in for a dual tone effect. I also adhered my clay frames before painting. 

Step 3 - Since I wanted to give it an ombré effect, I applied IMMIX metallic paint in the color pinky toes in the centre to merge the shades going from dark to light upwards. 

Step 4 - I took some flowers from my stash and covered them with white gesso.

Step 5 - Once dried, I arranged the flowers and adhered them on the jar on opposite sides. I also added a white lace on the rim of the jar. 

Step 6 - I used a couple of metal butterflies and covered them with white gesso first and then colored them using IMMIX metallic paint holiday gold. 

Step 7 - I dry brushed the IMMIX metallic paint holiday gold on the clay frames as well as on the visible areas of jar over the calk paints. 

Step 8 - I finally adhered the butterflies and added some deco stones around to fill in some empty spaces. 

Hope you liked the project and are inspired to up-cycle one of your own old glass jar as well. Do tag me in your creations inspired by this one, I would love to see them. 

Until next time
XOXO

JK

Altered Bottle

Hola crafty peeps,

With halloween around the corner and fall season upon us, I thought of creating something different. As mixed media is my first love, I have tried to alter a glass bottle in a very rustic pirate kind of style. I have used the beautiful Immix products in my alteration. lets dig in!

For the background, I started by adhering foam sheet cut into small rectangles and squares. I added some flat back pearls to give the effect of nails on the corners of each piece. I used the inner spears of the gear chipboard from expressions craft to adhere on the front of my bottle. Next I used some old ball chain in the smallest size and wrapped around the bottle in a very unmanaged way.

I covered everything on the bottle with IMMIX black heavy gesso. I sprayed some IMMIX sprinkle mist in the color Deep Teal and while it was wet, sprinkled IMMIX fairy dust blue. It gave my bottle a very sparkly blue look. Once dried, I dry brushed IMMIX baby blue chalk paint on the bottle unevenly. this gave the bottle a very nice faded jeans effect. 

Now came the part where I had to give the rust effect. To create my own rust colors, I used acrylic paints and added some sprinkle glitz to it. This can be achieved by adding sprinkle glitz to IMMIX chalk paints as well. Only a pinch of sprinkle glitz is more than enough. I used the colors sienna, red and mustard in acrylic paints. All you have to do is dab the three colors here and there on top of each other. 

Try not to cover the entire bottle, leave some places for the background color to be visible. Once all dried, I topped the nails and my front embellishments with some mettalique wax and sprayed the IMMIX sprinkle mist in the color citrus yellow to highlight my embellishments and some other random areas. 

The IMMIX products are truly amazing and you should really try them in your projects to get a wonderful finish. 

Thanks to these products I was able to achieve this amazing rustic look. 

I hope you liked my alteration and are inspired to make one for yourself too. Do tag me in your creations if you make any on the similar lines. Leave a comment below in case you have any questions. 

Until next time

XOXO

JK

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Products used

IMMIX black gesso
IMMIX chalk paint baby blue
IMMIX magic sparks
IMMIX fairy dust blue
IMMIX sprinkle mist citrus yellow
IMMIX sprinkle mist deep teal
Expressions craft chipboard embellishment gear
Prima marketing rust effect paste set