Shabby Box Step by step for Lindys

Hey Gang!
A few months ago I made a Shabby Box, many crafters asked me to prepare a turorial for explaining how I made it, so here it is Step by Step.



First you need to prime the wooden box with white gesso.
Next spread graphite texture paste through a stencil.


Dry Brush with white gesso and spread some white crackle paste.


After the cracks appear the fun part starts: color the Box with Time Travel Teal and Cowabunga Copper Magical Shakers, diluated with a bit of water.


To get a Shabby and even look dry brush using white gesso. 


Time to decorate the lid with your favorite shabby embellishments.
I hot embossed a few Chibpoards with Imperial crown purple gold EP and Desert Moon Copper Teal EP .


As soon as everything is glued and dry, add splashes of Time Travel Teal and Cowabanga Copper Shimmer Sprays


To get a softer look add to the embellishments Spalshes of Frozen Jack Frost Magical Shaker diluated with water


Almost done... add glitter here and there and Voila!






Hope you like it! 

Lindy’s Products

• Starburst Sprays: Time Travel Teal and Cowabanga Copper
• Magical Shakers: Frozen Jack Frost Magical Shaker, Time Travel Teal and Cowabunga Copper
• EP: Imperial crown purple gold EP and Desert Moon Copper Teal EP

Other products

• Decoart White Crackler texture paste, Finnabair White heavy gesso, Prima Marketing flowers, metal embellishments and stencil, Scrapiniec Chipboards

Thank you so much for your attention! xoxo
Have a wonderful day,

Believe in magic - 3 techniques For Lindy's

Hey gang!

Sharing today new Step by Step created for Lindy's - a Mixed Media  Canvas, featuring some techniques like coloring Acrylic Pebbles, Glitz spritz to color molds prints and Frozen Jack Frost Spray for dry brush effect.

So let's start with the Step by Step:

I had this composition in mind and I thought a Flat Canvas will be the suitable base for it!

First I adhered to the flat canvas pieces of construction mesh in the center where the composition will take place. I did it using gel medium

With a Spatula I spread, unevenly, White Crackel Paste and left it for a few hours .

After the cracks were made I glued the composition with Gel Medium. I used in the composition a clay fram, lots of metal embellishments and chipboards. I left it again to dry for a few hours. I always work in some projects the same time so when one is "resting" I can work on another one.

Covered all composition with white gesso.

Picked 3 gorgeous sprays: Magnolia Magenta Gold Shimmer Spray, Wild Honeysuckle Coral Shimmer Spray and Peony Scarlet Red Shimmer Spray. I sprayed with them one beside the other and only a little bit on top. I wanted the composition to be darker than the rest of the canvas

With the I made splashes. Smallers on the composition and Biggers on the Canvas. It's important to dry it before the next step.

To give more interest to the project I sprayed a little bit with my new love: Bling-y Blonde Shimmer Spray Dry with a heating gun or let it dry Naturally.
In my last post I explained the Dry Brushing technique with White Heavy Gesso, here I want to show you can achieve Dry Brush effect with the Frozen Jack Frost Spray. In this project I used both: On the composition elements I used the White Gesso and on the base I used the Spray.

Here's another great technique: to color my Acrylic Pebbles I mixed Gel medium with California Poppy Gold and Autum Mapel Crimson  Shakers. I than brushed the pebbles from both sides with the mixture. When both sides were dry I add it to the Canvas.

I decided I want to spray the Chipboard sentiment, and not emboss it as I usually do. So to get a perfect shimmeri color I first gave it a white gesso cover.

And sprayed it with Red Hot Poker OrangeShimmer Spray. You can see how gorgeous it is...

Brushed the pebbles with white gesso

Before coloring clay mold print we have to give it a clear gesso or gel medium cover.


I discovered some time ago a very easy technique to give mold prints an antique look - spray it with Glitz Spritz Spray. The Glitz Spritz is Basicly Shimmer so when we spray it the shimmer goes into all slots and give us the antique look, perfect for most kinds of projects. I used here the Medieval Gold Glitz Spritz.

Last, but not list, I've added a little bit of glitter to the project.

Hope you enjoyed the process as much I did creating it!

Here are some more pictures.

Have a wonderful day xoxo

Lindy's products:
Sprays - Frozen Jack Frost Shimmer Spray, Medieval Gold Glitz Spritz, Wild honeysuckle coral Shimmer Spray, Magnolia Magenta Gold Shimmer Spray Peony Scarlet Red Shimmer Spray, Bling-y Blonde Shimmer Spray, Red Hot Poker OrangeShimmer Spray.
Shakers - Autum Mapel Crimson, California Poppy Gold

Shadow box for Retro Kraft Shop

Hi guys,

I'm sharing today a Shadow Box I've created with all gorgeous pastes, papers, molds, mediums and embellishments I like the best!

The shadow box was first painted with all paste from the patina Paste set. In order to get the best result of this set, after painting all 3 colors, you need to go over, slightly, with each one of them again and give it a natural look.

After drying I started the fun part: adding all Paper, embellishment etc.

 I adhered, on top of the shadow box, the gorgeous clock from this IOD Mold I use everywhere. Before adhering, It was painted it with Jade Impasto and Red Amber Antique Brilliance Wax. 

I used many Embellishments like the Gorgeous Metal gear , Resin seashells, Caribou moss and Glass bottles.  You can find most of them at the Embellishments section.

Most chipboard cogs and gears and the Chipboard stars  were painted with Finnabair's Rust paste set.

Here are some more photos:

Hope I've inspired you to make a gorgeous shadow box of your own! xoxo

I used: