Window Box Frame

CHA Winter 2012 is coming up soon and I am so excited about this year.  It’s a new year for me and I’m looking forward to a fabulous 2012.  I am rather nervous too, because I am participating in this years Designer Showcase at CHA.  Don’t worry, I’ll take pictures and share my CHA experience with you.  You all don’t know how much your support and encouragement means to me.  This will be my first time exhibiting and I wanted to create something for my table that would represent me without using a big sign.   The Pink Paislee Mistables Wood Shadowbox was the perfect thing for this and is my featured post today on the Tattered Angels Educator Blog.  

I started by using Pewter Glimmer Glam and a script stamp to lightly stamp on the frame front before misting with any color.   I wanted this to be a real subtle effect, so you can barely see the scrip peaking out of the mist on the frame front there.  In one spot, it may not look like much, but it gave a great overall depth to the entire piece.  

I’m learning that color is all about layers to create depth, so I started by misting the whole box with a light coat of Route 66 Glimmer Mist.  I then randomly misted by pooling the color on the box with Wheat Beer, Valentine Pink, and a little Mallard.  The wood accepted the color so nice and evenly.   I brushed the flourished frame part of the box and its edges with some Chandelier Glimmer Glam on front and back for a bit more glimmer!  

I misted a piece of Pink Paislee Mistables paper with Mallard for the background and wiped off the resist, cut it down to size, and glued it in with Helmar Acid Free Glue.   The canvas mat is from Canvas Corp and was misted with Wheat Beer.  I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to  adhere the picture and lace trim to the canvas and to adhere the canvas to the background paper.   Pink Paislee foam alphabet letters were used for my name. 

Pink Paislee Mistables Fabric Pleat Strip was misted with the Valentine Pink Glimmer Mist and glued to the top of the box with Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive followed by a small strip of grey lace trim and a Prima flower. 

Pink Paislee Mistables Chipboard Alphabets were misted with more Mallard and this time glued on with Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots.  The ScrapDots gave that extra dimension to allow the letters to pop off the frame.  If you look close, you can see it under the L there.

To finish the frame and bring it all together, I wove a Prima flower stem through the scroll part of the frame and fluffed it up.   Added a bit of Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive in obscure spots to make sure the flower stem stayed in place. 

Hope you liked my project today and that it inspired you to create something.   These frames are great for so many things, and while you may not need a tabletop sign, maybe you’d like a sign for your studio or even your laundry room.   I can’t wait to make something else with one of these frames.