Design Team Project by Kim Smith

Baby Bailey Treasure Box....with Tutorial!

This pretty little altered box was made using a simple wooden box and a Lisa Kettell Designs  'Baby Bailey' style molded doll. I love these little molded dolls!

Supplies:

Baby Bailey Molded Doll 3 inch
Small wooden hinged box with lid
Fabric flowers and leaves
Tacky Glue
Decoupage glaze
Acrylic Paint
Decorative napkins
Gold Rub n Buff
Distress Ink
Glitter


Directions:

1. Glue Baby Bailey to the top of your box using Tacky Glue and let dry. The box I used had a little inset in the top which was perfect for placing my little doll.
2. Paint the inside of your box with acrylic paints, let dry.
3. Collage a pretty paper napkin (separated from it's white base layer) onto the outside of the box (avoid covering the hardware) using matte medium and then paint to add more color if you wish.
4. Glue small fabric flowers around your Baby Bailey, add leaves and other small floral accents until you like how it looks.
5. Glue a word or other embellishment on to Baby Bailey's tummy if would like.
6. Apply a thin coat of decoupage glaze to Baby Bailey and the flowers, being sure to coat them evenly. Add more thin coats as needed until you are happy with how it looks.
7. When the last coat on the top is completely dry, add a thin coat to the rest of the box if you wish.
8. When all is dry, use distress ink to age and add dimension.
9. Use gold Rub n Buff on the edges of the box and on the hardware.
10. Add glitter if you wish and then let it all dry.

Please be sure to visit Lisa Kettell's Moonfaire'sWorld for lots of other fun art stuff for your mixed media projects! xo

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I love love love Kim's newest project, this is amazing, I love what she did with the Bailey Style, I'm drooling over here, can't wait to try this! xoxo

Design Team Project

 By Sherry Payne-Scott

 

Elfin Diorama Shadow Box

 

Materials

-Elfin parts, Lisa Kettell Designs  

-Recycled cake mix box

-Newspaper

-Decorative paper

-White birch bark

-Floral moss

-Tools: scissors, hot glue gun

-Glues: modge podge, hot glue

Directions

1.To create diorama start with a recycled cake mix box for your base.

2. Measure in a cut 1" in on both sides, folding the flaps in to make the inner depth. 
3. Decoupage the entire box with newspaper and modge podge.
4.Paint the shadow box black. cut decorative paper for the back side, hot glued it in place.

5. Take white birch bark tear it to size, place on the front edges and hot glue into place.
6. Attach loose moss, hot glue the bottom and bottom front pushed the moss into the glue (shake off any loose moss)
7. Then place 3 of LISA KETTELL'S Elfin heads and hot glued them into place.
8. Finally add a rock to make it look as if the Elves are peeking at you.



Princess Fish Media Mail Art
I cut an 8" fish shape out of chip board
I used LISA KETTEL'S pink swirl Cupie paper and tore little pieces to create the scales of the fish
I had an aqua paper and tore it into little pieces to add the blue for the fins
I decoupaged the pieces to create the scales and worked from tail to head
I cut the crown out of the paper, decoupaged it to a second layer to add structure to the crown , then attached the crown with decoupage glue
I attached a 1/2" google eye with hot glue
 

Enjoy!

Sherry Payne-Scott, AAS ID

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How fabulous are these fun projects, makes me want to go straight into the garden and build some enchanted and magical diorama's, tiny little homes for our Elfin and Fairy friends!
xoxo
Lisa