Altered Book End

I picked up a pair of these ages ago in a 2nd hand shop. This weeks challenge on This Thursday has at last made me get round to altering one of them.

If any one has any questions about these or anything else on my blog please email me.

My First Shadow Box

This is my piece for this week MMM - Rust. I had the rusty heart and moon laying around and fancied doing a shadow box with them. I made the box around a 5 x 7 canvas out of offcuts of wood from my local wood yard.

I coloured the background with a few different acrylics and used Mica to try and get a starry night effect which I finished off with some small Mother of Pearl stars I had. I then did the frame edge of the box with brown acrylic over the blue to give an aged effect. then finished it off with a die cut swirl coloured with several different acrylics, and some blue rub on stuff to give it a patina look.

A Beach Hut

When Nes stayed with me recently she was very taken with all the Beach huts down by the Beach. So when I saw this after she had gone home I just had to buy it and alter it as her Diva gift for July.

The stunning Photo of the finished Hut was taken By Zuzu.

Tea For Two

This is for the Mixed Media Monday blog challenge this week.

The T is hand cut from thick chipboard and then messed up with texture paste, fantasy film & fibres and some embossing powders.

The swirls are die cut from thin chipboard and the Letters are cut with shrink plastic, inked and stamped and then ummm...... shrunk LOL.

LEDscribe

The scribe in the light with the LED's lit

The Scribe in the Dark with the LED's lit


Mine for the This Thursday Challenge this week. This is an LED Scribe Display which is basically an acrylic block which is mounted on an acrylic base with an Led coloured light behind it to illuminate.
I stamped the image on one side of the block then coloured the other side with alcohol inks. The base was covered with Gold Leaf to hide the battery. Then the whole thing was glued together with hot glue. After embossing the edge, beads and gems were added for decoration and interest. Finally a twisted wire with beads was added to the top and sides to finish it off.
The mermaid image used is one of my favourites at the moment and is by Thirdcoast

The LED scribe block I used for this was an idea conjured up by a friend of my daughters. He has started to market these on a very small scale to see how things go. If any one is interested in having a look at his web site for this product this is the link http://www.ledscribe.net/.
The one above, which is shown on his site is the Red LED, but I can assure you that the other colours he offers are just as stunning once finished, so think ahead as to which colour inks you will using before ordering, as I was just lucky that I got a red one as I gave this no thought at all. LOL.