Guest Post - Key Cupboard by Lisa Winnard

This week's guest post is by Lisa Winnard, who has cleverly taken an MDF key cupboard and altered it into this beautiful piece of home decor. This is quite a long post, but I know you are going to enjoy it.

List of Materials:

Chocolate Baroque Butterfly Flourish Swirls

Distress Inks - Weathered Wood, Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers, Iced Spruce, Black Soot

Black Stazon Ink

Clear embossing powder

FlitterGlu or similar adhesive

Brighton Pier gilding flakes

300gsm card

Paper and foam flowers

Bees wax

Melting pot

Rusty Keys

Metal lock & key embellishment

Natural twine and ribbon

Other metal and glass embellishments

Dries clear glue

Hot glue gun

Sponge/Cut n Dry foam

1. Remove all the fittings on the MDF key cupboard, sand and paint with a coat of gesso, then a coat of light coloured emulsion paint. 

2. Colour the cupboard with Distress Inks. I chose Weathered Wood, Evergreen Bough, PeacockFeathers and Iced Spruce to work with. 

3. Using the Butterfly Flourish Swirls stamp set, randomly ink areas of the large butterfly stamp with Distress Ink and the un-inked areas with FlitterGlu. Stamp the image on the inside back of the cupboard. (This creates a half inked/half sticky stamped image.) Cover the image with Brighton Pier gilding flakes and remove excess. 

4. Stamp the smaller leafy swirl on the inside back top part of the cupboard using the same technique.

5. Stamp the larger leafy swirl on the outside sides of the key cupboard and use the corner swirls to stamp on the outside top, using the same ink/glue technique. 

6. Stamp the corner swirls on the door of the cupboard using Black Stazon Ink, don’t press too hard to create a distressed look. Randomly dab FlitterGlu on to the cupboard door using a sponge/Cut n Dry foam and cover with the gilding flakes. 

7. Stamp the butterfly stamp on to 300gsm card using Black Soot Distress Ink. Heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Cut out the butterflies and colour them with Distress Ink to match the colour of the cupboard. 

8. Colour some paper and foam flowers with chosen colour of Distress Ink and dip them in bees wax using a melting pot. Glue some of the flowers on to metal plate embellishments.

9. Using a metal lock and key embellishment, dab some FlitterGlu randomly and add the flakes. Tie together using some natural twine and tie around the door knob of the cupboard.  

10. Using a hot glue gun, arrange and adhere a selection of metal embellishments on to the top and door of the cupboard. Add some natural thread ribbon to create texture. Add rusty keys to the inside of the cupboard. Add the cut out butterflies. 

11. Replace key cupboard fitting to finish.

A huge thank you from us Lisa for contributing this stunning project, I'm sure you will want to show your thanks by sharing your comments here. If you would like to see more of Lisa's artwork then please visit her blog - Lisa Makes