I
have a special drawer that I just throw stuff I want to keep in. It’s filled with letters, postcards, ephemera
– just all sorts of stuff that has more sentimental value than actual
worth. On gloomy rainy days, I often get
out the box and look through it. It was
on one such day that I discovered an old postacard that I bought at a flea
market in Paris. The flowers on the
postcard caught my eye and the color palette was so gorgeous. It was this card that inspired these flowers.
My family smirks and calls me the Trash Princess, because I love to upcycle trash and bring out it's "treasure". Using soda cans seemed like the perfect material. They're easy to find - FREE is good! and they're easy to work with. Just be careful as sometimes the metal can get kinda sharp.
Enjoy today's video and remember it's easy to turn your trash to treasure!
Enjoy today's video and remember it's easy to turn your trash to treasure!
Spellbinders
Supplies:
MMM-001 Spellbinders® Artisan X-plorer™
Machine
MD1-010 Susan Lenart Kazmer for
Spellbinders® Media Mixáge™ Hearts Two
S5-143 Spellbinders® Jewel Flowers and Flourishes
Aluminum Soda cans – 2 cans per flower
Item to embellish (i.e., vintage kitchen
grater, old book, photo frame, etc.)
Photograph or post card
Lace
Embellishments of choice
Brooch or large bead focal piece
Krylon® Spray Paint in two colors of
choice (one main color, one accent color) plus off white
Ancient Page Acid Free ink – chocolate
Tacky Dots
2-part epoxy glue
Makeup sponge
Knitting needle or needle tool
Pencil
Sanding block
Scissors
Instructions:
Carefully open soda cans with scissors
and flatten
Cut 6 petals from soda cans using the #3
heart (with #1 being the smallest), 5 petals from the #2 heart and one flower
from Jewels Flower and Flourishes with the Artisan X-plorer™ machine.
Spray paint the 6 hearts your main
color, paint 5 hearts your accent color and spray the jewels flower off
white. Allow all to dry
Lightly sand edges of petals to distress
Ink edges with brown ink using a make-up
sponge
Curl top of hearts backwards with needle
tool
Curl bottom forwards with pencil
Cut small angle snips into bottom of heart
(see diagram)
Bend sides towards center to give a
little more shape to the flowers.
Place two tacky dots together and
arrange larger hearts clockwise to form large flower. Repeat same process with
smaller hearts. Arrange flower petals
into a pleasing form and shape if necessary.
Attach smaller flower to inside of
larger flower with 2 part epoxy glue.
Attach jewel flower to inside of smaller
flower with 2 part epoxy glue.
Glue brooch to center of flower with
2-part epoxy.
Gather embellishments and arrange
flowers, lace and other embellishments as desired onto your main base (i.e.,
book, frame, etc) and secure in place with glue
Your
creativity is limitless - Explore Beyond™!
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