Day of the Dead Skull

Having been to the Powertex Garden Party and Pramoda Gifts in the same week, and picking up some polystyrene skulls from the latter, I set to digging out some embellies and fabric possibilities.

I had some ivory and bronze Powertex left so I mixed them together just to give the polystyrene a coat. I started to add a few bits.

Building it up more and more.

Using the Powertex as a glue, I stuck everything down and set it outside to dry.

This is the back of the head.

And one of the sides.

 I waited until it was completely dry until I started to play around with colours.

No plan involved, I just kept adding colour until I liked what I'd got.

And again, from the side.

And the back of the head.

From the front and the eyes.

Now I just need to find somewhere to put him on display. 

Car Boot

I've been watching a few youtubes about fabrics books this week and I decided I needed some doylies and lacey type stuffs for them, so this morning before I went shopping I dropped into the car boot on the field opposite Morrisons, which was extremely muddy!!! Anyway I picked up the above bundle for £2.

These two were 20p each.

This is a triangular scarf which was also 20p.

I thought I could use this wonderful edging.

These were 50p each and a couple of them are oblong.

This is a dress which is made from some sort of lace, so for £1, I thought I could cut it up.

These are baby clothes and I only actually wanted the red one, but they were 3 for a £1, so I picked the pink one for the lacey trims and organza and the white one is made of cotton with some sort of flowers on it. Again, I will be cutting them all up.

I have no idea why this has come out grey as it's actually a lovely deep black and it was only 50p.

This is the back of a lacey blouse with a couple of ruffles on the shoulders.

And this is the front of the same blouse, more ruffles and lace. It was 50p and again will be getting cut up.

So for a grand total of £7.60, I didn't think I did bad.

Atc's for That's Crafty

That's Crafty wanted to see some atc's this week.

#3UP #PAtwit

Now this is a long story but it has to do with Twitter, PaperArtsy and Ally Pally!! Say no more I hear you cry!!  We were asked to hash tag 3UP and PAtwit. No-one knew what 3UP was but the PAtwit was a PaperArtsy Twitter follower. So I did my duty and hash tagged and these turned up in the post after receiving a DM via Twitter. I was asked to make something with them by 26 April and email a photo for the PA Blog.

I sponged the wooden plaque with cut n dry foam in various colours of fresco paints, vanilla, limelight, zesty zing, smoked paprika, pumpkin soup, london bus, eggplant, beach hut and probably some others!!

The rough diamond stencil was sponged through with Baltic blue and bumped with stone fresco paints.

My lovely and now real friends, Helen and Carol, both very kindly sent me some crackly tissue paper as it's now discontinued as Leandra can't find anything as good to do the same job! So I stamped these 3 images in black stazon as I wasn't sure which I wanted to use and the crackly tissue is so rare, you can't waste any!!

Then onto my favourites the crocheted flowers (not), and the Tando chipboard key and I also threw in an ornate frame from my stash. I coloured them all with eggplant and south pacific fresco paint.

I turned the stamped images over and painted them from the back in fresco paints. Once finished I completely covered the backs in snowflake.

After playing about with the images I decided on this one. I painted golden matte medium on the wood, laid the crackly tissue image on and painted the matte medium over the top whilst smoothing it out at the same time. Once dried I blended in the edges with fresco paint.

I stamped the script from the ink and the dog background #2 plate in black stazon and white versamagic ink randomly over the background avoiding the main image. I took this photo outside when the sun was out. The colours are a truer reflection.

And finally I added one of the flowers to which I added a brad and coloured it with the vintaj patina paint. Stamped the word admire from the ink and the dog vintage nudes #2 plate and mounted it in the ornate frame with a couple of yellow brads and stamped the frame with script in black stazon. The key looked totally lost in the background, so I painted it black and stamped it in white ink to give more definition.

It has been showcased on the blog here.