So I made some Shmowders
if anyone's curious they were made using cardboard heart-shaped boxes, slightly modified with airdrying clay to achieve the correct shape and then decoupaged with green napkins and (pain)ted by yours truly. The whole project only took around 15 hours in total, minus breaks for dry ups so mot too bad overall! I had a lot of fun making them.
You can put your antidepressants candy inside! How convenient!
(btw dla polskich fanów łopato którzy będą na warszawskich targach fantastyki będzie szansa dostania jednego z tych pięknych szproszków, ale o tym dokładniej opowiem we wrześniu pewnie c:)
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My desk got damaged while moving, but I didn't want to be wasteful and throw it out. So I decided to decorate the drawers with a collage instead! I love how it turned out (the top drawer especially).
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Collage box collection
After discovering that I had a reasonably big stash of interesting flyers, greetings cards, guidebooks and other bits of ephemera, and seeing this tutorial, I was really inspired to use it all for something.
This was helped by the fact that recently I've found a lot of really nice wooden boxes in charity shops for very cheap - all the ones pictured here were £2. Either I've been extremely lucky, or these things turn up very often and I just haven't been looking for them.
I've posted about some of these previously (here and here), but they were only half done and these pictures are better! Plus there is one new one.
First was this wooden chocolate box. Before...
And after!
You can tell this is my first one as I oversatured the paper with Mod Podge, leading to it bubbling and creasing, but for a first attempt I don't think it's bad at all.
All the pictures I used were taken from an exhibition guide for an event I went to called "Exploring the Gothic" which contained a lot of beautiful pictures. The floral parts were from a pad of scrapbooking paper, which I also used to make the individual compartments (they are origami boxes, see a tutorial for how to make them here) and I then filled them with pieces from my collection of beads, charms, and broken jewellery.
I also had a guide to a William Blake exhibition I'd been to, and since there was an entire plate from "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" I had to make it into a miniature wall plaque.
I did this one at the same time as the first, and again you can kind of see that I oversatured the paper which caused it to tear slightly, however thankfully it wasn't in an area where there was any writing.
(BTW, if anyone is interested in the meaning of this section, Blake is describing his creative process, albeit in a fantastical way. This blog post gives a good analysis)
The next one was a beautiful little cabinet with a broken handle.
And here is what I did with it. I kept the collaging to a minimum, only on the inside, though I might add something to the outside in the future. The replacement "handles" are a pair of my earrings!
I used some more of the gothic exhibition guide and scrapbook paper, and also a flyer for a ballet version of Dracula. I need to find some more interesting things to fill it as it currently only contains my resin crow's skull and a miniature book of Tennyson poems. Also my Cthulhu candle gets to sit on top and be worshipped by the skeleton on the right door.
I did much better with the collaging process on this one. I was a lot more patient, used less Mod Podge for each layer and allowed them to dry fully in between, resulting in no tears, bubbles or creasing.
The final and most recent is this plain box. I noticed it originally came from somewhere called "Palmyra Hardware" which instantly made me think of the Palmyra Wolves (I'm a fan of MrBallen and saw him tell the story on his YouTube channel) which gives a pleasantly creepy angle to this one before I even did anything to it!
After collaging
The central image on the outside is another William Blake painting, an illustration to Dante's Inferno, which includes the famous quote "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here". The writing saying "The way, the truth, the life" came from a religious leaflet that a friend of mine was forcibly given, and which he ripped to shreds, but I saved this part because for some reason I liked it.
Inside we've got a very famous Blake painting called "The Ancient of Days", the praying skeleton again as this image was reproduced several times in that guidebook, and a block printed demon from a handmade birthday card that a friend gave me several years ago. I'm very pleased to have finally been able to use him for something!
I've enjoyed making all of these immensely and no doubt I will do more in the future as I collect more papers and find more nice boxes 😊
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My partner really loves Mari Lwyd, so for this year's holiday card I had a wild idea.
It started with a printout of a horse skull, which I sort of mapped out the bone structure of in a few different layers.
Then I started cutting the different layers and stacking them to give it some depth.
When I had the general skull shape, it was time to make teeth. Now, I've done a lot of wild crafting stuff but let me tell you, there's something very cursed about carving teeny individual horse teeth out of cardstock, then using tweezers to glue them in place.
Once I had the skull, I gave the shadows a bit of a run with a pencil and blended that into the cardstock for some dimension.
Now it was time to finish it off. I used tissue paper to fold and mold like fabric and braided some ribbons to decorate. Found a random rhinestone for the eye and...
Ta-da! I love the final product 😍
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Su Blackwell’s découpage The Snow Queen, cut directly from an old book, made an impressive sylvan setting for the season’s jewellery, by Lacey, 2008
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MY DIGITAL SHOP IS OPEN!
Attention all of my journaling/bujo/scrapbooking/grimoire babes! My Etsy shop FaeryFragments is now up and running with a 30% off opening sale!!
I will be offering ephemera kits, digital papers, printable sticker sets, and more!
Here are some examples of the ephemera packs that are currently live on my shop:
Blood Roses
Siren Song
Grimoire
Goblincore
Winter Solstice
Disenchanted
If you like the vibes of any of these sets please consider checking out my shop and even giving it a follow for future updates!!
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Just need to let this coat dry, lightly sand it then another coat. There's so many layers on this thing at this point
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Just felt like sharing my most recent arts and crafts project 😊
I decorated a lampshade with pages of my defective copy of Hamlet (it was one of the really small Folger’s editions and the middle 180 pages just fell out before I had even gotten to that point in the book). If anyone’s got any craft ideas involving the remaining pages let me know!
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