Geared Time--Mix Media Clock

 Hello Buddies, this time I have come up with a very unique, classic and vintage and Steampunk style Wall clock with lots of beautiful hangings.I m sure you are going to love this. 


I have made a video tutorial for this....please contact for class details...

Materials used

Chalk paints:
1.Soft sun
2.Bloomed sun
3.Breezy blue
4.Tanned tone

Metallic paint:
1.Vintage golden

Gesso:
1.White gesso

Wooden chippies
1. Steampunk gears 
2. feathers
3.Wings
4. steampunk key
5. Dream catcher 
6. Butterflies
7. Numbers

Metal Charms:
1. keys
2. coins 
3. gears
4. metal chain 
5. Jump rings
6. brads

Base:
1. Mdf steampunk style base
2. Acrylic front cover
3. Clock machine 

Glue :
1. Decoupage Glue
2. Hot glue Gun
3.Glossy accent

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

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

Reading with Roses --- Shabby Bookmarks

Hello Craft People 

Manasa Priya here with a quick DIY inspiration for this month's blog challenge at TECH - anything goes shabby chic using atleast one element from the Element Craft Studio.

So, as you all know I love shabby Chic style and using distressing with flowers and the likes.



That has what has inspired me to create these quick bookmarks.



Do I have taken the MDF bookmarks from the store and decoupage them with the fairyland scrapbook paper. It is full of beautiful quotes, sonnets, little fairies and I really love the prints. And it's got beautiful coordinating element sheet as well.. Which we can fussy cut.



Then I added washi tapes in the empty spaces and distressed the edges and stamped randomly to make the background a little busy. 

 And I assembled all the elements using some foam tape to give it a dimension. Now comes the star of the show, the beautiful flowers.. These are the newly launched paper flowers from RECS. Look at those pretty colors  these are super cute and goes well with any projects



I finally finished it off by adding some embellishments and stickers and ties laces over the top. 



I hope you enjoyed looking into this project  please do participate in the monthly challenge to win some amazing prizes. 

Until next time.. 

Here is the list of all products used in this project---

Bookmarks

Fairyland Scrapbook paper

Mulberry rose mini soft pink

Mulberry rose mini violet

Grass fields micro fine fairy dust

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.