Xmas Home Decor - Mixed Media Star by Kerstin

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Hello everyone!

I was inspired to create an amazing Christmas gift idea and used as a base a country star mixed media board from Calico Craft Parts.

You can find this pieces in several sizes for big and small handmade gift projects.  I want a project in monochrome style with less color, but a lot of texture.

I worked with white gesso and different textures and structures for the background. In the centre is an awesome snow globe framed by a wreath of snowflakes, only two magical shapes from the latest Christmas collection. 

Have you seen yet?

MDF shapes were supplemented with cutting dies, dried natural materials, a paper rose and ribbon.

 

 some details

 

used MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts

 

Country Star Shape - MDF Mixed Media Board

 300 x 270 mm

Snowflake Wreath

 

 Santa & Reindeer - MDF Snow Globe Wood Shape

The Craft Parts used by Kerstin to create this project are available in a money saving bundle (30% off!) over at the web shop - CLICK HERE to purchase.

  

  

🎄🎇 Merry Christmas and a 

Happy new Year 🎄🎇 

 Kerstin

Fabric Art collage - Peace on Earth Winterdream

  

  Hello everyone!

 

 I felt like working with fabric scraps again and create a art collage

 in winter christmas mood.

 

I sewed an adorable winter cottage from fabric scraps 

and  mixed different fabrics with jeans,

 added a door with a MDF shape. The natural colors of the shapes 

contrast very well with denim.

Several structure in background were made with fabric, 

wallpaper and corrugated cardboard

leftovers.

Baubles got some silver glitter and were backed with linen fabric.

 

 

 

some details

 

used MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts

 

Snowflake Bauble MDF Wood Shape - Style 2

 Christmas Tree MDF Wood Shape Style 2

Trio of Winter Fir Trees

Sheet of Mini MDF Door Wood Shapes

Tall Picket Fence Panel

Snowman in Hat

Snowflake Bauble MDF Wood Shape - Style 3

 

 

 I hope you find inspiration!

 

Wishing you a happy advent season!

Kerstin

Altered Art - Xmas Bottle

 

 Hello everyone!

 

Although Halloween is over,  these are the magical times of the year, 

we start with the preparations for christmas and 

long dark evenings invite again to tell stories.

 

I was inspired to create a new christmas gift project, 

it's a bottle in Altered Art.

 

I worked with Decoupage technique and combined this mixed media piece

 with MDF shapes, outcast's from silicone moulds and a lot of snow texture.

 

used MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts

 

Fleur De Lis Wrought Iron Style Fence Panel

 Sheet of Mini MDF Street Lamps

Holly Leaf & Berry Flourish - MDF Lace Cut Wood Shape

Holly & Berry Border Flourish - MDF Lace Cut Wood Shape

Sheet of Mini MDF Christmas Wood Shapes - Snowflakes 1

 

some details

 

 

I hope you find inspiration!

 Have a good time!

Thanks for stopping by...until next time

 

Kerstin

Gloomy Thoughts - Halloween Decor

 

Welcome creative friends!

 

Today  a new Halloweendecor inspiration. 

 

some close up's

 

used MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts

 

Skeleton MDF Wood Shape Style 3

MDF Letters & Numbers - Blackletter Shadow Font - C

Halloween Multi Frame - Grim Reaper, Coffin & Grave

Owl & Spider - Halloween Wood Corner

 

I hope you find inspiration!

 

Kerstin

 

Beware - Halloween Tag

 

Welcome creative friends!

 

 Today a new inspiration, a mixed media tag where I combined

cutting dies, stamps and MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts.

 

 

some close up's

 

 

 

used MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts

 

MDF and Birch Ply Tag Shapes - Classic Rectangle

 Sheet of Mini Insects - MDF Wood Shapes Style 1

Flying Bat Colony

Fleur De Lis Wrought Iron Style Fence Panel

Cat in a Tree Silhouette

Tilted Gravestone Cross 

 

I hope you find inspiration!

 

Thanks for stopping by...until next time

 

Kerstin

 

Halloween Decor by Kerstin

 

Welcome creative friends!

 

I was inspired to create a Halloween - Welcome door sign in 3D look.

here you can also leave your keys 

for practical reasons :-)

 I worked with a background paper, some cutting dies and some suitable

assescoires.

In the center you see the awesome

 Halloween Multi Frame - Winged Skull & Gravestones

which was created with rusty acrylics and some texture.

In the middle of the frame I attached a small MDF part as a shelf.

 

some close up's

 

 

 

used MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts

 

Rectangle Shape with Notched Corners - MDF & Birch Ply Mixed Media Boards

 

 Halloween Multi Frame - Winged Skull & Gravestones

 Spider Web

Thistle Flower - MDF Wood Shape Style 54

 

I hope you find inspiration!

 

Thanks for stopping by...until next time

 

Kerstin

 

Creepy - Halloween Tag

 

Welcome creative friends!

 

Today a new Halloween tag created with some MDF shapes

 from Calico Craft Parts

and suitable cutting dies and stamps ( Tim Holtz).

 

 

 

I was inspired to split 

 Zombie Horde

and let them dance around the coffin.

 

some close up's

 

used MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts

 

MDF and Birch Ply Tag Shapes - Classic Rectangle

Coffin Silhouette

 Zombie Horde

 Creepy - Halloween MDF Wood Word

I hope you find inspiration!

 

Thanks for stopping by...until next time

 

Kerstin

 

Roll up, roll up. The circus is in town. By Sara Annau.

Hello again. 

I’m back with my second guest designer project and this time I’m bringing you the colour and fun of the circus, all rolled up into miniature form inside this little shrine kit. 

I absolutely love a good circus theme, vintage circus in particular which means I often buy beautiful scrapbook papers relating to the circus. What better way to use some of those papers than to create a little circus that can sit on a shelf. 

When I received my order from Calico craft parts, it included this lovely elephant which I’ve used to add some interest to the back of the project. I’ve gently highlighted it without going too heavy handed so as to keep the detail of the original laser cut showing. 

This project involved an awful lot of fine detail cutting (fussy cutting). A job I usually find relaxing but it may take my fingers a while to recover from this one lol.

However, I think it was worth it as there are so many fun and interesting little details to look at on the finished project. 

I hope this project has given you some ideas of your own and that you might feel inspired to decorate a little shrine in your favourite theme 

Thank you for looking.

Sara. 

Supply list.

Shrine

Elephant

Nostalgia Avenue: by Sara Annau

 

I was delighted to be asked by the design team coordinator, Louise, to be a guest designer for Calico Craft Parts and couldn’t wait to get started. 

The first project I want to share with you is this little street scene I’ve created using four small house shapes and some mini doors and windows (some of which I’ve cut down or added to to suit my needs).

The middle house is made out of two individual houses stuck together and I deliberately chose one with a regular roof and one with a wonky roof to add an interesting feature from the back view (as seen in the next image).

Although the little houses all have no features, Calico Craft Parts sell all kinds of accessories and textures to add some authenticity. From cobble stones to bricks and lots of architectural pieces including windows and doors so you can customise your houses to your own taste.

I’ve gone for a very vintage nostalgic look.

As I had a very specific budget for my design team order, I didn’t get everything I could have used so I’ve used some texture from embossing folders to create some of my brick etc.

I’ve also added a dormer window to the middle house and I’ve included some resin cast drainpipes in a couple of places to add a wee touch of authenticity to the look. 

 Adding all the little details to make four very plain house shapes become this nostalgic little street took some time but it was time spent enjoying myself and letting my imagination run free. 

I’m now looking forward to starting my second design team project which involves a lot of  “fussy cutting” so I’d better get on with it. 

Supply list

Block style house kits: 

short with wonky roof, 

 short ,

 tall, 

tall with wonky roof

Sheet of Mini MDF doors

Sheet of mini MDF windows

Additional supplies that may be of interest for a similar project:

Sheet of pipes and drains etc

Selection of fences

Bricks and Cobbles etc

Dark Forest - Homedecor by Kerstin

 

Welcome creative friends!

 

I found an old home decoration piece on flea market,  

 two mushrooms are made of felt and I liked them.

They inspired me to decorate them with some MDF shapes

 and make them unique.

 

Thought of a moonlight night in the dark forest

 and you can see that I already started with Halloween crafts 😀. 

 

 

 

 

 

 some close up's

 

 

 

used MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts

 

Haunted House on The Hill - MDF Wood Scene

Sheet of Mini Insects - MDF Wood Shapes Style 3

 Flying Bat Colony

Winter Tree Scene MDF Wood Shape - Style 2

Sheet of Mini MDF Window Wood Shapes

 

I hope you find inspiration!

 

Thanks for stopping by...until next time

 

Kerstin