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Showing posts with label mini books. Show all posts

Tuesday 12 April 2022

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.

Wednesday 20 October 2021

Bookends or Treasure Boxes

 

I painted the drawers I took out the top part of the cabinet.


I added patterned papers in the back and bottom.


Used texture paste on the outsides and top.


Then I decided to paint them both in purple metallic acrylic.


And I also did the tops.


I then filled them in with mini bits and pieces.


I added some tulle on the bottom and heated it to curl around the bases.


They can either be used for bookends of display ornaments.

These are for sale in my online shop.

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