Steampunk Spells Love Potion Apothecary

A lovely little apothecary made with lots of Graphic 45 goodness.  Please enjoy some pictures along with a few tips, or scroll down to the bottom and catch a video tour below!

Graphic 45 Products used:

Steampunk Spells 8x8

Steampunk Spells 12 x12

Steampunk Spells 6x6 Pattern and Solids

Steampunk Spells Card Stock Stickers

Steampunk Spells Card stock Alphabet Stickers

Steampunk Spells Card stock Banners

Some of the other Items Used:

Small Bottles

Matte Medium

Bits of junk from my stash

Alcohol Inks (used to dye the corks)

Distress Stain and Ink in Broken China and Black Soot

Mica Flakes

This Graphic 45 project evolved from the scraps I had lying on my work room table.  I was looking at the Card stock sticker sheet, when I realized that the small words would fit perfectly on some teeny tiny bottles I had on hand.  Before I knew it I was altering bottles like crazy and searching for curious items to add to my apothecary.

I decided upon a white house shaped shadow box that I had picked up at a garage sale for a dollar.

To give the project a good base I started with black gesso.  A layer of copper gilders paste was added to the edges of the wood.

On the inside I used scraps of Steampunk Spells paper along with matte medium, distress stain in blue and mica flakes.

Inside the bottles I used all kids of fun things like sand, glitter and embossing powder. Most of the labels were created from the Card stock Sticker Sheet and a bit of black soot distress ink.  

To create interest in each little cubby, I was sure to include several bottles all at different heights. Remember too, that odds work best!

I just love how it turned out!  This is probably one of my favorite projects to date.   I hope that you too will now look at the scraps of paper lying on your work table in a different way.  For more tips and a closer look here is a quick video tour.

Cheers, 

Rhea

Graphic 45 Design Team Call Audition 2013

It occurred to me today to try and use some of the "luck of the Irish" of St Patrick's Day to assist in today's application for Graphic 45's current design team call.  I seriously love the products made by this company and I think it shows in my work.  In this post I will highlight a six of my favorite projects, with lots of Graphic 45 products to be seen. 



The letterbox tray above is one of the top posts on my blog and I have also seen it many times on Pinterest.  Here I used one of my favorite papers, Old Curiosity Shoppe.   I think Steampunk Debutante is my next runner up and it is the focal on the next two projects. 



This large mosaic piece hangs in my dining room and I really love it.  It was so hard at the time to use up all those cool gears, but now I get to enjoy them in my art every day.

The book below is another great piece.  Here I finished off all of my paper left over from the project above.  Inside the envelope book are lots of great tags and inserts. 

I would have to say that assemblage is probably my favorite medium to work in.  This next project is a very fun Halloween Assemblage piece that also gets lots of traffic here.  My Steampunk Apothecary employs a very nice collection of different Graphic 45 papers.  I used the Kraft Reflections, Old Curiosity Shoppe and Halloween in Wonderland.  Amazing how seamlessly they all work together.



It was hard to choose between two different Birdsong projects I have recently done. 







Since I could not decide on which one, I ended up choosing to include them both. 





Thank you as always for tuning in.  I hope the luck of the Irish is with you today too!

Cheers,

Rhea