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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

Ancient Time Teller

Hi all dear crafty friends, Anika here with an out of the box project for you all---Ancient

time teller...

A very beautiful base designed by our dear TECS team.  TECS team designs always amazed me with their details and inspire to give our best to make the project beautiful. Hope, you all will like the tutorial. So, lets start dears with the list of material that we need to make our project - 

List of material used from TECS---

Victorian Clock Base

Soft Sun Chalk Paint

Barley Green Chalk Paint 

Wine Red Chalk Paint

Vintage Knobs

Filigree Corner

Chain Stencil

Brick Stencil

Victorian Border Stencil

Shri Buddham Decoupage paper

Mod Podge  

texture paste 

ball chain

Varnish

Crackle medium

In this project i did lots of stenciling (my favorite) and coloring. TECS stencils are very easy to use. Their transparency helps you to arrange your stencil in exactly at the place where you want them. 

To start my project i took the front part of the clock and divided that roughly according the stencil designs that I wanted. once i got satisfied with the designs, i did my stenciling with texture paste and paste the ball chain with mod podge around the edges. 

For the middle part , I have used Buddha decoupage paper. The particular sitting posture represents PEACE and Blissful--the house may be blessed with his blessings. 

On the right side of paper ,I have used gloss gel to give some texture effect. for the dial part, i gave crackle effect with barley green chalk paint and pasted ball chain.

After drying the gloss gel completely i gave shading with metallic bronze and red wine color and wiped the extra color with wet tissue.  

For the dial part, I colored the dial cutout with red wine chalk paint.

For the front i colored all with soft sun chalk paint. to prepare the base also, I paste the lace and ball chain around the edges and color all with the same color chalk paint.

After drying the color , I did two coats of varnish on the front part and leave that to dry complete. When the varnish got dry , I applied the red wine color on the stencil parts and wipe the extra color with the wet tissue. I did the same process 2-3 times , until I got the desired results. I gave crackle effect on the top and bottom of the front flap like we have in buddha pic and highlight the stencil work with red wine chalk paint. I have pasted the metal knobs both of the sides.

Now its time to paste all the parts together. I have used wood glue to stick the front and back parts together. I applied wood glue on the sides of the back part and paste the front part very carefully . Align the both parts very properly otherwise it will be difficult to get the parts get fit in the base slot. place the clock machine in the clock and cover that with acrylic glass. i used resin embellishments for the top design to give it vintage look. I applied the primer first and the gave two coats of red wine chalk paint and highlighted the curves with bronze metallic paint. 

   Then i fix the parts in the base slot and gave some final touches with bronze metallic paint to give shine my time teller. 

 Hope, you all will like the tutorial. Please give your valuable reviews and if you have any questions, feel free to send me a message. Thank you all for reading my tutorial. HAPPY CRAFTING TO ALL MY DEAR FRIENDS.

Flairs On the Rock-- Crinkled Decoupage Plate

Hello buddies, Bindiya here again with another absolutely unique vintage style project. 

Whenever u think to do decoupage on any glass product u mostly think of reverse decoupage technique but here I came up with a very different techniques called as decoupage with cream crinkled tissue texture background on a beautiful glass plate from TECS. 

So here the result is---

Material used

1. Duralex Glass plate 

2. Rustic russet and faded teal chalk paints

3. White gesso

4. Vintage Woods Decoupage paper 

5. Modge podge Matte finish

6. Fevicol 

7. Micro bead pearls

8. Vintage Gold Chalk paint

9. Inka Gold

10. Aquadur Varnish

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Speckled Spark--Mix Media basket

Hello crafty folks,

How are you doing? Vidhi here, back again at TECS with my other project. The MDF products are so amazing from TECS that we don't have to do so much on it as finishing and quality is so good.

Materials used from TECS:

TRELLIS Basket

Oval Frame pair

Gear set

Metallic Paint

This time I altered a TRELLIS Basket from TECS. I have used beautiful MDF cutouts from the store. Oval Frame pair and Gear set. These cut out are amazing with fine details.

 Now let's start the procedure to make it...

 First I gave a coat of Black gesso to the entire basket. 

Then I roughly placed my MDF cutouts on their positions. I have put a peacock as my focal point but later I changed that.

I added some flowers and rhinestones too. After finalist positions, I stuck all the elements on the basket with heavy gel and again gave a coat of black gesso on it.

Now the next step is to color them. I used metallic paints to color all the elements. Used bronze and golden metallic. Didn't color them much as I want the black shadow effect on it. Just highlights with colors. At the end used waxes for more shine and mini stones to create more interest.

A Rustic Era--Vintage Tray

Hi all crafty lovers. Anika here with another beautiful project for you all... Here I am presenting tutorial of Vintage style Tray having that Oldie Goldie rustic era charm---

All TECS trays are beautiful but this vintage rustic tray is my favorite. It was really a great fun, working on this project. So, lets start our project dearies. First here is the list of material we need for this project. TECS is getting one stop crafting shop, most of the material is available only at TECS itself---

Vintage Tray

Vintage Beauty Decoupage Paper

Golden Chalk Paint
Faded Teal Chalk Paint
Gunmetal Chalk Paint
Mod Podge Gold leaf Paper
Ball Chain
Epoxy Resin
Resin Charms

We are starting our project by arranging our resin charm decoration pieces on the tray. Try different ways to arrange your pieces and once you get satisfied with your arrangement , paste them on the tray by using Mod Podge. I also used ball chain to give border finish on the inner border of the tray.

Oops, forgot to remove the handles. No worries, now we can do that. Remove the handles to keep them clean. Now, color the tray with AnRa Crafts faded teal paint.

Give some brown color shades around the charms to give them depth. Also, use your dry brush and give some strokes on the border of the tray to highlight the beautiful cutwork of the tray. Its time to give some shine to your tray , so use AnRa Crafts vintage golden chalk paint to give some highlight.

Now, its time to decorate your tray with beautiful vintage beauty. Oh, how to cut the paper in round shape. It was the question. So, I used kitchen paper towel and mark that by putting on tray first and when I got the perfect shape of the paper napkin, I used that to cut my decoupage paper in perfect shape.Place your vintage beauty on the tray. At this time you can also put back your handles or you can do it later.

Now, use some gel medium to cover the surface of the tray. Paint the inner sides of the tray with brown color and spread that little with cheese cloth. For gliding, I have used spouncer, put the modpodge on the plate and pat the spouncer and do some strokes here and there on the plain side. When you use spouncer you don’t need to wait and you can stick your gold leaf paper at the same time. Now, wait for ten minutes and remove extra leaf paper with brush.

And now its time for finishing touches. So, for this project I have used epoxy resin to give a shiny look to my project. I mixed up the resin and pour that in the tray. It takes 6-7 hours to get the resin dry. And here is our final project.

Hope, you all will like the project. Please feel free to message , if you have any queries. Happy crafting dearies.

Mini Theatre

Hi Crafty Pals..

This is Sheetal ,Creative Designer at The Element Craft Studio.Today I am here to Share a Mini Theater Shadow box card with you all.

Here I share the Glimpse of the Project.

This project is full of chipsters basically in a beautiful Garden theme. I used lot of leaves clusters cutout and tried to give it a fresh look of greenery.

List of Materials used

White cardstock

Beary love paper pack

Leaf cutout

Bench 

Couple cut out

Flowers from my stash

Glimmer dust

Step 1: I took 12 by 12 inches white card stock and trimmed it to the size of 7 by 12 inches. 

Step 2: Next I scored the lines as given just to make a proper folding of the card.

Step 3: Next I have used a border punch to punch the upper border and inked the edges.

Step 4: I took 2 strips to attach in the inner side of the folded Shadow box, placing one backward and the other at the front as shown in the picture.I layers all the cuttings with the beary love paper pack...

Step 5: Finally I placed the Garden bench,leaves, Dancing couple,stars,branches after coloring them.I applied white glimmer dust on the cupid cutout and the stars as well and embellished the shadow card with stone lace..And this is how it looks :)