Garden of Grace: Mixed Media, Girlie Grunge Candle Holder for the Third Annual Handmade Holidays blog hop

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Mixed Media, Girlie Grunge Candle Holder for the Third Annual Handmade Holidays blog hop

Welcome to the Third Annual Handmade Holidays blog hop!! The best crafters, designers, and makers have come together to create and share a series of thoughtful, handmade gifts for the holidays during this 3 day blog hop. Our goal is to inspire you to create something from the heart this holiday season as well as share how to use our products in fun, innovative ways. We intend this hop to serve as a resource to you for this holiday season and for years to come.

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You should have come here from Lindsay Obermeyer's delightful blog. If you would like to start at the beginning of today's hop, head on over to the Clearsnap Blog.

Today I would like to share a candle holder I transformed from a bold, bright Easter design into a mixed media girlie grunge gift with Donna Salazar's fabulous products. If you're not already a follower, thanks for taking the time to follow my blog today.

I created this:

From this:

Here are a few close-ups showing the details.

Girlie Grunge Candle Holder Tutorial

Supplies:

Wood candle holder box

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Family Jeans: Family Cards B, Family Eyelet A

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty: Free B

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Smooch Spritz: Wood Stain, River Mossy

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx: Jasmine, Stormy

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx CHOX: Sparrow, Midnight

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder: Jasmine

Spellbinders ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Bitty Blossoms

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Corrugated Hand Drawn Swirls, card size

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Leaves Stencil

Art Gone Wild ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Dear Sir, Woodgrain

Gesso

Acrylic Paints

Light Molding Paste

Matte Gel Medium

Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive, Scrap Dots

Heat Tool

Step 1. Prime top of box and beveled box edges with gesso.

Step 2. Cut 4 pieces of patterned paper just slightly larger than the block sides. I wanted an earthy, grungy feel, so went with this lovely wood grain paper from Donna's Family Jeans Collection. Optional - you could also cut an additional piece for the top and cut a hole to size in it for the candle holder opening.

Step 3. I used matte gel medium to adhere the paper to the wood block and also brushed the gel medium over the paper to give more durability. Allow to dry completely before the next step.

Step 4. Sand the paper edges so they are flush with the wood beveled edges of the box. If the edges rip a little like mine did, don't sweat it, they will be painted and inked, so it won't be noticed. Next paint any visible wood with coordinating paints. I used a combination of grey, blue, and white and painted a wood grain design on the top - similar to the design on the patterned paper.

Step 5. Next I used Donna's Woodgrain stamp with Stormy Mix'd Media Inx CHOX to stamp the top and painted wood edges to coordinate with the paper. Allow to dry completely before the next step.

Step 6. Stamp the top corner with Donna's Dear Sir stamp using Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx and cover with Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder. Heat emboss. Repeat for each of the four sides. If you are impatient and the ink used for the wood grain is not quite dry, the embossing powder may stick in unwanted places. You can use a fine tip paint brush to remove any errant embossing powder before heating. (Ask me how I know - lol!!) **Hint** Your stamping does not need to be perfect or exactly the same on each side - I was going for a girlie grunge look so imperfections and variations are preferred here.

Step 7. Lay your box on it's side and give the stamped area one spritz with Donna's River Mossy Smooch Spritz, then mist with a little water to move the mist around and allow to drip down the side of the box. Heat set. Repeat for all four sides.

Step 8. Apply light molding paste using Donna's Leaves Stencil. Heat set and repeat on all four sides. Make sure the molding paste is dry and set before doing the next side so you don't squish it.

Step 9. Mist the stenciled areas with Wood Stain Smooch Spritz and water - allowing the mist to move around and drip. Heat set and repeat on all 4 sides. **Hint** If the molding page gets too dark, you can gently blot it with a paper towel to remove some of the mist.

Step 10. Apply additional Sparrow CHOX and Stormy Mix'd Media Inx randomly over the box, blending it into the background with a foam applicator or your fingers.

Step 11. Now it's time to decorate the top of the box. Create one large and two medium Bitty Blossoms flowers. A tutorial on creating these roses using Donna's Spellbinder dies can be found here. Then select two pieces from Donna's Corrugated Hand Drawn Swirls pieces and ink the edges and ridges with Sparrow and Midnight Mix'd Media Inx CHOX. The piece on the right in the photo below is bare and the one on the left has been inked.

Step 12. Adhere flowers and corrugated flourishes to the top of the box in one corner and across two sides. I wrapped the corrugated flourish over the top and down onto the side of the candle holder. Here is a photo of the completed box.