Master Mind Online Workshop with Belinda Basson

All set up and ready to go.

We had to perform a lobotomy so I had my styrofoam cutter at the ready.

And now we have  the top of the head spliced off, we can make a start.

Next we covered the head with random pieces of silver sticky foil.

And used a ball point pen to add some marks.

Then the classic, cover with black paint and wipe most of it off again so the paint stays in the impressions made with the pen.

Then the piece for the top was put through an embossing folder, cut out and stuck on the top.

And the same treatment to the top using the black paint again and wiping back.

Painted the cogs black and then used brushed iron alchemy wax over the top.

Then I started to assemble the gears on the top of the head.

The gears are now dry and thankfully they stayed in place.

And the side view from the right.

And the back of the head.

And the left side view.

Then Janet came to my rescue providing me with some plastic green soldiers - thank you.

And a close up of the top with the soldiers mounted on there.

A more frontal view.

And from the back but to the side.

And the view from the back square on.

And another back and side view.

And a close up view of the top.

I decided that I needed to put it on a proper base.  So I painted a piece of wood black, then I created a skin using an embossing folder and Finnabair icing paste in silver.  Once dry I peeled it off and stuck it to the piece of wood.

Once dry, I used a cheap black dye inkpad and swooshed it over the top and as you can see it only caught the raised pieces.

I then glued the head onto the base.

And a close up of the base and bottom of neck.

Industrial Tin

Look what I came across in my stash whilst looking for something else!

It measures approx 5" x 5".

I ran some sticky silver tape through an embossing folder and stuck it on the lid and sides of the tin.

Then I completely covered it in black powertex and wiped it back before it totally dried.  I used the wiped off powertex on another project.

And I did the sides as well.

I pulled out a few resin pieces and laid them out.

I coloured them with brass treasure gold and mounted them on the lid of the tin.

From a slightly different view.

I wanted to cover the label up on the back as I couldn't get it off, so I stuck an old advert over it to hide it.

And I simply cut a couple of pieces of paper to size and stuck them inside.  I did think about decorating the insides but then I wouldn't be able to put anything in there, so I just stuck with the papers.

And just to show that the lid does close.

#rusteffects #powertex #upcyclingchallenge

Day 28 - Steampunk Tag

Another steampunk tag using all sorts of different techniques.

Day 28 of the #fabtag30day challenge.

Day 24 Tags - Embossed and Steampunk

Backgrounds coloured with oxides and embossed with a clock/time folder. Die cut cogs and TH film added.

And I simply just added a paper doll to each tag as I didn't want to cover too much of the background up.

Day 24 of the #fabtag30day challenge.

Day 22 Tags - Embossing Folders- Steampunk

Used sticky silver tape over the tags and them embossed them through a folder.  Painted them in black gesso and then wiped back the access.

Then I started playing around seeing which images and embellishments went together.

And this is what I ended up with.

Valentines Theme Swap

Over on a FB group I'm in we are having a valentines themed swap, so mine was hearts, hearts, hearts.

Close up of the crackle

The layered hearts and the tulip paint.

More crackle!

A Play with Rust

So as the sun was shining this morning, I decided to have a play with a few rust techniques as demonstrated by Andy Skinner, or a variation of!

I passed all the pieces of card through an embossing folder to give them some tooth. I sprayed this one with black media mister and painted over with quin gold, after a coat of ultra matte varnish to seal it, I used a graphite pencil to further bring out the textures.

I did exactly the same on this one as I did on the one above. I actually wish I'd have added more of the mister to start with a darker background.

This piece is literally a coat of the AS dirty wash (quin gold, mixed with paynes grey, mixed with ultra matte varnish) and rubbed over with the graphite pencil.

On this one I used antiquing creams. Base coat of medium grey 6, coat of patina antiquing cream, wiped back, sealed with ultra matte varnish, a coat of white antiquing cream, wiped back, coat of ultra matte varnish and finally a watery coat of the dirty wash just to tone down the white antiquing cream.

Added texture sand paste to the embossed card, coloured with a mix of tinting base and paynes grey.  Added carbon black around the edges, a layer of paynes grey wash all over and then a coat of quin gold. Finished with a coat of ultra matte varnish and again used the graphite pencil.

And finally I used black and white antiquing cream for this piece. Base colour is dark grey 3, a coat of black antiquing cream, wiped back and sealed with ultra matte varnish. A coat of quin gold, followed by a coat of white antiquing cream, wiped back and sealed with ultra matte varnish and finally a coat of the dirty wash, again to tone down the white and a rub over with the pencil.

No sure what I'm going to do with them yet, but was great to get messy and grungy again.