Royal Lady Treasure Box

Hi all crafty lovers, I am Anika. I am really excited to share the tutorial of my new TECS DT project with you all. I wanted to thanks TECS team for their amazing products and quality. You can not stop yourself being creative when you have such amazing quality products in your hands.In this blog, I am going to share the tutorial of Royal Lady Treasure Box. Let's start the tutorial with the list of the material we need for this project. Here is the list-

https://www.theelementcraftstudio.com/product/boxes-23/

https://www.theelementcraftstudio.com/product/i-love-paris-1-in-15x10/

https://www.theelementcraftstudio.com/product/frost-silver-chalk-paint-4-fl-oz/

https://www.theelementcraftstudio.com/product/pale-azure-chalk-paint-8-oz/

https://www.theelementcraftstudio.com/product/white-chalk-paint-4-fl-oz/

https://www.theelementcraftstudio.com/product/mod-podge-matte-16-oz/

Varnish

Resin embellishments

Ball chain

Black oil color

Pearls

To start the project first I remove the lock and hinges from the box. then I had stick the ball chain on the borders of the box and paint the box with light grey color. For light grey color i have mixed AnRa crafts pale azure and white color together. AnRa Crafts chalk colors are very smooth, just one coat is enough to give the perfect surface. 

 I also colored my resin embellishments in grey color.

I have used beautiful AnRa Crafts " I Love Paris " decoupage paper for this project. I had stick the paper on the all four sides and inside of the lower part of the box . I had cut the lady face for the upper part of the box. When the resin pieces got dry then i arranged them on the box and stick them . When the color got dry then i gave a coat of varnish on the box. 

 

 To highlight my resin decoration I have used black oil color. I paint the embellishments with black oil color and then i rub them with the wet tissue to clean the extra color . I did the same process with all the resin embellishments. 

Then I decorated the front part with pearls and highlight the surface and all the resin parts with AnRa Crafts frost silver chalk paint. For inside i did stamping on the four corners of the box and stick a decoration peice in the middle. Now its time to add the lock and hinges back. And then Igave some final touches with silver color to complete the box. Hope, you all will like the project.

    Please feel free to message me if you have any queries. All suggestions and comments are welcome. Happy Crafting to all of you :)

Moroccan Style Boxes

Hello Crafty Friends,

Semonti here again on TECS blog for share my DT inspiration post. We all need different types of storage in our everyday life. Properly organized things make our life easy.

TECS has huge range of various types’ organizer storage on their MDF range. Today I have made a beautiful small tray with two nesting box. Here is my project.

Materials used from the store:

Mdf Base

Moroccan Beauty 2

Victorian Border Stencil

Chalk Paints- Rustic Bronze, Patina, Aqua Green, and Tanned Tone

Metal Corner

Step by step procedure:

1. First I have applied texture paste with border stencil on four sides of the tray and let it dry. Then apply white gesso all over the tray and inside of the two boxes and the two lids. 

2. Choose two colors for inside the tray and boxes and lids(Tanned Tone and Rustic Bronze) and two colors for outside of the tray(Aqua Green and Patina)

                                         

3. Highlighted stenciling designs with Bronze paint.

                                          

4. Now decoupage two boxes. I have chosen Moroccan theme 2 different design papers for each box. Cut the papers according to box size and decoupage it with Mod Podge matte. 

                                         

5. After dry the glue I want to create a royal look on my project. For that I use gold foil randomly on two sides of the boxes and gold wax on stenciling area of tray and edges of two boxes, lids. 

                                      

6. I want matte look on my project so use matte varnish on it.

7. Lastly add metal corner on tray. Here are some more pictures of my projects.

If you like it, please leave some love.

Love and Hugs,
Semonti

Sunny Roses on Jar

Hello crafty folks,

I am back again at TECS blog with my other inspirational project, recently TECS launched new Jute flowers. They are just amazing with so bright and fresh colours.

I received a beautiful Acrylic front Jar as my DT kit. I love to alter jars.

The materials used from TECS :

1. Acrylic front Jar

1. Rustic gold Decoupage paper 

1. Juthe flower

1. Wooden cutouts

1. Chalk paint

Let's start the procedure to alter a Jar.

First, I gave a coat of chalk paint ( Rustic Russet ) to the entire jar. After that, covered 3 sides of jar and lid of the jar with Decoupage papers ( Rustic Gold ). Cut the papers according to the size of the Jar and glued it with Mod Podge. Added texture with modeling paste and color .

Second Step is to gather all embellishments to decor the Jar. I used TECS

different wooden cutouts. Arrange them roughly first and after that glued them with a hot glue gun. Now I added 3D stickers for more interest. And the step is to add different types of stones to create more depth. It's almost ready now, at the last I stuck Acrylic sheet with hot glue gun in front of the Jar.

It's ready ... Hope you guys love it !!!

Have a good day ...
Thank you,Vidhi Jadeja

Home Sweet Home

Hello Crafty Folks..

Now greet everyone at your door step with a cheerful and a fresh hello. Yes, I am talking about a name board that defines what you are and be very useful as well.

Today I am on The element Craft studio blog with a very useful project - A pine wood heavy duty nameplate with a slot to add plants or collect your milk and newspaper.

For this,  I used the bubble gum pink chalk paint from Anra crafts and gave it a distressed along with adding some portions of stenciling.

The corners I used the metal findings,  book corners to give it a very vintage finish as well as protect the edges.

This welcome chipboard is a very beautiful and intricately cut pattern from the chipboard collection from Anra Crafts.

Added our family name along with Metal Home embellishment to finish the top.

The panels I distressed with black archival ink from ranger. 

How do you like it? 

Do let me know on the comments below 

Here is the list of all the materials used to make this nameplate.

Nameplate

Chalk paint

Chipboard

Metal edges

Handyman for Letters

Hi all dear crafty lovers, today i am going to share the tutorial of vintage letter rack. 

Another wonderful DIY base from TECS… TECS bases are beautiful  and at the same time very useful too. Stylish and sturdy wall mounted mail organizer with two pockets , provides great convenience and functionality to keep your mail, letters, small documents and catalogs etc in one place with easy accessibility. Let's start with the list of material we need to create this project-

Chalk Paint (Soft Sun, Brown Chalk Paint, Barley Green , Vintage Golden)

Mod Podge

Bordure 15*10"

Vintage Knob Style Brads

crackle medium

Mail Organizer

To start the project, first i applied the barley green chalk paint on the back piece of the organizer. After drying the base color i applied crackle medium on that and then painted soft sun chalk paint as the top coat. I just wanted to give the feel of crackle effect , so did not use very contrasting colors. 

 pic of crackle effect

For the front rack pieces , I applied mod podge on the surface and covered the surface with TECS bordure decoupage paper.  I gave distress effect with archival brown ink on the sides .

After drying the mod podge, I applied varnish on the front rack peices. Then I have used golden color outline tube to highlight some lines of the paper designs and decorated it with wooden cutout and metal vintage knob. I also colored the ball chain in brown color and stick that to give the border design to the flap pieces.

To give the back piece little darker effect, I did dabbing with brown color. Then I  assembled all the pieces together.

To give the final touches to my project, i applied brown color distress effect on the sides of the organizer and decorate it with resin embellishments. 

For resin embellishments, first I applied the gesso on the pieces and then color with brown chalk paint and gave some highlight with golden color.  I hope, you all will like the project. 

Please feel free to message me if you have any questions. all suggestions and reviews are welcome. Thank you for reading my blog. HAPPY CRAFTING to all crafty lovers.

Thanks,

Anika

Love Packed in Box

Hello guys,

I am Back on TECS, this time with a gift idea for Mother's Day. Mothers are everything to us and I am sure, none of us would like to leave a chance to make them feel special . Let's get going !

To begin with I have a beautiful carved box from TECS, all their products are super strong and smooth.

There is no need of sanding required. Using the stencil, I created some texture on the base.

Now,  once the texture paste is dry,  varnish on the texture,  so that it doesn't spread while painting above.  Now I painted the whole box with this beautiful wine red chalk paint from Anra Crafts.

Using a decoupage paper,  I pasted the inner base with these cute deer's..  Looks like a mom and daughter to me  isn't this print beautiful? 

Now the top flap of the box I applied crackle medium and painted with a cream for the red cracks to show.

I took one more decoupage paper with beautiful flowers and randomly cut them to do volume decoupage.

Pasted the fussy cut flowers on to the sospeso sheet and fussy cut and embossed them to make a beautiful floral arrangement for the top of the box.

Added some pollen and pink glitter to add some interest.

Finished the arrangement by adding a sentiment "Memories" In the center.

So,  this is how the box looked once done. 

Now,  to make it look more vintage,  I added these metal legs from the Anra Crafts metal embellishment collection.

I totally love the outcome,  and hope my mom would love this too 

I hope you like this project.  Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below.  Thank you for stopping by! 
Until next time..  
Here is the List of all the products used in this project
Trellis Cut work lid box
Deer charm Decoupage paper
Border Fleur decoupage paper
Soft Skin chalk paint
Wine red chalk paint
Zigzag magic
Pink glitter
Metal legs