Monogrammed Basket

Hello Everybody!

Katy here and today I am sharing a project I made for a friend of mine using awesome wood embellishments from the Unique Laser Designs Store.

These are wood embellishments that I used:

Praying Hands in Oval

Butterflies (Small and Large)

UC Copper J-3 Inches

And then I got to the point where my basket needed one more thing: Lock and Key-Fancy.

I found this could little basket at a thrift store for $3.  And it was on sale for half off!  Friends-it really doesn't get any better than that! :)

Here is the inside so it looks like someone painted it-just like I'm gonna do! :)

First I applied a coat (or two!) of gesso.  Then I mixed white and "latte" together to get the base paint for the basket.  Then I sponged a brown over the basket.

So here is my finished basket.

Here is the Lock and Key-I think it is so nice! I inked it red then I put a pink it over it.  The Inka Gold is on the key (I love that stuff!) :)

Here is a close up of the lid.  I added a plastic rose and the canvas flower on the right.  The polka dots are light modeling paste mixed with Pretty in Pink Ink Refill from Stampin' Up.  And the J!

For the J I used glossy accents and the vintage glass glitter from Melissa Francis.  And my friend has 4 kids so I wanted to honor them with little butterflies.

Here is the inside of the lid.  I love the praying hands and cross but I didn't know how to paint it.  So I left it, and I am glad I did. 

Here are the products that I used.  The gloss gel medium is what I use to adhere my wood embellishments.

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Vase Accents

Hello!  Katy here to show you that you can use your Unique Laser Design pieces to make beautiful accents for your vases.

First I covered my vases with jute and butcher's twine.  (The one on the left is jute, right butcher's twine).  I used got glue and general craft glue to adhere each layer of fiber.  I bought my vases at garage sales (50 cents each-Sweet!)  You can use any shape vase you like for this.  You can use old flower vases or old wine bottles, for example.

When I first saw this lock and key, I knew I wanted to hang it.  So when I started on this projects-I was inspired and excited!  I used silver embossing powder for the key and fired brick distress ink and water for the lock.  The designs are so pretty on the lock, so I wanted to use something that would enhance and not take hide those lines.

For the gears (set B) I used copper, platinum, and gold embossing powder.  I glued them to each other using Fabri-Tac glue (not to the vase).  

Here's each vase separately.

I used a ball chain for each of the accents to go on.  It's nice so you can decide how far down you want your accent to hang.

Sometimes it's hard for me to tell how big (or small) things are online.  So just to give these vases some perspective--they measure about 7 and 1/2 inches tall.

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