Happy Wednesday, Second post for me today so thanks for sticking with me, as always it is so great to have you stop by.x
Now this project goes back a little while, Whilst at the Ally Pally craft show in April having a good look round I got to chatting with Di Oliver of
Tando-Creative and
Helen Pigott from
Its Crafting Time who had been discussing alternate uses for some of the Tando range and that the xmas advent calendar looked a lot like a Dalek, I think it was right place at the right time as I was then given the challenge of turning the tree into the Dr Who villain.
A little while later I received the kit and set to work figuring out what I needed to do. The kit it's self goes together really easily, this little pic shows how the tree looks un painted and the next one is of a tree fully painted up as an advent calendar, I gave mine a Tarnished Brass finish using
Decoarts Acrylic paints and one of
Andy Skinners on line workshop finishes from Time Worn , details can be found on his blog.
I needed to make a couple of sections for the conversion and after a couple of fails found the right way to make the sections I needed, the dome is from an old telephone bell and the mesh has been cut from some magic mesh and glued down after being painted with decoart paints. The arms are kebab sticks and a tooth pick has been used for the top arm thing.
I wish this had been my idea but I had so much fun creating this, I can already see ways of making it better.
Now if you do not know who
Tando-Creative are follow the link to their blog, they are a UK company that produce brilliant chipboard parts and kits, there should be a product range on their blog as well as a list of suppliers.
I would like to enter this into the challenge over at
Simon Says Stamp And Show, they are having a 'Kraft' theme, Im not 100% sure what that is but chip board was mentioned and this has been made from a chipboard kit so hopefully that counts x
Anything But A Card are having a 'Masculine' challenge.
Crafty Cardmakers are having a 'Steam Punk' challenge.
The
Stampotique Designers Challenge are having a 'Anything But A Card' theme, I looked at the rules and could not see anything about having to use a stamp so hopefully all is good.
Left Of Center are having an alternative or Embossing challenge.
Punk You Girl Are nearly finished their first challenge, the theme is 'Anything Goes' and they are a new alternative challenge.
A little while later I received the kit and set to work figuring out what I needed to do. The kit it's self goes together really easily, this little pic shows how the tree looks un painted and the next one is of a tree fully painted up as an advent calendar, I gave mine a Tarnished Brass finish using Decoarts Acrylic paints and one of Andy Skinners on line workshop finishes from Time Worn , details can be found on his blog.
I needed to make a couple of sections for the conversion and after a couple of fails found the right way to make the sections I needed, the dome is from an old telephone bell and the mesh has been cut from some magic mesh and glued down after being painted with decoart paints. The arms are kebab sticks and a tooth pick has been used for the top arm thing.
After a little thought about how I could add holes I came up with this and dug out my paper targets from my visit to the Las Vegas gun store a couple of summers ago, I had an absolute blast and did the Zombie Hunter pack, I got to shoot 4 guns that are in pretty much every Zombie killing computer game (yes I am a nerd)This target Is my Zombie Clown target and I used a Police Issue Shot Gun to add my 'Holes'I cut a piece of ply wood to size, About 12"x16" ish and cut my target to fit, It was glued to the wood with Decoart's decopage glue, when dry the holes were showing the wood so I painted them in with black acrylic paint.I used Decoart's modeling paste around the edges applied with a pallet knife and this picture shows how it looked before any colour was added. I started by applying different colour washes of Decoarts Traditions acrylic paint, I used Quin Gold,Quin Violet and Phthalo Blue. All three of these colors are transparent so I knew the image would be seen through the paint, When the washes were dry I used the same colours only neat and painted over the modeling paste and blended the colours into the main image to tie in with the washes and to give more depth to things.
A little bit of Dark red paint was flicked across the face to add more blood splatters. The modeling paste was high lighter with some Treasure Gold In emerald green to give some contrast to the warmer colours. Once the paint was dry I sealed the image with some matte medium and then used the Decoart one step crackle finish. With this you need to apply it really quite thick and then let it self level, I poured quite a lot of it over the main image and spread it around with a brush, pulling it in all directions and leaving it thick in places and very thin in others, some places missed completely as I wanted more of a random look to the finish, the areas with the bigger cracks are where the one step was thickest. When it was dry I rubbed some acrylic paint into the cracks and wiped away the excess with a baby wipe.
The images are from the Avengers set of digi images and have been coloured with Copics, I think my fave is Black Widow, I love the way she pops from the lime green. The images have been fussy cut and clear embossed twice and then glued on. When I started out I was not going to use them on the pen pot, I was going to do a journal page but could not get them to work with a layout so needed to re think, If I did it again I would print them off so they all fit like the Black Widow but the little pokey uppy bits dont look to bad and at least with the embossing they will be quite durable.
All the paper is form the 6x6 paper pad from Prima called 'Engraver' I do not use a lot of printed papers but this is a great set.It has a lovely vintage feel and is manly enough but should appeal to the ladies too.
