Ten Seconds of Fun

OK so it was alot longer than that, I'm actually talking Ten Second Studio fun.

If you haven't already guessed Metal is the new Black!
Everywhere you look someones doing something with the fab new {well to me} range of tools and coloured sheets of metal from TSS.
And I'm no exception!!!

Last week I treated myself to the basic tool set and medium eraser set with some xmas money i received. I had brought some sheet metal at one of the craft fairs but forgot all about it really till i started to see metal fab creations everywhere, and i discovered the TSS blog and TACO Tuesday.. wow these ladies are talented, go check out there site if you haven't already.

Anyway i digress..

So i just wanted to have a little play and see what happened.. and here is the results.

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The first piece i did was just me messing about really, seeing what each tool did, and also trying one of my fiskers plates with the paper stump. It was ok till i decided to add colour using my alcohol inks... oh my... disaster... i was ready to chuck it in the bin but decided to TRY and salvage it, which is just what i did with the use of my brown stazon.{thank you stazon} The whole thing was bright and vulgar but adding the brown overcoat just dulled it all down and somehow transformed it {really must learn to take in between photo shots so you can see what I'm on about}
I ended up with a frame type shape in the metal and decided to fill it with a swan as i thought my piece had gone from ugly duckling to beautiful swan!! {well kinda pretty at least} and i added the word Beauty to the hand made wire hanger i created {i have some fab shop brought ones from Jennie at The Artistic Stamper} but wanted something a bit bigger so made my own.

I love how it looks so different with just a switch of angle & light.

I will probably send this in for the UK Art Raffle as the theme this month is SHINY, so if you like it, and want a chance to win it pop over to the site and join in the fun.

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Now for my other piece...
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I used just cuttlebug embossing folders, Black and Brown Stazon and the basic tools i mentioned above.

{oh BTW the hanger on this piece is one of the brought ones to which i added the word Best}

{This piece also looks cool in different lights}

I am 100% happier with the second piece and cant wait to have more time to play again.

Although i think i need to watch a few more TACO Tuesday demos first.

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Thanks for stopping by

xx Hugz xx
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