Altered bike frame tutorial with Lacie by DT Stephanie

Goooooood morning Bloomies!

SO, did you enjoy the sneak peeks of the Bloom Girls released at CHA?! Aren't Jamie's products just INCREDIBLE?!?! Ok I'm easy to convince on that, since I'm a huge fan of the Bloom Girls, and the possibilities are just endless with what's coming out. Today, I'll be showing you a quick altered project using a Prima Bike Frame, where our Bloom Girl Lacie is inserted! I swear you can do this at home very easy-peasy! And if you have any questions, feel free to tag me in the Bloom Girls Creative Group on Facebook!

Now, the steps...

1. Stamp your image in light ink.
2. Trace a circle with the help of a stencil and colour that part with your favourite colouring medium.
3. Die-cut it and leave aside.
4. Using the back of the altered bike frame wheel cardstock, trace that shape on a patterned paper.
5. Add a lace sticker to the right of the shape.
6. Pop up your coloured image on it with 3D foam dots and add metal embellishments here and there.
7. Insert in the wheel frame.
8. Using chalk ink and a stencil, ink a pair of wings on patterned paper. Fussy cut them and add with adhesive to the back of the frame.
9. Ink all of the object’s edges.
10. Add heavy white gesso with a stencil over some parts of the object. Dry with your heat tool.
11. Stick up some flowers and you’re done!

Products used:

[Brand new!] Bloom Girl Lacie stamp 655350980320

[Brand new!] Wings stencil 980443  

Quick dry Fluid Chalk ink – Tin Can 891152

Altered Bike Frame 573720

Shabby Chic Treasures Garden fountain Resin 892463

Forever Green 6x6 paper pad 655350846954

Forever Green Wood Icons 576042

Prima Flowers 577766, 565992, 578701, 564490

Doily Lace Sticker 572341

Metal Vintage Trinkets 960339

Mixed Media altered frame with Gardenia by DT Stephanie

Good morning Bloomies!

Stephanie here on the blog today with a Christmas prezzie that went to one awesome gal! I try to go out of my comfort zone as often as possible, but sometimes it can go all wrong, like this AHAHAH...oh well, I'm still showing it to you guys!

So the idea was to turn a blank wooden frame (from Michael's) into a total mixed media madness gift. Knowing me, you all realize I couldn't pass the opportunity to put a Bloom Girl coloured in Copics on that, don't you?! Miss Gardenia here got stamped and coloured, then fussy cut to keep only a small section of her bust and hair. 

I inked the frame with a white Prima Chalk Edger (loooooove those cutie inks, so affordable and practical!), added some mold paste with a checkboard stencil, glued some lace and trimmings on half of it, and added several pieces of embellishments, all from my Prima stash box. Everything got a nice coat of heavy gesso from the Finnabair line and got dried with my heat tool. After that, I sprinkled a few pigment powders from Luminarte here and there, misted water over the whole thing and let dry on its own. As always, I put my Bloom Girl on foamy adhesive and VOILÀ!

Close-ups...

What about you, did you make some crafty gifts for Christmas? Come and show us on the Bloom Girls Creative Group on Facebook!