Showing posts with label Frosty festivities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frosty festivities. Show all posts

Friday, 16 November 2012

Frosty Festivities Bloghop.


 
Hello and welcome to Frosty Festivities Bloghop which was the brainchild of Jennifer. So glad you could join us as we celebrate a variety of posts all linked to the idea of Winter and all it's amazing aspects. You should have arrived here from Jo B over at Buckingham's Palace, hope you were on your best behaviour and patted the corgis. If you've joined here then don't worry you won't miss a thing as the list of all the blogs taking part are at the end. There are also giveaways so make sure you go right to the end and see what Jennifer has to offer. The pictures are below:


If you comment on all the blogs in the hop, finishing at www.jennifersjumbles.blogspot.com to let Jennifer know you've been all the way around, then you'll be in with a chance to win a spectacular seasonal prize of Basic Grey Aspen Frost and Carta Bella Winter Fun items, worth over £25! All entries must be received by Monday the 19th of November at 10.59pm GMT.

OK so I decided for my blog post I would like to try something I have never made before so I have made some Salt Dough Ornaments. I have seen some lovely ideas in magazines and books over the years but still no tried it so here goes. I got the recipe and instructions from Katy's blog here. She clearly describes how to make the salt dough so I won't go into that part. Suffice to say if you a mixer it's easy, then you knead for all you're worth for 5-10 minutes and then go for the cutting out part. I decided to make a star shaped garland and then several Christmassy shapes including an angel, reindeer, bell etc. I made extras as I wasn't too sure how the shapes would turn out.

While they were cooking, I checked to make sure they weren't cremating in there and found that several of the holes I'd made had closed up. I tried re-making the holes but they still closed off so next time I will have to make them bigger I think. Also some of the shapes went puffy which I think gives them character but if you want them perfectly flat, making thinner shapes seemed to work best.

Anyway once they wer dried, I chose to try two finishes on the shapes: decopatch and paint.

Decopatch is brilliant as you use a special glue/sealer and that saves you having to use any varnish. I found a red Christmas design in my local shop and cut up the paper into tiny squares. Then you just glue and add shapes until the ornament is covered. And here are the five decorations which just need the hangers adding which will be gold ribbon. The material is from my fave fabric store Millie Moon.





The other shapes I firstly painted with white gesso. As the shapes are quite water absorbent I thought having a primed layer would help the paint adhere and also make the shapes more durable.Here they are all ready for the next stage...........................



And the next stage involves some of this..................

Sadly, the finished version will involve a second blog post as my local shops had no metallic paint intil today and there is no time to complete the project. Safe to say I hope it will be lovely once complete. The shapes will be painted gold and red and then the next part involves gold ribbons and a hoop plus some bells. So do come back for the second installment.

Next stop on the hop is Manchester, Tennessee where Julie is waiting to show you something exciting. Have a safe trip.


Here is the full list of blogs should you get a little lost....................


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