Someday, the altered art you make today will be
old, faded, falling apart, and someone else will salvage the bits and use them
in new altered art.It's the best that any piece of art can hope for

~ anon~


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Thursday 22 May 2008

It's that Key time!



Another day, another play. Here's the result of a days play. Didn't know where I was going until I got there, I just knew I wanted to use turquoise... trying to get away from my normal brown/copper and get out of my personal box. Unfortunately it was hard to photograph because I couldn't use flash as it reflected onto the metal and the consequence of this was that it looks 'bluer' than it really is. It's a Key Box that I picked up in a bargain bucket that just needed to be altered!

The pelmet at the top has been covered with aluminium tape but before sticking it on I stuck some punched out shapes and then burnished over the top which makes it look like they are embossed into the metal.. it's a very effective technique courtesy of Tim Holtz (though I'm sure he didn't think it up originally!!)

The Central bit is proper aluminum, stamped/embossed/painted. and then a couple of charms and a pair of wings later it was finished. This one is going into my stock to hopefully sell!!

6 comments:

  1. is this my Christmas pressie LOL

    Sparkles

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  2. Wow!!!
    a lot of work gone into it .
    Brilliant .

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  3. This is brilliant. I think I need to find one of these to alter.

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  4. It's an amazing piece of work!

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