Papercrafts, mixed media and foamiran flower projects to inspire

Friday 22 November 2019


Today I am sharing with you a how to for the wonderful company Mitform_Castings. I know the pieces may be more expensive than some metal embellishments but they are absolutely worth every penny - they add weight to the project giving a luxurious feel that lighter embellishments do not deliver. I love them in mixed media pieces when I can add lots of them but even a single one on a card will add magic to your pieces. In England they are available from I Love Mixed Media and from Craft all Day Long - both companies have facebook pages and websites and in Ireland they are available from Mixed Media Place.

I enjoy using beautiful papers and making 3D pieces of home decor and so at this time of year what could be more perfect than a decorated Christmas tree.


Here I have used an MDF base by woodouts and papers from Craft O'clock called singing in the snow to provide a base on which to show case the Christmas Mitform pieces.













I covered MDF base with papers from the pack adhering them with gel medium. I then added layers of muslin and lace to give the appearance of a tree festooned with garlands, again using gel medium to stick everything down.





When adding embellishments I tend to start with the biggest items first so I selected a number of mitform pieces and glued them as shown.











I them spent a little while cutting out elements from the cut apart sheets that come with the paper pack. The floral elements and baubles were given dimension using a selection of different sized ball tools.





The fussy cut elements were added to the front of my Christmas tree with little glittery foam balls added to the centers of the flowers and scattered around like little snow balls.










The back of the piece was covered with papers and layered with more paper elements.



A pile of fussy cut presents and more Mitform pieces were placed at the bottom of the tree.





Finally the tree was edged with a snow affect paste before the whole tree and embellishments were given a dusting of snow by dry brushing on more of the snow paste
I hope that some of you will have ago at making this project and wish you and your family a love filled holiday.

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