Craft my life

I am here to share a wooden tombstone mixed media piece themed around the song 'Live young, die fast' by Alkaline Trio. I created with die cut foam, acrylic paints, wooden embellishments, ceramic embellishments, resin flowers and hearts with shrink plastic elements I created too. Its finished with a metal quote plate on the stand.

I found some blank metal belt buckles on ebay a little while back so I decided to try altering one. For this project I used design papers, Canvas cardstock, corner punch and glossy accents. I created the design and die cut stars out from the paper. Once it was all glued and dried inside the buckle I covered the entire design with a layer of glossy accents.

I took a wooden tombstone shape and created a star scene with texture pastes, stars I die cut out of foam, acrylic paints and mica pigments, some lyrics on canvas paper, a shrink plastic heartskull and a metal quote.

Good evening everyone, hope you are well! I am here with a clock I made as a gift for a friend. I made an A4 design of lyrics in a craft program then printed onto pretty design paper. On the edges I added musical notes paper, then I added the clock movement and four shrink plastic heartskulls.

I created a 'snow globe' type poster for a friend. I created a poster and embossed with black butterflies. I then wanted to add something extra special so I created the globe effect by adding nail caviar in pretty colours (various purples, black and silver) and then sealed the unit so they wouldn't escape from the frame. I then used texture paste on the frame and painted with black and acrylic then sealed with mod podge.

I wanted to create something special for Derek from Alkaline trio so I decided to make him a back lit canvas themed around his solo work. I sewed LED lights into the back of the canvas, then made a design and pierced the card stock to make 'stars' around the trees to really show the light behind. Then I made a 'frame' with embossed metallic card stock which I sanded and added embellishments to. A little while later Derek featured it on his instagram which was a huge honour.

One project I have been creating for years is a 'Legacy' scrapbook where I took all the photos I could get hold of, arrest their decay from age by scanning into the computer and working to restore them to the best of my ability with photoshop and then printing and creating with the photos to honour them as they should be honoured as my ancestors. I bought a kit a long while ago so I have four scrapbooks to cover my father's and mother's branches of the family from my grandparents back with photos from each family. I am trying to create a legacy scrapbook I can pass on to family that come after me and hopefully pass on a love of the past. I chose a distressed type kit because it fits the age of the photos and is beautiful despite the flaws. I hope you enjoy seeing them. Have a good day :)