Hello, crafty friends! It is Victoria on the blog today. Our August theme is "Flowers" and I absolutely love it: I use flowers in almost every project. And I've prepared something really cool. This lantern I created from scratch and embellished with my handmade flowers. I will give you the instructions below.
1. I cut 8 a2 paper frames and 8 borders, using my die-cutting machine, two pieces 12*12 cm of paper for the top and the bottom and two pieces 10.5*10.5 cm of 2 mm thick cardboard. Also I cut four 1,5*13 cm paper strips and scored them in half in length and folded. Then I glued the frames to the folded strips (1st frame-paper strip-2nd frame, so you get rather firm and steady construction), that way I formed rectangular base for the lantern.

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Our Anything Goes challenge this month means I can just play to my hearts content!
I've made a winter themed panel....






My whimsy girl has a nice warm winter headband, created from 5 shabby rose flowers!





I used white powder mixed with diamond white powder to give that 'all the way through' sparkle. I used my top tip of sprinkling the mould with the glitter powder before adding the molten powder to it..... this gives a glitter shine which doesn't rub off!





Molten white powder makes wonderful snow... and if you look really closely you can see the snowflakes stamped in white!






Have a lovely weekend!
Trish xxx

WOW! product used:
Shabby Rose
Diamond White powder
Ultra High White Powder
Let it Snow stamp set

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I adore creating 3D items, so a Home Decor theme this month is right up my street!
I have created this piece of wall art, using LOADS of shabby rose embellishments....
The base is an old frame that I have distressed with paint and a crackle medium. A little bit of brown ink sponged on top gives a great vintage look! Once the frame was done, I started to create the roses. Yes, this takes a little while as there are 20 in total, but the shabby rose mould can create three at once so that helps!
19 of the roses were created simply with white embossing powder...
The 'accent' rose was created using Primary Apple Red powder, with a tiny pinch of Black to turn the bright red into more of an 'ox blood' type colour. I finished my piece with a word created from plastic letters..
Despite the fact that creating so many flowers is a little time consuming, this is a nice simple project you can have a go at yourself! Why not create a square or an initial letter with your embell…