Project / Altered Bottle 改造玻璃瓶

    One of my favorite mixed media brands goes to Prima Marketing. Prima has the most beautiful paper stacks, flowers, charms, watercolor, sprays, dies, stencils and collage products..... everything you could think of mixed media. And they have a wonderful design team!  Today's project was totally inspired by one of Prima's creative team member, Miranda Edney. She created a lot of  beautiful projects that I just adore. I followed Amanda's tutorial and pretty much copied her design concept . You can check it out on Prima's blog or Youtube channel.

    I altered a glass bottle into a piece of home decor. I love the beautiful shabby chic feel it turned out. The magic is using soft blue paint, gesso white brush, and brown-y shade of colors, and the last but not the least, flowers!

This is the glass bottle I used. 

I also used some beads and shells from my old bracelet that was broken by accident. I thought it was a great way to recycle them and give them a second life. 

I had a lot of fun making this project. Hope you like it as much as I do.

Love.

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        我自己很喜歡收集東西，看到兼顧耐用的盒子罐子總是想留著以後用得上，可是通常都是一放好多年，直到下次再整理的時候清掉，可要丟的時候總是捨不得，繼續留著不僅佔地方又不能當擺飾美化空間。這一次看到Prima Marketing的改造玻璃瓶影片教學，決定來挑戰一次舊物換新裝。

        比起老舊灰濛濛的復古風，我比較偏愛別緻古典的懷舊風，當然復古風不一定都是黯淡的色彩，古老的照片，發黃磨損的物品或工業革命的機械風格，只是相比起這些元素，我喜歡懷舊的法式風格，可以精緻甜美也可以鄉村溫馨，一般會使用的元素比如蕾絲，亞麻，布料，花草，粉藍色，杏粉色，嫩黃色，藍綠色，玫瑰紅等等。若要列舉比較代表性的彩印廠牌或設計師或彩印人的話，我覺得Crate Paper, Maggie Holmes和Milissa Philips可說是最好的典範之一。

        今天要介紹的是另一個代表品牌: Prima Marketing. 這是一間美國的彩印品牌，出過很多精彩的美編紙設計和紙花，最近幾年來更把觸角延伸到多媒材的領域，相繼開發出型版，水彩，拼貼膠，塑型土，微粒珠，噴瓶，壓克力水彩等等商品，種類之豐富幾乎要跟另一個多媒材大廠Ranger互別苗頭了。

        這次的作品是參考了Prima在Youtube的影片教學，由非常優秀的彩印人Miranda Edney示範的改造玻璃瓶，雖然是英文發音，但是如果慢慢看完整個影片的話，也能看得懂如何跟著教學自己動手作。有興趣的人可以點我放的鏈接去看看。我幾乎是照搬Mranda的示範依樣畫葫蘆試加上一點變化做出來(畢竟材料有限)，當然因為經驗不足，有很多環節碰到問題，雖然之前也曾經改造一個桂格麥片盒，變成放紙膠帶的收納盒(點這裏看)，不過紙和玻璃的還是有差異的，有一些地方總是不如Miranda作起來那樣輕鬆簡單，不過手作的過程充滿了樂趣，我還是很享受錯誤發生和努力補救的過程的。

        篇幅的關係(其實是想偷懶了)就不贅述製作的過程了，如果你/妳也有興趣自己動手改造一個這樣的玻璃瓶，又看不太懂影片上的教學的話，歡迎留言問我，我很樂意分享或交流喔！

        如果你/妳對Prima的產品有興趣，想知道台灣哪裡買得到的話，介紹幾個店家給大家，看到網頁右手邊的最下面幾個愛店名單沒，好心藝，百會，SB小販，牧莎記事這幾家都有進貨，尤其是SB小販，應該可以算是全台灣進Prima產品速度最快，種類比較齊全的我的愛店了。

Supplies:

White gesso, Blue and white acrylic paint, Opal Sea Oats Startburst Spray(Lindy's Stamp Gang), Cream Bake Beige(Lindy's Stamp Gang), Chateau Rose(Lindy's Stamp Gang), Alcohol inks: Hazelnut, Caramel(Ranger), flowers(Prima and my stash), Twine, Papillon Stamp Set(Tim Holtz), Leave Die(Doohickey), Multi-medium matte by Claudine Hellmuth(Ranger), Paint brushes, Jet Black Archival Ink(Ranger)

本部落格裏除了另外註明照片或影片來源的資源，其他使用在部落格中的照片或影片均為我自己拍攝及製作的，版權所有，請勿任意使用或拷貝。

Card Making / Chocolate Love for MHC#15 魔力手作挑戰#15

    Hello! Happy Wednesday.  We finally got lovely sunshine after a coupe of weeks of cold weather and rain. As spring is in the air, it couldn't be better to see sunshine out there.  Today I have a card to share with you. This month, More Handmade Challenge asks participants to make projects with hot cocoa. You can use the shape, the color or the image of  hot cocoa.

    As a big fan of mint chocolate, I know I have to use this color combo on my project. I think it's a good idea to bring some fresh and bright colors in this season. To start off, I  used a triangle shape stencil with Crack Pistachio Distress Ink, and then used Hot Fudge Hybrid Ink from MFT to stamp my sentiments.  I also stamped some splattered images from Hero Arts with a yellow dye ink.

    After finishing my background paper, I died cut a piece of yellow pattern paper with MFT's wonky stitched rectanle die, letters(from PTI) and a polaroid frame(from Maggie Holmes). I also stamped a couple of cute images on a white cardstock, colored with my watercolor, and then fussy cut them out.  After all decorative accents were ready, all I needed to do is to put them together.

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    下了幾個星期的雨，太陽終於露臉了！遲來的春天的氣息，一掃之前的潮濕與陰冷。在寒冷的溫度之下，來杯熱巧克力暖暖身子簡直不要太幸福！

    這個月的魔力手作挑戰的主題是熱可可。一想到熱可可就是巧克力做的，我決定把最愛的薄荷巧克力拿來當作靈感，決定了主色之後，接下來就是找一些搭配的色系和圖案來用。在構思這張卡片的時候其實前前後後搭配了好幾種構圖，因為自製的背景底紙比較複雜，最後決定用比較簡單的圖案來搭配。

    介紹一下這次自製的美編紙，我先用型板刷了薄荷綠的顏色，刷的時候只要這裡一點顏色，那裡一點顏色就好，不用把整張卡紙都刷滿，然後用MFT的松露巧克力印台來蓋所有的字章。

    在蓋的時候，大字章是我的主要重點，所以沾了印台就直接蓋在卡紙上，然後小的長條型字章則是蓋過一次之後直接蓋第二次，讓兩種深淺的咖啡色蓋滿卡紙，又不會因為顏色太重而讓人眼花撩亂。最後我還蓋了一些噴濺的圖案，當然如果你沒有這種印章，直接拿把刷子沾顏料灑一些在卡紙上也可以，我用印章蓋是因為這樣比較好控制。

    由於美編紙已經很花俏了，所以搭配的圖案或圖卡要盡量選用同一個色調的，重點突出的顏色不必很大片，有畫龍點睛的效果就好，這樣才能讓卡片看起來平衡又有抓人眼球的地方。

    FB的粉絲頁上有更多其他手作人的精彩作品，如果你/妳也喜歡手作，歡迎加入魔力手作挑戰，還有彩印在台灣的粉絲社團，一起分享手作和採印的樂趣。

MHC網站:http://mhctw2015.pixnet.net/blog

MHC FB粉絲群:https://www.facebook.com/mhctw/

彩印在台灣FB粉絲群:https://www.facebook.com/groups/stampingintaiwan/1019136041468558/?notif_t=group_activity&notif_id=1459329211431005

本部落格裏除了另外註明照片或影片來源的資源，其他使用在部落格中的照片或影片均為我自己拍攝及製作的，版權所有，請勿任意使用或拷貝。

Supplies:

stamps: Never Say Never(Kesi Art), Coffee Break(Prima), Distressed Pattern(MFT), Everything Pocket Page(TT), 

inks:Hot Fudge Hybrid Ink(MFT), Cracked Pistachio(Tim Holtz), yellow dye ink(), Lagoon(Versa Fine)

Dies: Leaves(Kesi Art), Love Is(Maggie Holmes), Wonky Stitched Rectangle Stax(MFT)

Others: Triangle stencil(Heidi Swapp), watercolor, glitter cardstock, fiber tape, foam tape

Card Making / Mint Flowers for MHC#14

    I love mint and watercolor. It's one of my favorite colors and techniques used on card making. Sometimes when I have free time, I love to play with my watercolor tools. I made this background paper a while ago, but had no idea what I'm gonna do with it, until I came across with More Handmade Challenge #14.

    In this challenge we had to use any green hues as the main theme in cards, scrapbook layouts, mixed media projects and etc. I stamped the floral images with versa mark ink and white embossed them on the watercolored background paper. And then I colored the images again with color pencils to make the embossed images popped out. Finishing with a sentiment and some clear sequins. 

    I just love how the lower florals look like floating on "water".

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我很喜歡薄荷綠的顏色，在這一次的魔力手作挑戰#14裏剛好要以綠色為發想，

因此把之前做好放著沒機會用的水彩背景紙拿來用。

挑選的這組花卉章是來自Altenew這間公司，相信玩彩印的人應該對它不陌生。

印章沾滿浮水印台後蓋在水彩背景紙上，然後用白色凸粉燙凸

再用油性鉛筆描繪燙凸的圖案，讓顏色跳出來

最後蓋上字句章，再點綴一些亮片就完成了

本部落格裏除了另外註明照片或影片來源的資源，其他使用在部落格中的照片或影片均為我自己拍攝及製作的，版權所有，請勿任意使用或拷貝。

Supplies:

Stamp: Beautiful Day by Altenew, Make it Market Kit-Garden Gild by PTI

Ink: versa mark, onyx black by versa fine

Others: watercolor, oil pencils, sequins, white embossing powder by Simon Says Stamps