hi everyone its Keren here and welcome back to my channel today I have a brand
new tutorial where I outer mirror this is a handheld mirror that I altered
using the Prima marketing midnight garden collection as soon as I saw this
collection I knew I want to create a mirror I don't know why but it really
made me think of that type of project and I took one of these mirrors and I
decided to alter it using some of the papers I love this collection it's so so
beautiful it has beautiful deep red colors and all I did is take is buy a
cheap mirror from the dollar store this is a plastic mirror and all I did is
just trace it around the paper I used one of the papers from the collection it
has beautiful flowers in the background and I just traced it and cut it so I
could glue it to the background almost like decoupage it to the background the
hard part of working with a mirror is that it reflects everything so you're
gonna notice that in many different places you see some styles you see my
camera because it reflects the camera when I turn it around or you can see
some of the areas in my room as I'm moving the mirror around it was also
really hard to take a picture of it at the end because I was trying to not get
anything in the background I use 3d matte gel to glue this piece that I cut
to the back of the mirror it really changed the whole look of the mirror
once I glued it you can also use soft gel for this as well that's the 3d gel
is what I had at hand and it doesn't really matter which one you use as long
as you glue it and then use some type of tool to really flatten out the gel so it
doesn't give you any bumps in this case I just used my hands and firmly pressed
all over the back of the mirror to make sure that any bumpy glue will just come
out from the sides whatever glue came out I just used to seal the background
and see all the papers so if it gets wet when you're using it in the bathroom you
can make sure that it will seal the paper and it will not
with any water damage so the gel really helps for that and it's good to seal it
off everywhere I heat set the gel really well because I wanted to work on the
front of a mirror and I really didn't have patience to wait I wanted to add a
little bit of that same flowery pattern in the front so I cut only a handle and
glued it in the front part of the mirror to create that flowery pattern in the
handle of the mirror as well I took some heavy black gesso from Prima
and using a paintbrush painted around the edges of the mirror I just wanted to
paint the plastic so I could add some wax everywhere as well I did this both
front and back including the edges of the mirror and Here I am peeking you can
see me in the mirror reflection so it's really cute because it kind of gives you
an idea of where I'm sitting and what I'm doing to finish the distressed look
of the mirror I took to a different type of waxes one of them is the fire ruby
and the other one is the aged brass and using my finger I started adding some of
the color to the edges of the mirror so this way it defined everything and made
it look as if it's part of the background
I loved combining these two colors because they really look together and
match the midnight garden collection the aged brass specifically matched the foil
accents that these papers have I continued adding it in the front as well
and even took the aged brass and added it in the edges of the mirror and also
in the front over the plastic since I had covered everything in black gesso it
really took the wax really well but it would have probably done it anyways
because this wax goes on any type of material but it looks better when it's
on black gesso it has a better grip when you use it on black gesso so all I did
is outline the mirror that way it really looked like it matched the midnight
garden collection now it was time to embellish the mirror
I fussy cut some beautiful flowers from the same paper had used for the
background and I also took some die-cuts that come in the collection like the
ephemera and also some real flowers that match the collection as well as some
die-cut feathers I fussy cut some of the feathers from another one of the
midnight Guardian papers and I also had some die-cuts that I used as well some
of the foiled pieces would look really good with this embellishment so I really
like adding those as well it reminded me of some type of 1920s
mirror with the feathers and the beautiful flowers once I figure out the
arrangement I took the 3d gel and glued everything
to the background I love using the matte gel because that way you don't see
anything once it dries the glue dries clear what I like about this medium is
that it's so versatile you can use it to decoupage but you can also use it to
glue embellishments and even to go through a stencil to create patterns
since the embellishments were hanging out from the bottom of the mirror I
thought it would look ugly to have it in the back the way it did so what I did is
I took some black gesso and just painted the back of the embellishments all the
different pieces of papers that were sticking out to kind of make them match
out you could take some of the same paper and cut out pieces or just add
feathers looking the other way and matching the other side but all I did is
just take a little bit of black gesso and just add it through the background
that way I could add some of the wax and make it match the rest of the
embellishments I mean this is a temporary solution most of the time
people will be holding the mirror facing themselves so you won't really see the
back as much but I just thought it would look nicer that way so I painted
everything in black once the gesso was dry I took some of
the fire Ruby and the aged brass added it to the black Jess owed part
that way it matched everything else that I had added in the background before I
also added a title at the front of the mirror that says you are beautiful I
wanted to have every person that picks up this mirror whether it's me or
somebody that I gift this mirror to that they will pick it up and always feel
beautiful whenever they're looking at themselves this is a really important
thing for women and also men or teenagers so if I'm gonna give it to my
daughter I want her to feel that she is beautiful no matter what and no matter
what she does with her she wakes wears makeup well whether or not she feels
something else within herself that she always knows she's beautiful inside and
out and that was a really important message to put on a mirror I think
that's really important you don't see me adding this on but it is there at the
end and you can see it in the little edge of the flowers thank you so much
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