Plaster Flowers Plaque

Here we are, the first of November already !

If you happen to be crafting anything for 

the upcoming holiday season,

we'd like to see it at the

Love To Craft Challenge blog.

We are a month long,

family friendly anything goes craft challenge. 

I'm sharing my design team project for this month today.

It was a wooden hanging heart plaque

that I picked up at a church yard sale fundraiser

this past Spring knowing I wanted to repurpose it somehow.

Although I have oodles of decorative papers in stock,

I wanted to print out a digital paper and element

to use on this hybrid project to show that

digital scrapbooking kits can be used for more

than just scrapbooking.
(NOTE: elements are from a kit by Kimeric Kreations
that were available exclusively at The Digichick.
The designer, Kim, passed away this summer
and the site was taken down. However,  some of her
gorgeous kits will be available once more at
MyMemories! )

Word strip and printed paper

I placed a piece of light weight scrap paper on top

of the wooden heart. I lightly pressed around the edges

of it then ran the side of a pencil lead along it to get 

the shape of the heart. I cut the pattern out then traced it on the

back of the printed patterned paper. I cut it slightly larger

knowing I was going to "distress" the edges. 

I cut a piece of chipboard to fit behind the word strip.

This gave it a bit of dimension when it was glued on

top of the patterned paper. 

This was my first attempt at making
plastered silk flowers - a messy process !
Simply dunk the "silk" flowers into plaster
mixed according to the package directions.
Work fast since plaster starts drying quickly.
They may need shaped a bit when laying them out
on wax paper to dry. Allow at least 24 hours to dry.

I think I need more practice with this technique ;)

I used paper punched pieces of white card stock

to fill in among the plaster florals.

Thanks for looking =)