Yep, it’s a twofer.
Here’s my March lamp. I wanted to
use most of the inspiration and many of the elements of Tim’s card plus fill in
the blanks with tattered florals. Here’s
how it worked out:
I don’t have the mini bunny, so I knew I would have to use
the tattered floral mini instead. Since I
had more room to work with, I used it with the Baroque die. I was surprised to find a piece of white
coredinations in my stash – not kraft core, more vanilla, but definitely a good
stand in. Sanded and inked as
prescribed. I knew that I wanted to use
the inked tinsel for the shade bottom, so I inked some ribbon and wrapped it
randomly around a spare bit of card stock and attached it behind the floral.
I have the holiday paper that Tim used and after studying
the sweet images for a while, I decided that I didn’t want to cover them
up. I cut each one out, rounded the
corners, ran the edges around the nib of a silver sharpie and attached them to
the shade with brads. (I used mostly
brads and hot glue for attaching – not sure if adhesives would melt when the
light is on).
I don’t have the grass die, so that was a complete pass and
as I mentioned I wanted to use the tinsel as the lower edge. I inked another piece of ribbon and tied it
around the baroque ornament. It was still
looking a bit naked so I cut a frame out of black chip board using the mini
baroque and did a tarnished silver finish, by doing a multi level silver
embossing powder, UTEE, silver, UTEE – keep going until it looks awesome then
STOP.
For me, the real star
of this show is how really brilliant distress paint looks on metal! Amazing!! I used the recommended foliage
bits as a much needed embellishment for my beribboned floral /baroque
thingy. Now I want to paint all of the
brads on my tattered florals.
So, with the elements of the tag done, I started hot gluing
on the florals. I used a piece of green
wired burlap to loosely wrap around the lamp base, then added more florals. I will
tell you honestly that I was amazed that
the ribbon actually stayed put where I wanted it, with just a little bit of
tape holding it in place at the top and
bottom. For the lamp shade, I was pleased
to find some robin’s egg blue chalk board paper in my stash that worked out
quite well. It takes 2 pieces: each 8 ½” high, 9 ½ wide, overlapped by 1/2“ and
secured with brads. I use the proved IKEA
lamp shade as a template to poke the holes for the shade internal bracket
thingy.
Love my lamp. Thanks Tim
for the inspiration and education!!!
