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in new altered art.It's the best that any piece of art can hope for

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Friday 15 January 2010

All Present, Delivered and Correct....


Well maybe not correct, but pressie has been delivered to Katherine T.
Another altered box, which was just a plain pine jewellery box to begin with.
Katherine gave me some model magic so I wanted to have a play with that, and it ended up on her birthday present.
I rolled it very thinly, stamped into it and folded it, tweaked it, painted it.
This sits on a layer of painted and heated Tyvek.
I made a mould of a Gargoyle fridge magnet and used the model magic in that... its a very details and in parts undercut mould, and it came out much better than the ones I have tried to make with oven baked polymer clays.



Inside there is a removable tray. There is a working clock inside one of the compartments, the face of the clock is embossed metal, which i just doodled on. The bottom of the other compartments are filled with UTEE, coloured with Mica powders.

The lower tray has been lined with metal from Tomato Puree tubes... I love the colour of these and usually flatten them in my Wizard, but have left them creased here and covered them with clear UTEE and a few micro beads.
I have just noticed that some of these photos were taken whist the outside was matt black.. I have since sprayed it with a green mica spray.  The sides are metal, wire, beads, embossing powder and some fab felt like stuff that you can heat and it melts... oh I am so sad getting excited about such stuff!

10 comments:

  1. Pictures do not do it justice. The colours are just lush and it's so textural. Looks gorgeous on my chest of drawers and I will now know where to find my earrings! Thank you Nicks, I blummin love it! KT

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  2. Well, I always thought you were pretty good, but reluctantly I must now admit that you are b*%%@/ good!!! Phenomenal !

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  3. Wow, That is just brilliant. You have such talent. Thanks your for sharing it.
    A x

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  4. Fantastic box - inside and out, no wonder Katherine is pleased!

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  5. Now that is a WOW !!
    I've got that mould lol No one would guess where it came from but it looks so good

    Sparkles

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  6. This is truly GORGEOUS, absolutely beautiful, fantastic work!

    Carol x

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  7. Woooooh Thats really cool I love the idea of Tomato purree tubes fantasic colour they turn out ,Plus the whole box has been transformed into and object of sublime beauty x

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  8. WOW this is so amazin, so much detail and the colours are gorgeous, so creative :)

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  9. The box is fabulous, love all the texture and colours. Lucky Katherine.

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  10. Oh this is just gorgeous! I bet katherine is over the moon.

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