Inner Circles

 

For this project I used the remaining circles from this set I cut.

I wrapped each ring in t-shirt fabric and black powertex. Once dry, I coloured each ring, powertexed them all together and mounted them on a stand.

I could have done a lot more to it, but I wanted to keep it pretty simple and straightforward.

Close up of the rings where you can see they are actually different colours.

Close up of the wrapping and the stand.

Circles of Life

 

Using my polystyrene cutter I cut these circles out.

Set up the dining room table.

Added stone art to all the pieces, rubbed in, applied a second and third layer in various places, then sprayed with black bister.

Then I put all the layers together and secured them with wooden sticks. I made a little man to sit inside the smallest one.

Close up of the layers of stoneart and the bister.

And a close up of the middle ring and the bister.

Christmas Wreath

 

I started off with cutting myself a polystyrene ring with my new cutter.  I wrapped it in t-shirt fabric and powertex and left it to dry.

Once completely dried I coloured it with gold pigment to bring out the textures all over.

Then I started playing with some natural elements and arranging them on the wreath.

Close up of some of the natural elements.

I didn't have a merry christmas, so I made my own.

I started to powertex bits down and then stopped as I had an idea of how to attach the letters.

Once I'd figured out the letters, I continued to use the powertex to secure everything in place.

Once everything was totally secure, I went over everything again with another coat of powertex.  I also used lime stickles on the letters.

And here is my finished wreath, I decided to go down the green and gold route although I realise you can't see it very well in this photo as it's so dark and still raining!!

Close up of some of the dry brushing.

And some more.  I used the gold first and then the green on top.

The Merry ended up too far to the left so I made some more holly leaves to fill in the gap.

Close up of the first set of leaves and berries which hopefully represent holly!

And again, finally the finished wreath, which I am really really pleased with as I was meant to be going on a wreath workshop tomorrow, but unfortunately due to being in tier 3, it's had to be cancelled.

Halloween - Tea Light Holder

My nephew and his girlfriend have just moved into their first house together, so I rescued some pieces of polystyrene. 

And as it's nearly the end of the month, I went for a Halloween theme.  This is the front with webs, skulls and spiders.

And the side with a skull and a web with spiders in.

I left the back pretty simple as you probably won't see much of it, but I did add gemstones in the eye sockets.

A mummy and a couple of skulls on the other side.

And as it's polystyren it's easy to cut into. I cut a hole in the top for a tea light to sit in.