I’m not big on Christmassy crockery. Oh, you’re not shocked are you?
Well, I’m not. So normally I wouldn’t go near it, but then I discovered
Porcelaine: a range of paints you can use on porcelain, ceramic and
metal and thought I’d give subtle and stylish a go. You draw (or paint –
there are various applications) on a dish, a plate, a cup, a platter,
leave to dry for 24 hours, then pop it in the oven for 35 minutes and
you have a brand new decorative piece with your own stamp on it.
All you need is an oven-proof piece plate/bowl etc (this was a dollar from Woollies), the paint (around $8 from Spotlight/Lincraft or online here at Art Materials) and a motif. I just made mine up and painted it freehand, but I’m sure you could use a stencil. And so, the big (!) reveal…
choc peanuts are going, going
gone!
It’s meant to be a folkish snowflake. Or
something. I practiced on the larger platter first, but it looks best on
a round dish. And so, here is my token Christmas crockery! Perfect for
nuts and lollies.
And in the top picture are all the pretty Christmassy things I bought from kikki.K
today. I went in to get a binder in an attempt to organise my tax stuff
and left with wrapping paper, cards, a stamp set and pencil cases for
my school-bound neices. And no binder. But look how purdy it all is. Add
to it kraft paper, red ribbon and some gift tags and that’s my
Christmas wrap wrapped up! kikki-k’s online store has free shipping
until Sunday for Australian customers who spend $100 or more – enter the
code AUSHIP at the checkout. But if you fall in love with all the
Swedish stationery goodies and live in, say, Sweden, no worries! They
ship internationally.
How are you wrapping your pressies this year?
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I love those ceramic paint pens!
I went basics this year.. brown paper (thickish stuff).. and then beautiful gift wrap (some music notes and some folk/floral and wrapped a band around the gift in the giftwrap.. and then a ribbon, tied in a simple knot.
I bought a product which you add water to and it turns into ’snow’ apart from not being cold and wet.. it is the most snow like stuff i have ever seen.. I bought a huge box of it and should be able to make several buckets of snow to decorate the tree area.. so traditional gifts and white christmas feel for this year. Santa’s elves come and decorate our house on Saturday night so we will wake up to winter wonderland sunday morning. Can’t wait!
I’ve wrapped up my gifts up this year similar to you with kraft paper and red/white bakers twine.
And wowser, your illustrative style is so pretty! well done on the ceramics =)
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