I had an idea for a little ornament/winter shrine/
cutsie-tootsie made from a matchbox... and I finally finished it... so what else would I do but share it with you just in case you want to make something similar?
You start off with an empty match box (of all things, huh?), gather some old book pages (another shocker I know). acrylic paints, a little bit of sculpey, wire (28 gauge and jewelry head pins), glue (white glue and super glue), seed beads, larger glass beads and bugle beads, some brass snowflake charms, ribbon... I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but we'll catch it as we go.
First, let's work on the outside of the match box. It was covered with a portion of a book page. I like torn edges, so I semi-measured how much I'd need (you can see it was a bit longer than I needed). Spread a thin layer of glue on the paper and tightly wrap it over the outer match box cover. You want to be careful here and get rid of any air bubbles. I used my trusty Formica chip to smooth as I went and didn't have any issue, just be sure to smooth, smooth, smooth. Let it dry well, and tear off any extra page.
Once the glue was dry, I added a coat of a medium blue acrylic paint and let that dry...
I have a stamp that looks like a checker-board, and thought that might look interesting, so I painted it white and stamped it on the box.
And while the paint was still wet, I sprinkled micro-fine glitter all over it and tamped it off. (It was at this point that I got a healthy dose of the glitter all over me too...) Again, it needs to dry a bit before I do anything else.So, we'll leave off here and begin again tomorrow...
The links to all of the sections of the tutorial:
Let's get started...
Painting the outside...
Painting the inside and the tree...
Making the snowman...
And the final steps...
3 comments:
Good Morning.
Its always interesting to see what you are up to. I like the paint over print effect.
As always, I am in awe and wondering where you get your ideas. Have a great day.
LOL... you know Carol, you and I both wonder where I get my ideas. Back in the day when I designed needlepoint for a living, the ideas were so plentiful that I had to use a notebook to jot them all down in... they used to "fight" to be born. Going to work in an office, a huge portion of that sense of creativity (and most likely my soul) sort of died off... I'm pushing myself to create every day though, and they are finally starting to come back... Let's hope they never go away again... I get lonely without them LOL
I'm loving your matchbook ornament ... but ACK ... it's hard to get into the ornament making mood with 100++ temps!
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