Every birthday I make Bertie a shadow frame reflecting one of his many growing interests, this year it’s got a Chinese theme to it. He has a library under his bunk style bed where he has an “artefact” shelf where he puts his collection of Chinese bits and pieces, a willow pattern plate, a cup with a geisha girl in the bottom etc. He’s a “funny” boy!
I still have a few of the Poundland frames I got for 25p in one of their Christmas sales a few years back, so it’s quite nice that all his frames match.
I started with cutting a background from an A4 sheet of red corrugated card and proceeded to decorate it.
The handmade printed paper, two fabric patches, label and peel offs came from a big pack of bits and pieces I found in a local charity shop for just £1.50. The patches were still priced at £1.50 each, so I knew I had a bargain in just them alone.
The small, puffy, plastic stickers came from a pack from Paperchase quite a while ago now, but I always knew that they would come in useful one day.
When I was happy with how it all looked I was ready to put it all in the frame ………..
…….. which I also decorated, in the corners, with other gold peel-offs from my bargain pack.
While I was at it, I used the opportunity to repair one of the frames I made for his birthday a couple of years ago as it was looking a little worse for wear, however it took all my powers of persuasion to get Bertie to let me have them for just a couple of days as he said he loved it so much he didn’t want to be without it! What is he like?
I took out a few pieces of the real popcorn, changed the background from white to navy with a few red confetti stars and clusters of three white dots and then added another two layers of white 3D effect paint to make popcorn in the pot stand out a little more. His Lordship was suitably impressed, I think!
