Friday, March 28, 2014

Complete Makeover - Challenge #48 - Shabby Chic Bottle

Hello and welcome to another inspiration from me Jovita.

As we are reaching the end of this challenge i hope you all are enjoying the variety you get here at Beyond Grey... We want to push you all away from your comfort zones and try something new.

That's exactly what has happened with me and this particular challenge.

BGC#48 - Vintage/Shabby and Dinnerware

Challenge Specification :
  1. Make either a LAYOUT or dimensional altered project .
  2. Your project must have some sort of Recycled dinnerware,e.g. beer bottle,mason jars , pans ,spoons, treys, coffee mugs , tea cups , tea pots , plates, baking trey, cupcake tin etc. etc...sky is the limit, so keep thinking !
  3. And your project must be either Vintagy  or Shabby Chic.
  4. Adding only cup/plate/spoon or any other utensils' diecuts or stamped images (without abiding Rule 1)will not make the cut this time. 
  5. Deadline to submit will be - 31th March 2014 until 11:55 PM IST

So this is what I took...



and this is what I made....


Decoupage and Sospeso Techniques together create this altered project.



Join in the challenge here




Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Winers Day - BGC#46 & BGC#47

Hey guys ! 
Welcome to the winners post for the BGC# 46 - Love is in the air challenge 

We would love to thank you for your full participation !
It really inspires us to bring more innovative challenges for you !

So let me not make you wait any longer !


was sponsored by the very generous 


The winner who gets the following:
6x6 Prima paper pad
and...



One of these bottles of gorgeous mist!
Is
Lucky #18
Indira  
With this lovely card !
Woo hoo !!! congratulations Dear ! Please mail your full address and phone to lightbox.c@gmail.com 
 with in 48 hrs of this announcement to claim your prize. With the subject line of your mail as WINNER BGC#46

The top-3 for this challenge are ! (In random order)

Rupa  

With this lovely dresser made from Matchbox covers !


Aneta  

With this fantastic Love card 

And last but not the least 


With this lovely vintage themed love card !



Now coming to the winners of 


We could tell that you loved this challenge alot ! with the number of creative entries we just couldnt help but love all of your gorgeous work ! 

The Lovely sponsor for this challenge was
And our wonderful Prize Of

One Magnolia stamp - Tilda catching stars
http://www.lulupu.com/product/tilda-catching-stars
And a bottle of  Frosted lace Stickles!
http://www.lulupu.com/product/frost-lace
Goes to 

Lucky number - 13

Thats you 
Shivani  
your mixed media project really deserves the win !! 

Congratulations dear ! Please mail your full address and phone to lightbox.c@gmail.com 
 with in 48 hrs of this announcement to claim your prize. With the subject line of your mail as WINNER BGC#47

The top -3 in random order are - 

With this gorgeous card 

With this beautiful card !
And last but not the least 


With this superb mixed media project !

This challenge we also had another Beautiful entry that we thought was worth an honorable mention 
that is 

Aneta  
With this stunning spring beauty !
Aneta please email lightbox.c@gmail.com for your New Honorable mention Badge ! 

And Congratulations to all the winners and top 3 of both the challenges !!
 Please grab your Respective , NEW BLINKIE BADGES from the side bar !

Thankyou all for joining us !

Ongoing activities on BGC - 



Saturday, March 22, 2014

BGC#48 Altered Spoons!


 Hello friends!

Hope you are enjoying the beautiful inspiration by our DT.



BGC#48 - Vintage/Shabby and Dinnerware




Challenge Specification :
  1. Make either a LAYOUT or dimensional altered project .
  2. Your project must have some sort of Recycled dinnerware,e.g. beer bottle,mason jars , pans ,spoons, treys, coffee mugs , tea cups , tea pots , plates, baking trey, cupcake tin etc. etc...sky is the limit, so keep thinking !
  3. And your project must be either Vintagy  or Shabby Chic.
  4. Adding only cup/plate/spoon or any other utensils' diecuts or stamped images (without abiding Rule 1)will not make the cut this time. 
  5. Deadline to submit will be - 31th March 2014 until 11:55 PM IST

We would love to welcome the Sponsor for our challenge :



http://www.diecutsandmore.com/


Here is my Project for the Challenge:







I altered old metal spoons by first coloring them with alcohol inks to give it a vintage look and then decorating them with different embellishments. I have used glitter and added tiny flowers, beads and stones. Finally I glued chain and tied ribbon around them. The photos are glued and layered with mod podge.


Here is another pic:


I love the way these spoons turned out and keeping them as a decoration with sentiment ‘life is beautiful’.

Hope you like it :)
Be sure to check back for more inspiration in the next few days!
To link your project, go here

Take care :)
zubmomi.


Thursday, March 20, 2014

BGC#48 - A Shabby chic Altered cake tin !

Hello everyone !!! 
Its PJ again !
Hope u are enjoying our super amazing theme this fortnight,

The sponsors this time are -


Do check out all the awesome products they have over at their store

 
Now here is my take on the challenge.
 I wanted to play with my cake baking tin ! so i went ahead and added about 2 layers of ready mix white paint . I wanted it to look crackled and shabby with the Matt effect hence i didn't bother about the neatness while painting my coats.
 I cut out a circle with cardstock for the inside. 
I then used some texture paste through a diecut negative i had . (check out the texture paste in tiny dots all over the place but mainly under the feathers.)

 After that i went ahead and stamped a text script stamp randomly .
Over which i layered all my embellies ! 
Really love how it turned out !
I really enjoy doing shabby chic and this project its perfect fit with the theme.  
Here is how the tin was before the transformation 
And after !!
Hope you enjoyed my creation ! :) 
Do link up your projects asap ! 
I know the theme will test your imagination but,
we would love to see how we managed to inspire you !














Other supplies : 
  • Cardstock white - Hobby craft 
  •  Resin flower - Prima 
  •  Ink pads - Dove crafts , toffee crunch - memento , distress ink
  • Texture paste - Grunge paste
  • Prima rose
  • Prima butterfly
  • gold brads 
  •  Tacky glue
  • Seam binding.



Tuesday, March 18, 2014

BGC#48 - Vintage/Shabby and Dinnerware - Karen

Good morning all my crafty friends!  Hope this finds you all well!!  

I love the creative nature of this challenge!  My DT friends are so utterly talented!!
So here we go with this fun challenge! 
----OH. Before I forget please check out our fabulous giveaway, there is still time to enter!! ----



Challenge Specification : (Please read carefully)
  1. Make either a LAYOUT or dimensional altered project .
  2. Your project must have some sort of Recycled dinnerware,e.g. beer bottle,mason jars , pans , spoons , treys, coffee mugs , tea cups , tea pots , plates, baking trey, cupcake tin etc. etc...sky is the limit,so keep thinking !
  3. And your project must be either Vintagy  or Shabby Chic.
  4. Adding only cup/plate/spoon or any other utensils' diecuts or stamped images (without abiding Rule 1)will not make the cut this time. 
  5. Deadline to submit will be - 31th March 2014 until 11:55 PM IST

We would love to welcome the Sponsor for our challenge :




http://www.diecutsandmore.com/


Here is my mason jar. I use these for canning and storage. My favorite use for them is fresh flowers in the spring and summer months!  My beautiful children share my love affair with flowers and will fill these from our yard daily. Since it sits in the center of our table I decided to make it lively as well. 

I started with this plain jar and painted it using chalkboard paint. I did try acrylic but it was not good. It took two nice coats of this paint and it achieved the shabby feel I was going for. I then sanded the raised areas to allow light to shine thru. ( I thought it would be a candle holder, and it certainly could be!) 

I handcut each of the flowers.
I wanted it to look nice from both sides so this is a shot of the back.

My pesky fur baby was determined to distract me while trying to get the photos.  She, like my children, is very demanding when she wants attention. 

Well I cant wait to see what everyone creates!! Remember to link up in Bipasha's original post HERE!

Have a great week!!
Karen

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