Showing posts with label Lantern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lantern. Show all posts

04 June 2021

Fairy Stamper ~ Summer Lantern

Welcome to my blog. I'm back today with my Fairy Stamper Friday share.


  If you're one of my followers, then  you know that I love creating scenes on lanterns. Well with the new release from Fairy Hugs stamps, I made this one as a piece of Summer decor for my craft room.


Here are the pics taken without the flickering light.





I ordered this lantern from Amazon. It is just the right size and comes with matt glass.  In order to make the glass blue, I smeared Stream alcohol ink on the reverse side. Yes, I literally "smeared" the ink on the glass. Doing it this way, gave me a pretty inky finger :-), but also the illusion of water movement. All images were stamped using VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink.

List of Fairy Hugs Stamps I used to make this project:
I also used a few stamps from the Silhouette Coral Stamp set by Marianne Designs.

If you would like to see the other lanterns I made, please follow the links below to the relevant blog posts:


Thank you so much for stopping by.  I hope you will create a project and come join the fun. Our challenges go live every other Thursday on our Facebook group.   All you have to do is to create a project and upload the pic to our challenge album.  There is a $15.00 prize for one lucky participant.

Till next time,
stay safe and well.




12 September 2019

Halloween Lantern.

Hello crafting friends and welcome to challenge #9 at Lavinia World,
where the theme is always Anything Goes!


If you're a follower of my blog, you may remember that I made a Christmas Lantern last year, and that I said I was going to make a Halloween one for this year.  Well, promised kept, crafting friends :-)


I used the same style of lantern as I used last year, except that this one came with frosted glass already, so I didn't have to do that. After cleaning each glass panel well with rubbing alcohol, it was just a matter of choosing each scene and stamping my images using StazOn Jet Black ink.


I've listed all the stamps I used per panel on each picture below and I will link them to the Lavinia World store for your convenience.


Front:


Right Side:


Back:
 (I used the antlers to stamp the spooky looking shrubs :-)


Left Side:


The lantern comes with a "flickering candle" inside in the form of LDE lights, so it was difficult to photograph, but here is one of the best pics I got to give you an idea of what it looks like when lit.


To decorate the lantern on the outside, I used a black satin ribbon to make a bow and adhered it to the middle of a purple flower from my stash.  Next, I deshanked a few spider buttons and adhered one to the middle of the bow.  The other buttons were glued to the lantern at random places to finish it off.  Almost forgot to tell you that I used a MISTI to stamp these images. Makes it easier to stamp on smooth surfaces such as glass. 

Thank you so much for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed your visit and will make a project to come play along with us.  Although our theme is always Anything Goes, you do have to use physical stamps, either rubber or clear. 
 NO DIGI stamps allowed. 
We prefer that your submissions use Lavinia stamps, but it's not a requirement.  However, if you do use Lavinia stamps in your project, your chances of winning are doubled.


The winner of the challenge will be able to proudly display our Lavinia World winner's badge on their blog, and receive a $15 gift certificate to the Lavinia World store.  Lavinia World offers the complete range of Lavinia stamps and papers.  Although Lavinia Stamps is from the UK, Lavinia World is a US based store that ships worldwide.

Also, please note that we are not part of any other entity or Facebook group that carries Lavinia stamps.  ONLY the cards posted to Lavinia World Challenges will be entered into the drawing for the Lavinia World prize. Also note that the gift certificates are ONLY valid at Lavinia World. 

 For more inspiration, visit our Challenge Blog and see all the wonderful and creative projects my team mates made for you.
We'd love for you to follow us on Facebook and Instagram too!

I've entered my lantern in the following challenges:


Till next time,
crafty hugs, 

04 November 2018

A Christmas Lantern

Hello crafting friends and welcome back to another Dies R Us inspiration post. It's my turn to share a project that I've wanted to do for a while and thought it now the perfect time.  It's a Christmas Lantern. Isn't it pretty?


While I was at Walmart, I saw this pretty lantern and immediately my mind started working. I've wanted to alter a lantern for a long time and this lantern just jumped out at me :-)


I began by taking the four pieces of glass out, cleaning them really well with alcohol and then spraying them with Rustoleum Frosted Glass to give it the frosted look.  Since I wasn't sure how the vinyl would adhere to the frosted surface, I sprayed the glass panels on the inside.

Next came the vinyl cuts to make my scenes.  I had never cut vinyl using dies before, so I was a little apprehensive at first, but after the first cut,  I realised that it was pretty easy, and so the rest of the lantern scenes came together very quickly.
Here are a few more pics showing you all the sides.




And here are a few photos that show the continuation of the scenes.



And lastly here is a photo that shows you what it looks like when lit up.  This particular lantern is actually very cool in that it has a built in timer clock of sorts.  So it goes on for 6 hours and off  for 18 hours.  It's just perfect ... it goes on at 6:00 pm and flickers away till midnight.  Then it goes off and comes back on again at 6:00 pm the next day :-)
While I was working on the lantern, the little Christmas decoration it came with fell apart.  So I made my own and attached it with a Christmas tartan ribbon.


Below, you'll find the list of the dies I used with links to the Dies R Us Store for your convenience.
In addition to dies readily available in the US, I also used international dies that only go on sale, at the Dies R Us Store, every so often.  During these times, you will find dies from companies such as Marianne Designs, Lea'bilities, Joy Crafts and a few others.  The best way to know about these fabulous sales is to subscribe to the Dies R Us Newsletter.  When you go to the store's home page, scroll down to the bottom and there you will find a box where you can enter your email address to be put on their mailing list.


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Well, dear friends that is it from me for today.  I hope I was able to inspire you to use your dies, create a project and come play along at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog for a chance to win a gift voucher to the Dies R Us Store.  A new challenge begins on the first and fifteenth of every month.  Be sure to Follow Us on Facebook too and don't forget that you will find loads of inspiration on our Pinterest Page.


Till next time,
Crafty hugs