Craft my life

I bought a plain white plastic mirror and wanted to create a gothic style mirror with it. I bought a faux gold necklace and painted the pieces and the mirror black and added pastes to make it look like a vintage piece. I glued these embellishments and the heartskull shrink plastic embellishment at the top of the mirror.

I made myself a paper cut light box with some of my favourite things as a theme. I cut out layers and layers of blank paper into the shapes of butterflies, heartskulls, decor accents and placed them on 3D foam layers so when the light shined behind all you could see was the design I wanted to show. I chose remote control coloured LEDs and created inside a wooden box I decorated with napkin decoupage to go with the decor in my room. I added a sheet of glass to protect the delicate art.

I created the design, cut carefully and placed on hessian fabric with 3D foam pads to add dimension to the box frame.

I decided to create some trio plimsolls for myself. The front of the plimsoll had plastic ends so I painted with nail varnish, one side a large heartskull, the other sparkly black. I added a shrink plastic heartskull on the opposite side, with polka dot design behind.
I handwrote lyrics from Broken wing on each shoe.

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.