Curiosity Cabinet

 

I picked up a lovely box from the car boot on Sunday.

I played around with some patterned papers on the inside.

I started to pull some pieces together to put on the inside. I made these candles from straws and hot glue.

I created another embellishment using resin bones inside a glass vial and gluing a button on the end to keep the contents inside. It also helped to have a flat surface to glue it into the cabinet.

Next I started to play around with how I wanted to display the objects inside.

And kept going until all the shelves were filling up nicely.

A view of the left side of the completed box.

This is what I settled on for the bottom two shelves of the box.

These are what I settled on for the top two shelves of the box.

And a photo of all the shelves.

And the view from the front of the whole cabinet.

The outside has been painted with charcoal rusty paint to give it texture. Once dry I also gave it a coat of varnish.

This is the closure.

A box of Skulls and Cogs

I painted a cabinet drawer with black gesso.

I then made a mix of gel medium, acrylic paint and the small sand balls and painted the inside.

Then I took out some of my moulds and started to arrange them inside the box.

Then I painted them all in black gesso.

I coloured all the pieces before I put them back in the box and stuck them down using heavy gel medium.

Wooden Box

This is the third size of the collection of TH Idea-ology vignette boxes. Tissue tape added to the back along with some Calico Crafts windows and a couple of little pieces I made using wooden spools, mini bulbs, washers and more Calico wings and hearts. Rusty nails, more washers and some rusty wire. 

A Wooden Box

At the weekend my mum, sister and nephew went to a country fair, my sister bought my mum some little pots of jam which came in this wooden box.

No your eyes are not deceiving you, I have painted it pink, well DecoArt innocence from the chalky range to be exact. When I put an order in, one of the colours was out of stock so they sent this one instead, yikes!! So I'm using it as a base coat!

There, normal service is resumed, next was a coat from the same range of paint but this colour is rustic.

I then moved outside as it was quite nice as the sun had come round to the patio area. One coat all over with weathered wood crackle glaze. Followed by a coat of serene from the same range.

Close up of the crackle which came out really well been as the wood on the box is quite rough.

I also crackled the top edges.

I added some stenciling using Andy Skinner Stencils and the relic chalky paint.

I dry brushed some of the relic onto the sides of the box too and topped it off with a tickle of black shimmer metallic lustre.

Close up of the stenciling, crackle and lustre.

On the other small end I used black modeling paste through an Americana Decor script stencil.

And finally I gave the box a coat of clear creme wax and buffed it up. It gave a really smooth finish.

All products used are from the DecoArt range.