PHOTO BOX INSPIRED BY MISS JULIE ANN, FOR PAPERARTSY......

Hello my Lovelies, warning, warning, warning, Will Robinson, this is PHOTO HEAVY. Sorry I did a lot of stuff on it, it took me 2 weeks to create. If you want to stay around you had better grab a large cuppa. I'll try to keep the nattering to a minimum, hahaha, wish me luck with that ^-^.....

When Miss Julie Ann posted the Gift of Reading here, on Oct. 9th,  I was blown away,if you haven't seen it, it is well worth the look. I have been desperately, madly creating this gift box. I looooved creating it, it brought me such joy, thanks so much Cuz, I truly fell in love with yours, once I saw it, I just knew I had to make something..

     This is the picture frame I'm making for my friend Jan, I'll be decorating the frame and making fairy pics to match her bathroom.

It's a little snug, might have to wrap it in tissue when I finish it. It is her BD as well in Dec, so this will be her 2 gifts all taken care of....

                    These photos I took  before I added the Fairy's..

         
  I tried to follow most of the techniques Julie Ann used, I'll try to remember everything I did :O).
I started by cut it out of a huge piece of cardboard,( I have a huge stock of these ) using the picture for the template and I reeeeeally wished I had a larger area to work on, I kept having to fold the side up, fold the sides up, with all the different layers, crazy..
I brayered  some fresco paints, London bus, beach hut, hey pesto and zesty zing to color the background.
Stamped the french script in white paint, stamped  the funny green lines, they are a with stamp I made agggges ago out of clay, it didn't stamp fully, it is a bamboo tree, but I was embracing the mistakes :)...

I stamped more script  from a Paper artsy stamp in Tim's gathered twig, I made the circles with a pill bottle top and white paint, I made a puddle of Inca Gold, for the gold circles..
 I stamped Lady bugs in all the circles and tiny lady bugs all over, it made the large Lady bugs all different colors, love how they turned out....

                               

I double bumped,  a Paperartsy leaf stamp in Fresco's, London bus and hey pesto. sorry the photo is upside down. I learned a few lessons while creating this, I prefer it with a stamp that is plain, it might be just me but it looks messy with the swirls in the stamp, normally I love this stamp.. 

You can faintly see a window cut out, they open, I put masking tape on the window, then was going to take it off leaving the shutters plain. I like it so much I decided to leave it on...

 I stamped 8 different fairy stamps on tissue, added 4 to the inside , 4 on the outside...

 I painted the parts white, I was going to color, on the back, then colored the front with fresco paints, lesson 2, I should have added water to the paint to make it more transparent, I added a golden glow around them with Inca gold and a tiny bit of water.

 I love how it all came together once I added the glowing fairies..

These are photos before I added the vines,faeries and embellishments...

 The out side I gessoed, then tried to create 3 walls that looked like they were falling apart and had also suffered a fire.....
I used a stone wall stencil with Golden's paste, this is the outer layer it was a beautiful stone wall a one time..
Painted the whole thing with white paint, gesso and a tiny bit of black water color paint from a tube to give it a greyish finish..
I stenciled a tile pattern on the back, a brick pattern on the front. this is all one stencil from a children's craft set.
 I used Tim's rusty hinge for the brick . Rusty hinge and mowed lawn for the tile pattern, that's what it looks like to me, might be a checker board pattern..

 I tore some of the top layer of the cardboard, then used a lighter to burn it away, this will become the bottom layer, after the fire..

I wanted to create a window, I used the Gothic window Julie Ann sent me as a template, I cut off the top layer of the cardboard leaving the corrugated on to create the shutters, I adore Gothic windows...

This is how it looks closed

I sprayed it with some clear lacquer to seal the ink.. 

Photos of it after embellishing it...

I stenciled some vines with fresco paint, on all three sides

I made a door out of cardboard, peeling the top layer off then burning it again, then gessoed it a couple of times. I painted some pieces of broken belt and bracelet, for the handle, hinges and lion knocker, painted it with rusty hinge paint, then poured some real rust powder on it, let it dry, love the rusty look it gave them...

I used a broken piece of earring for the emblem over the door, I brightened it with Inca Gold...
I painted these fairies with cheap water color paint.
 Lesson 3, I used way too much sparkle with modge poge, distress clear rock candy and ultra fine glitter. I was trying to make it look like fairy dust, had I added some water to it, it would have dispersed it better, and you could have see the image better..

 I made a frame for the window out of funky foam, gessoed it 3 time's and used a heat gun to dry it, till it created bubbles..

I made some washi tape to hold the frame of the box together, with medical tape, colored it with rusty hinge and Forrest moss paints.
I stamped some vines with rusty hinge and mowed lawn ink then stamped the fairy shoe and magical symbol in black momento ink.

All done, if your still here God bless you, this was so long sorry..

 I am entering this in the October Challenge at Paperartys

here, Miss Julie Ann inspired me to create something to enter and boy did I have some BIG FUN making it, thanks to you all...

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, ((( BIG HUGS )))...

                                           NAMASTE!!!!