Home plaque for Leonie's Launch

Hello lovely peeps

Exciting news - the very lovely Leonie Pujol is launching her own range of crafty goodies on Hochanda.
Right now
Yes, right this minute :D

AND

I'm on her first design team. Woo hoo!

Since Hochanda stands for 'Home of Crafts, Hobbies and Arts' I thought it was appropriate to show you my 'Home' plaque first.

I started off with a thick chipboard square which I painted with white gesso.

 Next I dragged/dabbed on some Dusty Concord and Shaded Lilac Distress Inks using a sponge.

I stamped the zentangle circles several times down the right hand side in black Memento ink

I forgot to keep taking photos at this point so I'll just talk you through what I did. 

The circles were coloured in with alcohol markers and I stamped and embossed some dangly hearts along the top with white embossing powder.

I stamped some script in black using second generation ink (i.e. I stamped the first time onto scrap paper to take off the intensity)

For the paint circles I put small puddles of black and white gesso on my craft mat and dipped some old plastic caps in it and used them as 'stamps'

Overdid it all a bit and gessoed over the top of half of it again....  :D

[and here the camera makes a very brief reappearance]

I laid the 'home' stencil over the top and masked off the sizes I didn't want. I also made post-it masks for the centres for the o and e.

I spread white texture paste through the stencil then lifted it off and removed the o and e masks with my pokey tool.

I made some bird houses by inking up rectangles/squares/triangles with co-ordinating colours* and overstamping with some of the zentangle stamps.  The roofs are covered with glossy accents.

* same colours as above plus Evergreen Bough and Weathered Wood

The birds were cut from black shrink plastic with a Marianne die set and shrunk with a heat gun before sitting them on top of the letters with silicone glue.
 

The handle is just 3 strands of ribbon twisted together and knotted at the back.

If you've missed the show don't forget you can watch it on Hochanda's catch up service for up to 7 days afterwards. Leonie will also have shows at 9, 12, 4 and 7pm (stock permitting).
You can also 'meet' the other members of the Design Team over on Leonie's blog.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 We Love 2 Create #8 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Happy Little Stampers (Mixed Media)  Wings
 Really Reasonable Ribbon #139 - Things with Wings and Ribbon or Trim
Come and Get It  #114 Things with Wings
Kitty Bee Designs #69 - Living Things with Wings
Love to Scrap  #76 Anything Goes
Creative Fingers #107 Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs (monthly) Anything Goes
 The Crafty Addicts Anything Goes/Girly
Classic Design Team Challenge #1 Anything Goes
As You Like It Challenge Favourite Anything but a Card (I love these square plaques -they're very similar to decorating a card so not too daunting)
SSS Work it wednesday Pastels


Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x