Hello everyone!

Donna here with an Easter project using some of the new Laserowe products available to buy in store at Swedish House Crafts.

I decorated the MDF Easter egg on a stand. I painted the egg and base with white gesso, and once dry I decorated it with one of the new Laserowe Love paper collections. This one is called 'Yellow Spring'. The colours, and designs in this collection are so lush! One of the sheets has gorgeous images of daffodils on it. I chose to cut around one of the daffodil designs, and adhered it between my flower arrangement.

The chipboard Easter egg with flowers is also part of the new collection. I painted it with white gesso, and adhered it beside the flower arrangement.

Here is a closer look at the arrangement. I'm really happy with how the flowers turned out.

If you have never tried making your own flowers using  foamiran dies then why not have a go? It takes time, but it's very addictive once you have mastered the techniques 😊

I have decorated the base with Laserowe Yellow Spring rabbits in love. I painted the rabbits with white gesso. I made stands for the back of them using what was left over from the chipboard. I adhered some artificial moss, and some art stones to the base, and then adhered the rabbits on top.

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Links to products I used:
Laserowe Love - MDF - Egg - On - Stand
Laserowe Love - Yellow Spring - Complete Collection
Laserowe Love - Chipboards - Lili Of The Valley - Background
Laserowe Love - Chipboards - Yellow Spring - Easter Eggs With Flowers
Laserowe Love - Yellow Spring - Rabbits In Love
Foamiran 0.6mm 002 Ecru - Approx 30cm x 35cm
Lady E Dies - Leaves 002
Lady E Dies - Tiny Flowers

just one of a fabulous range of MDF products available to alter or decorate and what's more the prices are reasonable  too.

As you know I'm into Mixed Media at the moment. So, I first painted all the pieces with some Studio white Gesso. When dry I assembled all the pieces together, gluing them with some strong hold acrylic glue, I checked the roof pieces before gluing to make sure they fit in the right way then leave to dry.

While the House dried I took one of the Laserowe Love Lily of the Valley background chip boards and cut a section of it off. This I then painted with a layer of Gesso then leave this to dry too.

When dry, glue the chipboard to the left hand side bottom corner. Glue the heart around the hole which is also Heart shaped, line them up as good as you can. Then again leave to dry, when dry take some texture paste, mine was handmade and I simply added some thickly on the top of the heart by dabbing the texture paste and lifting the paste to get the above effect. I did the same steps with the MDF bird. At the same time glue the piece of MDF that the Bird sits on. I used hot Glue to add this.

Next I added some acrylic paint by Dusty Attic here and there on my Bird House. I watered the paint down a little with some water and also sprayed some with a water spray too, do this as many times as you wish to get the effect and depth you want. I also painted the Bird with this watered down paint, after I added some background colouring with some of the soft pastel.

Taking some 0.6 white Foamiran I die cut some Hydrangea flowers out of the Lady E design hydrangea 5 die, these I then coloured with some soft pastels added with a damp wet wipe. Don't have your wipe too wet or it will not have depth to the colour. I glued a stamen into the centre and shaped the petals towards the stamen with my fingers.

After gluing some Cheesecloth on to part of the roof section I arranged some of my Hydrangea flowers. I then die cut some of the Lady E design leaf die out using 0.6 Olive green Foamiran. I added a hint of soft pastel colour to the edges before gluing in place on the Bird House roof.

For a little added interest I glued one Hydrangea flower onto the heart. Add some cheesecloth up the side of the Bird House to give a little texture, then add some Art Stones and mini Art Stones over the top. On the section under the roof I just added the Art Stones straight onto the MDF with out adding the Cheesecloth first.

Glue a feather onto the ledge then the Bird over the feather. Add some more Hydrangea flowers and another leaf under the ledge to finish the Bird House off.

Links to products I used:

Laserowe Love -  MDF 3D Birdhouse

Laserowe Love  Chipboard - Background Lily Of The Valley

0.6 White Foamiran

0.6 Olive Green Foamiran

Lady E Design - Hydrangea 5 die

Happy Crafting!!!

Hugs Liz xx

Today we have Paper Nest Doll Emma Bunny - so cute just like all her friends!

Celine coloured her beautifully as always and she used:-

Skin: E13, 11, 21, 00, 000, R21, 20 
Hair: E37, 35, 34, 31 
Clothing: Y15, 13, R85, 83, 81 
Chick: Y19, 15, 13, 21 
Cart: E99, 97, YR14

You can find her here in the store.

Happy Crafting Swedish House Crafts.

I've used a MDF large Egg which I have decorated in a mixed media style, then used some of the fantastic new chip boards which are new in store too. I added some handmade Foamiran flowers and leaves too. I have made a small tutorial on how I made the flowers and leaves for you.

Making the foamiran flowers

Snowdrop type flowers

I made up some snowdrop type flowers out of white 0.6 foamiran and the Lady E Design dies Leaves 002 using the smallest size, for the leaves I used the Flower 002 die die using the smallest leaf die,

Both of these dies are larger then what I finished up with, the way to get them smaller is to pop the cut out flowers one at a time against a fairly hot iron, turn the iron on to the start of the three dots or the cotton setting, place the flower head against the iron with a wooden skewer or something similar as the iron is very hot and you need to hold the flower against it for a few minutes.

Simply hold the skewer against the centre of the flower head then watch the foamiran shrink, keep it held against the iron till you get the size you want, or in this case till it stops shrinking. Then carefully lift the skewer away from the iron with the end of the skewer still on the flower head and the flower will curl upwards, let if fall off the iron and shape gently with your fingers.

The leaves are done in a similar way. Hold the die cut leaf, (this one has three leaves on the one die) against the hot iron with the skewer, again watch it shrink, when shrunk as much as it will, carefully take away the skewer. The shrunk leaf will fall off the iron or if not remove it very carefully again with the skewer, at this stage you can scrunch the leaves between your fingers if you wish.

Take a piece of floral wire, bend over one end with a pair of pliers or a jewellery tool to form a closed loop. Make a hole in the middle of your shrunken shaped flower and thread the wire through, so the looped end is last then glue the flower head to the beginning  of the loop. Take your shrunken leaves and wrap them around the wire at the bottom so they have the look of mine above.

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Daffodil Type flowers

Taking the Lady E Design dies leaves 002 and using the middle sized one cut out as many as you wish to use out of lemon 0.6 Foamiran. I kept mine simple but you could use a mould for a little texture. Fold the petals of one flower head together, then scrunch between your fingers for a couple of seconds. This makes the foam a little softer and adds a little shape, do the same steps for the other ones too.

I then cut a strip of the same Lemon foamiran roughly 6mm wide. Take a pair of fancy edged scissors and cut along the length one one edge, add a little colour on this edge with any medium you use. I used soft pastel on mine but you could us oil pastels etc too.

Wrap the strip around a large pen or something circular and cut the length off, then glue the ends together. I used super glue for this, be careful of your fingers.

Take the made up circle and glue it onto the base of the flowers again using super glue or similar, let set.Take some stamens and add these to the middle of the flowers.

Ta Da with a little handmade extras you get a Daffodil type flower out of the same die set as you used for the Snowdrops.

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Now the Egg

I first coated the egg with white Gesso. Then when dry I scrunched a piece of tissue paper up, I  slightly flattened it out and glued it over the  dried Gesso onto the egg. Let this dry a little then simply tear off the excess around the edges, making sure the tissue is stuck , press lightly over the top with your fingers if needed.

I then added the gorgeous chip board background to the top section. This I simply cut down to shape after gluing it on ( cuts easily with a pair of scissors). I painted mine with Finnabair sparks paints.

I then decided to decorate the base section, which was first painted with white Gesso. I missed out the tissue paper just painting the base with the same sparks paints.

Taking the fence chipboard I added a layer of Gesso but I dabbed it on with a piece of foam, this gives a little texture. The fence had some pots or cups on but I didn't want these on so I simply cut them off before painting it, the cockerel was also attached but this I left on. I then painted these when dry with a few colours of distress inks.

Fix the MDF egg onto the painted MDF base, then glue on the  the chipboard fence, leave to set.

I glued some of my Snowdrop type flowers on the other side of the base, then added some feathers from my stash. I also had some mini glittery eggs so I glued this on top of some Sisal to look like eggs on a nest.

I added another Cockerel at the front of the base then added some more flowers and another glittery egg in front of the chip board fence.

Lastly I glued the Daffodils onto the egg on the left hand side to finish it off.

Links to Products I used:

Laserowe Love chipboard - Yellow Spring - Rooster on Fence 

MDF - Egg on stand

Laserowe Love chipboard - Lily of the background

0.6 Foamiran - Lemon

0.6 Foamiran - White

0.6 Foamiran Dark Green

Lady E Design dies

Leaves 002

Flower 002

I've loved making this project, if you do one too be sure to share it with us, we'd love to see it.

Happy Crafting!!!

Hugs Liz xx