MDF Frame & Sheena Douglass Stamp

Today I want to share with you a frame made featuring a gorgeous stamp by Sheena Douglass that I was lucky enough to get my hands of recently!  I chose to colour it with alcohol markers but it really would look great used plain, or inked with distress inks!
              

      

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I used the following materials:

STAMP USED
Sheena Douglass "Ancient Arches" from Crafters Companion
(Stamped onto Sheena Douglass White Stamping Card, coloured with Promarkers)
         

THAT CRAFT PLACE MDF / GREYBOARD
MDF Frame
MDF Circles (from an off-cut bag)
That Craft Place Website

DIES USED
Leane Creatief - Multi Flowers #5
Sizzix Butterfly
Buff-It Craft Polish - Slate
    
MEDIUMS USED
Cosmic Shimmer - Shimmer Paint - Rich Oak
Americana Triple Thick
Collall 3D Glue Gel
Cosmic Shimmer Glue
Golden Gel Medium

OTHER PRODUCTS USED
Microbeads
Flower Stamens
Creative Expressions Dazzlers
Craft Wire
Flower by Petal Lu
                        

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Painting with Shimmer Paints, the MDF frame doesn't need pre-gessoing!
At the same time as painting the frame, I painted a couple of pieces of plain cardstock
with the same paint, to die cut the flowers from later!

               

     

The Sheena Douglass White Stamping Card takes alcohol markers so so well! I drew a little silhouetted man in the blue archway, then added Triple Thick Gloss Glaze to that area.

           

     

The tiny flower is handmade by Petal Lu (link above) and fitted perfectly into this tiny glass dome!  Collall 3D Glue Gel worked perfectly for gluing the cap to the dome as well as for glueing the dome into it's base.  I then used craft wire to suspend the dome from the frame after first ageing the wire with a candle flame.

 

      

The butterfly die comes as 2 parts and I added microbeads to the body of the butterfly before painting them with more of the Buff-It craft polish.

             

   

These flowers came with the same die set as the flowers and leaves used at the bottom of the frame (details in the materials list above).  Adding stamens really finishes them nicely.

          

      

As with the flowers in the photo above, these were die cut from cardstock painted to match the frame.  I then distressed with an embossing tool to soften the fibres in the card and crumpled the flowers before adding Buff-It craft polish.  The flowers are finished with crystal-like gems.

    

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Thank you as always for popping by.
    

xxSAMxx