Wood Resin Trays: Take 1!!!

So...awhile back I got involved fell in love with resin.  As with all my craft projects resin comes and goes...but I've been doing alot with resin here lately and I love seeing all the projects with dried flowers and what nots in them. So, I decided to give it a go with some scrapbook leftovers and the August Tres Jolie Mixed Media kit.  The kit came with three small rectangular wooden trays and I just knew it was time to explore "putting things" into resin.  Here is one of the finished projects:

I "experimented" with one tray to begin with, but after take one I was excited to make a tutorial video.  The kit came with some thick pastes, one in a charcoal gray and they other in a light champagne color.  For the tutorial I covered the tray in the champagne color and went to town putting embellishments to work. 

I wanted to make all of the elements "float" in the final product so I took some time pour small layers of resin and layered in Renea Bouquets Beautiful beads, glitter, and a ton of other elements so that all they layers were at different levels in the finished project.  

Below you can see some of the layers including beautiful beads, a small broach embellishment, and a hairpin:

I used a Renea Bouquets butterfly on both of trays I made; below you can see the one I used on the champagne colored tray:

Below you can see a close up of the flower clusters I used along with a ton of the "floating" beautiful beads combined with glitter and other what nots!

Finally, here is the original tray I experimented on: 

And finally, the step-by-step tutorial video:

Thanks for watching!  I hope y'all have just as much fun making whatever you're making this week as I had making this!!!

xoxo,

Mel

Pretty (Grungy) in Pink

As promised...here is another layout featuring my hot guy!  If you follow this blog you may remember that he's still learning about the craziness passion I have for all things crafty...and then the August Tres Jolie Kit showed up and it was full of pinks and flowers and all the girly things I love.  BUT...I knew I could do something showcasing the two of us and not make it too girly (after all...I don't wanna scare the man away do I??)

Here is the finished LO:

Even though the kit was fairly girly and pinkish in nature, most of the patterned papers had a few darker elements to them also.  I chose the background paper because it some brick on it and I knew I wanted to use some crackle paste and my scrapbook.com find.

Turns out every now and then sb.com will have a Tim Holtz "bundle" where you get all the things of one color in one fell swoop (read Distress Ink, Distress Oxide, the sprays, the reinkers...just...just...ALL THE THINGS 💓)  And there I was with this gorgeous pink paper and a new bundle of Kitsch Flamingo color items to make magic happen!

I started by tearing a few other pieces of paper from the kit to layer behind my picture.  I chose the picture of us from our trip to Washington D.C. that we took before eating at the Pink Taco.  If you haven't been...check it out...have the spicy margarita and thank me later!  To keep it from being too "girly" I used a few other pieces of paper that had black and pink tones in them, tore them, distressed the edges and inked them up using some of my new "bundle" items and some black ink.  

Below you can see where I used a brick stencil and crackle paste.  I sprayed the paste while it was still dry with just a little bit of the pink Distress Oxide spray, but then also made sure to paint a few bricks pink with the Distress Paint that came in the bundle.  I also used both the oxide and regular spray to splatter on all of my flowers and a few other places on the LO.  

The kit came with two pieces of Tres Jolie black chipboard. So instead of altering the chipboard the way I normally did, I opted to leave it black (and fit in with the color scheme) but I did add some pink glitter glass (for fun...who doesn't love glitter?)

Below you can see my other flower cluster.  The pink and white flowers came with the kit, but the black roses were from stash.  I also used some Heidi Swapp sparkly spray that was black to create some additional splatters around my background, especially on my brick work!

And there ya have it!  I have a whole stack of pics of me and this hottie...and nothing to do except unpack boxes and craft!  (Okay...maybe I should work on finishing painting the living room too...maybe...)

Thanks for looking in!

xoxo,

Mel

 

Best Day Ever!!!

Hey, everyone!  I'm still enjoying my new craft space and if I stay on track I MIGHT (okay...definitely won't) have all the boxes of craft supplies unloaded by 2029...

But in the meantime...I decided to keep the status quo and just enjoy some scrappy fun!

Here is LO I made using the July 2023 Tres Jolie Scrapbook Kit:

This kit was marketed as a masculine kit...and since this handsome man I'm dating is new to learning about my addiction hobby to all things crafty I figured it was a good kit to use to save some of our memories!  We took this photo while we were on a dinner cruise in Baltimore (the cruise itself deserves its own blog...but that's another story) and I knew this kit was going to be perfect for the picture.

If you caught my last blog post and tutorial video, I now have 4 full drawers of flowers.  This does not include flowers that I have probably not unpacked from other boxes of craft supplies, but I have made a promise to myself (and the hottie pictured above) that I will not purchase any new flowers (except for those that arrive my kit subscriptions) until I get my flower collection "under control."

Keeping that in mind, I used a mix of flowers from my stash and a few flowers from the kit.  I had a ton of navy blue flowers (go figure...what with four drawers full and all) and the dress I wore that night was navy as well, so I figured it would be a nice touch.  Below you can see some of the navy blue flowers I used along with some pale yellow/beige flowers:

This kit came with a ton of ephemera and one of the patterned papers had some additional bingo cards.  I cut the bingo cards out of the paper and distressed and inked the edges.  Below you can see some of the "grungy" numbers on the top right.  I honestly can't remember if I used the rub-ons that came in the July kit for that, or if the matching patterned paper included all of the grunge look.  Either way, the kit was a great mix of my style when I'm making more masculine LOs. I also layered some sentiments ("smile" and "best day ever") from the ephemera included in the kit along with several of the paper hearts.

Finally, below are some more of the beige and navy flowers I used for this LO.  I do try to keep my floral use to a minimum on masculine LOs, but it's really a struggle for me...I really, really, really, really like flowers.  

And there ya have it!  This is the first LO I've made featuring just the two of us...and I have a feeling there will be plenty more LOs featuring this hottie 💓...I like him and we tend to take quite a few pictures together! 😍😍

Thanks for looking around!

xoxo,

Mel