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Friday, 11 July 2008

I can post this now...

since it is Deb's birthday today and she has opened her pressie (which for some reason she thought was a golf ball???) I can show you this bit of old tat I made her for her birthday!!
It's a bit of an experiment..... anyone remember when the TV programme 'Changing Rooms' was at it's height and they used some stuff called ESP as a primer on the MDF board they used at every opportunity?? Well I found some in the garage and used it on the tin before the paint.. I will leave it to Debs to tell me if it is successful!
Now, I have a top tip for you all.............. when you have clay faces and one friendly plastic face and you take the tin out into the garden to show someone, DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT leave it on the window sill on a warm day, cos the FP face will melt! duh!! hence the 'mask' put over the top!!
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4 comments:

  1. Sian11 July 2008 at 19:00

    Mmm... I don't remember that stuff but the tin looks great, and I kind of like the melted face look!

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  2. Anonymous13 July 2008 at 13:54

    Thank you so much for this marvellous bit of old tat Nicks! I love it - the wolverine face on the left is my fave of all.
    Debs H

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  3. John Dyhouse15 July 2008 at 19:04

    I have ben saving a few old tins for the right project, must start thinking 'cos this looks great! - John

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  4. Sarah3 September 2008 at 10:39

    well I'd call that a happy accident because the mask looks great.

    I went the other way around and melted my face MOULD. I had tried using those Krafty Lady art moulds with friendly plastic, where I would just lay the FP on top and melt it with a heat gun into the mould... worked great.

    Then I decided it would be fun to show it to some pals at a local craft club.... but instead of the Krafty Lady mould I took one of those cream coloured Sculpey moulds. I didn't know they weren't heat proof!! I heated the FP into them, it all got horribly stuck, and all of the face shapes warped completely out of shape.

    I still like them though, they have the whole Zetti weird thing going on now :)

    Anyway - back to the tin! Love the colours, and all of the faces, 'tis super cool.

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