Let me start off by saying that this project is one of the
reasons why I adore Wall Sugar product. The versatility of their product is
virtually limitless!
This is what i started with...
So this month I was given the Perfect Posies set (http://wallsugar.myshopify.com/collections/all/products/perfect-posies ) as my design team challenge. I was thrilled to work on the
perfect posies, they present so many different possibilities as a blank canvas,
but this is my version of the Perfect Posies!
I used a
variety of nuts/bolts and whatnots from the hardware store. I took heavy
fencing wire and made a vine per say on the stems and used it to adhere the metal
leaves. I stained the posies with Tim Holtz distress stain - broken china. I
used a small gage wood doweling as the stems and stained them with Tim Holtz
distress ink – forest moss. I covered a styrofoam ball in Tim Holtz tissue tape
and stained it with forest moss distress ink, then hot glued the ball into
place in the flower pot. I placed all the nuts, bolts and hardware in a jar and
added Tim Holtz adirondack ink – pesto to stain them. They are adhered to the Styrofoam
ball with liquid glass and I added old watch coils to look like small grassy
vines. I adhered Graphic45 Kraft Refections paper and glued it to the posies to
create the base and sanded them smooth and then stained them with the broken
china. For the large posie I traced and cut two each of the three sizes of the
perfect posies and stained them. This makes up the front and back of the large
posie . Next I used the sizzix to cut two sets of the Tim Holtz tattered
florals die and stained them, which makes up the front and back of the medium
posie. I then cut four sets of the sizzix flower daisies #2 die, and stained
them and that makes the front and back of the small posie. Then added a
menagerie of gears, watch parts and what not to make up the centers of the
flowers. In between the petals of the medium and large flowers I used Tim Holtz
alterations gadget gears die and Tim Holtz aterations movers and shapers gears
die and cut them out of black cardstock, I mixed black and silver embossing
powder together to create a metal look. I then tucked the gears in between the
petals and adhered them in place. I added a little snail that I crafted out of polymer
clay. His shell is a nut and a die cut gear and old watch part gears with wire
for antenna’s. For the flower pot I used
the sizzix top note die to cut a piece of grunge board and then used the Tim
Holtz alterations texture fades embossing folder – steampunk and then used Tim
Holtz distress ink black soot Tim Holtz distress ink broken china to achieve
the color. I added the embossed gears in the same way that is mentioned above. I
put in two eyelets and ran the ribbon through the eyelets and tied it off to
one side. I next added the lettering. The black lettering is Thickers black
shoe box and the sliver lettering is Thickers silver dear lizzy. I adhered the
letters on with liquid glass for extra support.
Here are some additional photos...
Front
The Back...
I hope
you enjoyed My Mechanical Garden as much as I enjoyed creating it!!!
Thanks
for stopping by :)
Stepheny
