26 Apr 2015

A Little Niche

Had a lovely weekend last week mainly spent in my shed, I haven't had that much time to just play around with inks and paints for ages!! I decide I would do a little niche to enter into the paper artsy challenge topic 7 which you can pop over and see here

I have lots of the little boxes from the Tim Holtz configuration boxes so thought I would use one of those...they are really dinky so a little bit fiddly but a lot of fun. It started off like this...






I cut a Tim Holtz pediment for the top.I painted it inside and out with black gesso..let that dry and added a layer of crackle glaze. Once the was dry I painted over with elelphant and let the crackle do its thing..I did the same to the pediment and stuck it to the top of the box. I used black texture paste to stencil on the sides....







Now time to fill the box...





I had a little metal cameo frame, added a vintage piccie to it and stuck it to a large white flower. The frame was painted black and just touched with some silver treasure gold. Next I made another frame using some paper clay with one of my modge podge molds..painted that black and finished it with treasure gold too.To this I added a little metal birdcage. Stuck some buttons in front with a little fob watch leaning on it. The little book is also a mold I have and is made from paperclay too, painted and added some book pages. Lastly I painted a wooden heart and stuck it to the pediment.


Thanks for stopping by............

7 comments:

  1. In case the first one did get lost, this is beautiful!! I love the little book, it's fantastic!

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  2. Amazing project! Very fun to see, great idea. Love it! xx

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  3. Awesome Lin, love the crackle and the embellishments and the tiny book is precious :-)

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  4. Looks fabulous, can't believe how much you managed to fit inside - lol xx

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  5. Oh that's just lovely, and the crackle and weathering looks fantastic.
    Alison xx

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