Hello Michele here from www.briarpatchprim.com well its really been a busy month with all the changes my business has been going through, but now I am comfortably settled into my home office and be…
I love grungy candles. But even moreso, I love flameless candles. My love began when my kids were little: Cave toddlers and open flames ...
I needed a tutorial on grungy eggs, but my go to blog for that project is being revamped. Now what? Well, I did what I needed to do.......figure it out and make my own for future references. Disclaimer: I am not a professional grundy egg maker or tutorial maker. My eggs were really pushing the limits of grundy almost into ugly, but in the end I am satisfied with how they look in their proper setting. Bonus: My hands smell wonderful and my house smells like I've been cooking up something very delicious. You are going to need plastic easter eggs that have the holes in the top or bottom, ground cloves, toothpicks, a small dish, melted wax (preferably a wax that is white, tan, or brown), a cooling rack with something under it. I also found later that I needed cotton swabs and a fine sifter. I am not patient enough to wait for hours for the wax to melt on the candle plate so if you start out with cool water and put your glass container in it to heat up all together on med low the glass won't crack. It only took 15 minutes to melt with a very slight simmer. Take a toothpick and insert the end of it into an egg then quickly submerge it fully into the melted wax. Hurry and get it out or the egg will fill up inside with the wax. You are not going to get great results in covering the egg unless you have a ton of cloves in your dish. I was trying to be conservative because I only had a small bottle of it. If you can, get a big bottle of cloves and make it pretty deep in the the dish and it will be so much easier for you. Working quickly before the wax sets cover as much of the egg as you can. I found that I actually needed to pick of the cloves and push them in and onto the egg. It was more like molding it how I wanted it to look. Some areas needed more while some needed less. *Note: If you're thinking of filling up a ziplock back with the cloves and then dropping the egg into it for a good shaking like you do your chicken, don't do it. It does not work. The wax sticks to the insides of the bag and the cloves clump up.....big mess. Sometimes wax will drip into the cloves and set. It makes it nearly impossible to cover the egg or pick the cloves to push them on if there are chunks in it. Just fine sieve them out and throw them back into the hot melted wax. If you melted your wax via stovetop and find it is setting while your working, then put the container back in the hot water for a few minutes. By this time your workspace and hands will be a complete mess, you might be wondering what the heeeell you are doing, and your eggs might be very ugly. Just stick with it and keep creating. There will be parts of your egg that need re waxing because it set before you got spices on it. Just take a cotton swap and transfer melted wax to the spots you need to cover. Keep adding wax and covering spaces until it looks how you want it to. The last step is to brush off all the existing spices that are not set into the wax. See, they really will be o.k.. Once you get them in a proper setting I think they look just fine. Good luck!
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These bottles turned out so wonderful! Now you can make your own witch potion bottles for the upcoming season! You will receive the pattern to make these wonderful grungy potion bottles to tuck into your old farm cupboard or amongst your Halloween décor! Images on the bottles are included in the pattern. Pattern is in PDF format.
SUPPLIES: GLASS JARS MODGE PODGE (OR ELMER'S GLUE) INSTANT COFFEE OR GROUND SPICES Pour instant coffee granules into a large bowl (you can use a plate or cookie sheet-whatever. Coat the jar with modge podge, one section at a time and then roll/push it into the coffee granules-bang the jar to get off the loose coffee...Do each section and then let it sit overnight. Then coat again with modge podge and roll again in coffee granules...Let dry overnight. Do this as many times as you want for the look you want. Just a few notes: ALOT of the granules will fall off and after the first application you'll still be able to brush them off when dry-DON'T DO IT! Coat for the 2nd time and roll again. As the modge podge mixes with the granules it will make the modge podge DARK as it dries...kinda looks like molasses but dried...You can see in the pic the parts that look like that. After you are satisfied with the look and it's dry, coat one more time to "seal" with modge podge.... (I didn't do this part tho...A TINY TINY amount of coffee "dust" came off when I ran my hands over the jar so I'm thinking if you coated one final time it'd be "sealed" really good) You could try this with cinnamon or other ground spices too-or mix the coffee/cinnamon together...You might need to do one round of the coffee and then the next time do cinnamon as when the coffee gets wet it tends to dissolve a bit.... You will notice that some of it will slide down the jar-don't put too thick of a coat of modge podge on the jar or it WILL slide down-remember it's like spray painting-a few light coats is better than one drippy heavy one! I did not use anything to "prep" the jar, I did not do the inside of the jar either... You could print out your vintage picture or label and glue it on the jar then do the grunging around the label...I havn't tried that either. These would be really cool with prim fabric flowers in them...or candles...I have this one sitting on my counter with a votive in it-looks very cool-hard to capture the "glow" on camera tho... My friend Rilda used a similar method for grubbying up those tacky electic candles you can buy around Christmas time...Here are her directions and some pics to go along with it... Coat the candle stick in modge podge and rub on different spices (Ground cinnamon, allspice, clove etc...). When it dries completely, coat with more Modge Podge and another coating of spices. This is the before-plain white... After the 2nd coat had dried completely, she painted the brass bases with a bit of black paint. Aren't these great looking?? She added some "pizazz" by adding a tie, some berries and the cute tags! And yet ANOTHER version from Rilda...Instead of spices she used glitter on this candle. You could use glass glitter or mica also...Isn't it beautiful?
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A list of beautifully designed retro vintage Photoshop tutorials for learning and inspiration.
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In this tutorial, I will show the steps I took to create this awesome grungy style artwork with Vexel Hair in Photoshop. Have a try!
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