Sunday, 12 July 2015

A tisket a tasket, a little Alice basket: By zuzu

*Edited to add. I didnt save and schedule this properly and it should have gone up yesterday! Ooops*

Hi everyone.

today I am using one of the lovely wee "Trug kits". its slightly bigger than I imagined and I will actually be able to keep stuff in it. I might put my cottonwool balls in it or something... anyhoo I digress.


I assembled the basket and painted it with decoart acrylics. I then applied book print tissue paper and a stamped image of Alice using decoart decoupage glue.

Then I built up a 3D look with Calico Craft Parts.

I gave it all an aged look with quinacridone gold media paint and then a coat of media Crackle glaze.
when the crackle glaze had dried i added more Quin' gold to sink in to the cracks and wiped off the rest. you can see the crackle in the close ups...





Calico Craft Parts Used:

Trug Kit
Mini Sugar Maple leaf twig
Mushrooms and Fungi Set 7
Wild flower in grass shape
Holly leaf and Berry corner shape.
Mini Butterflies

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5 comments:

  1. whyducks12 July 2015 at 13:17

    Great work.

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  2. Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans12 July 2015 at 15:03

    Lovely piece Louise. I love Alice. The ivy and crackle looks gorgeous and I love the colours too. Tracy x

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  3. Unknown12 July 2015 at 19:39

    Great colour scheme! This sounds like a good project. I need to buy that cute trug kit and use up some of paper stash.

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  4. Astrid Maclean14 July 2015 at 21:53

    The basket looks fantastic and I just love how you layered and altered the craft parts on this one! I absolutely love the title of your post too, great thinking!! :o)

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  5. Words and Pictures19 July 2015 at 14:33

    Glorious! Love the weathered text in the background and like Astrid I love how you've layered up the craft parts. Brilliant celebration of Alice!
    Alison xx

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