Giant wooden peg project -Sunday stampers

Well , it all started with me thinking a giant peg is wooden, right ? & Hels Sheridan's Sunday stamper Challenge this week is wood . So I got to thinking (good for my oap brain !)

Why not use lovely DoCrafts new botanicals & then I can show it at my demo's :-)

This is what I ended up with :- not just a peg , but a whole project !!

I had a chipboard frame , bought from a show I expect , it was exactly the right size , but I had to chop out the sections (it was three frames in one )

I found a nice solid bit of cardboard & cut it to fit inside the frame, I will cover it in

Eau de nil capsule paper before sticking it in though.

I painted my peg in acrylic paint that went with the Eau de nil nicely , see below

I then made a couple of holes in the top ready for my bakers 

Twine & button hanger 

I used lots of little bits from the botanicals paper to cover my peg , cutting out birds & butterflies

                                       Finally adding some crackle glaze on it

I had a little note book which I covered with an image from the paper pack

The life & journal stamps are from my stash :-)

The red ink is from a new set of artiste inks in a set 

Of red /green together. This red ink was used to sploge on the raffia 

And to ink around the note book

There is a button this photo but I added a rose topper over it later.

I had a great messy time painting my frame with a gorgeous pink acrylic paint

Then added my paper inside and lots of pretty embellishments

So, as you can see above and below I stamped and embossed a pretty rose

Stamp from the same range, I used chocolate brown pigment ink & clear 

Powder, colouring in by swishing my red/green before mentioned ink set onto

My glass mat , oh and a bit of the brown too.

Picking up the colour with a wet paintbrush and building it up.

It was then cut out and decoupaged as photo below

I recently got into stencils ( I know, where have I been !)

& found a brilliant article in the craft stamper saying to make your own

Paste, mix baby powder with PVA glue & I tell you, it works a treat

I used tim holtz stencil & added some pink acrylic paint to the mix

I think it works well :-)

See the pink stripes on the above photo .

Another clever little trick 'A la Mr Holtz ' is to splodge ink on your mat add water 

& randomly dunk your ribbon into it , this one is Bellissimo pink silk

I love the effect when dried with the heat gun

I tied the ribbon on the bottom along with a strip of pearls.

And this went over some very pretty pink lace

I finished off with butterflies cut from a sheet of botanicals paper