Beach Box Project

I've been trying to get a bit more inky lately as my cute side seems to have taken over just a bit lol.. anyway, i had a little wooden letter cube that had a W inset that i would never of used, so i decided it would be a good little project to alter.

I dug out the W carefully with a small chisel, and painted all over with blue metallic paint.

As i haven't played with metal in a long time either i got a bit of my TSS metal, and while rummaging i found one of the mini embossing plates you get free with magazines, the one i found had a summer/seaside theme... and seeing as its nearly the end of our summer i thought it a perfect topic for my project! Keep the summer alive lol!

I cut a square of metal big enough to fit into the the little inlay on the cube, i then cut that into 4, and embossed each piece with a different summertime shape... as i didn't want them to look all the same, i coloured each piece using Kuretake alcohol inks, these are very striking and vibrant colours and i love um... if you like ranger inks you'll love these too, there a must!

It came to mind that at the seaside you always have a game or 2 of bingo going on in the arcades and i wanted to incorporate that so i used one of Jennies fab bingo card stamps from the artistic stamper to edge 3 sides of the cube. I stamped with jet black Stazon.

I thought that the cube looked a bit bare and wanted to jazz it up a touch, so to finish i added some fun and funky grungepaper flowers, made using the flower power plate from artistic stamper and some distress inks. I held the flowers together with some fab screw top snaps just to give a quirky look.

Thanks for stopping by, there will be another project next week!

♥ HUGZ ♥

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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Mirror Mirror

Just a quick post today to show my first attempt at using Ten Second Studio metal sheets.

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I decided to try and cover a mirror frame i had. And can i just say now.. NEVER AGAIN lol
Not having a clue what i was doing, trust me to pick something that was way beyond my limits.

OMG this piece was a total nightmare from start to finish, from sticking the metal on to finishing it, whatever could of gone wrong, i think did, but i stuck with it and i did finally end up with a somewhat OK piece!

{i wont bore you with all the details of how i messed this up as I'd be here a very long time}

Just that i placed some die cut letters onto the frame and then covered with the metal.

Rubbed over where the letters were to make them pop out of the metal. Then bashed the hell out of the whole piece with TH texture hammer, and finished with alcohol inks.

I'm defiantly no Cheryl Darrow but i finally have the right tools so hopefully my next experience with metal will be a better one lol.

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All feedback good or bad would be greatly appricated as need all the help i can with this metal melarky!

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xx Hugz xx