This Diorama is one of the newer selections in our store, and it's my new favorite piece to work with. The possibilities are endless for decorating in any theme you like. This is a large piece at 5" wide, 5"deep and around 7" tall. When assembled, the Diorama provides a spacious triangular shaped niche on each of the four sides for you to decorate. The top of the piece also provides a really large space. This piece also comes with a lazy susan pedestal to attach to the bottom so it will turn. I chose not to use the rotating base and opted to add some Tim Holtz feet instead. I wanted my creation to have a wintery vintage Victorian feel, and I thought that the ornate feet best reflected the look I was after.
After I assembled the piece, I gave it a light coat of gesso. I papered the inside of the niches with canvas resist by Prima Finnabair Elementals in a music note pattern. I needed two sheets and had scraps left over. I stenciled over the canvas using a snowflake stencil, first with Prima Chalk Ink in Old Rose, and then I used the same snowflake stencil with sparkle texture paste. I added some gesso with a dry fan shaped brush here and there to distress.
I covered the vertical framework of the piece with crackle texture paste, and distressed it with some gesso and a little light pink acrylic paint, and a little buttermilk acrylic paint. The horizontal framework was covered with a sequined eyelash trim I got on ebay and had been hoarding.
The chipboard shapes were embossed with Stampendous shabby embossing powders in cream and in white.
The Victorian winter images were mostly freebies I found on Pinterest, along with a collage sheet from Gecko Galz called Christmas Icons.
Thanks for looking!
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This is really fabulous Nancy! How neat to be able to turn it to change the scenery. You did a great job on this. I'm amazed.
ReplyDeleteWow, really wonderful and romantic. That's a great christmas inspiration!! Greetings, Kerstin
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