GRANDCHILDREN'S TAKE ON BUTTON DECORATED FRAMES

 

I was lucky to be able to spend some time during these summer holidays with my lovely grandchildren crafting, they made a great job of gluing the buttons to frames then covering with gesso I had provided black and white gesso for them to choose which one they preferred. 

   

 

Amber with her White Gesso highlighted Button Frame with Red and Gold Inka Gold Gilding

 

 

They used Inka Gold to highlight raised areas.  There were plenty of buttons left over and my grandson covered another frame later that day, leaving the buttons unpainted as he liked and wanted to see the various colours.

 

 

Jay's Button Frame with Black Gesso highlighted with green and copper Inka Gold


 

You can see a few charms embedded between the buttons, just to add a bit of interest.  I think they enjoyed making these as the day before we had used eggshells to decorate a frame. Until next time....

 



PAPER MACHE ARCH

I decorated a large paper mache arch which I have had for years, painted with black paint, highlighted with a touch of Treasure Gold.

When I am painting and spraying I use a large sheet of watercolour paper as my scrap sheet to wipe brushes and to take overspray etc.   I used a sheet of this to decorate the arch.  I added more  paint/ink and images using black ink and white gesso.  Now I will have to decide what to place in each section and if I should use a theme or a collection of anything and everything!



Paper Mache Arch



This next photo is a close up of one of the sections.

Close up



 

 





4" Art Squares and Canvas



At our crafty meetings each month, we decided to hold a 4" swap each month.  I decided to design mine around corrugated board.  Using a mixture of acrylic ink mixed with white gesso to partially cover.  I had prepared lots of embellishments so I ended up making quite a lot of pieces.  The above was the same as the swap piece (but I liked it so much I made another that eventually I used on the canvas below). 

 

 

 

Above is a 16" square canvas I made with other pieces.  It was a gift to my lovely daughter in law. 

 

 

 

 

 

I got a bit carried away and went on to make several cards with similar designs but using a finer corrugated cardboard, 15 in total, all slightly different and still enough embellishments over to make more.