Thursday, April 1, 2010

Altered game waste thingy doobrey wotsit

I have no idea what to call this...... so perhaps I'll show you the before picture first.


It's the bit leftover from a game my daughter had- the holes held chipboard cards and are about an inch square. This is how it looks now......



I painted the frame with PVA glue then dabbed with alcohol inks in pesto, terracotta and raisin. Then I stamped over the inks with a stamp (Aspire to be top left square) using archival ink. I stamped something for each aperture onto separate card square and coloured them with Distress Inks in Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint, Scattered Straw and Mustard Seed, as well as a tiny bit of a lavender ink that was already on the card. The fairies and castle are my favourite little Lavinia stamps. A couple of the squares are covered in Glossy Accent, and most of them have some Stickles on.

I wasn't too keen on the green and orange chequerboard squares so I heated some UTEE in my Melt pot and poured it in along with some beads. I got some pockmarks on the squares by mistake, but you know what they say- there are no mistakes, so I rubbed some metallic rub on to them to highlight the bubbles.

Finally I sandwiched some orange ribbon between the front and back to make it into a hanging.

This is my challenge entry for this week's Tuesday Taggers- It's a bug's life- there's a little dragonfly on there! This week their challenge is sponsored by The Craft Barn, so I hope I win!!!!

It's also my entry for the Papertake weekly challenge which is anything goes and for the Fairytale challenge at All the cute and girly blog.

13 comments:

  1. Is this what they call upcycling? its gorgeous. Thank you for buggin' us at TT this week. Did you spot that craft barn are sponsoring us again? A little link to them puts you in the draw for their fab prize.

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  2. Oh for goodness sake - waste from ANYTHING never speaks to me like this! It's just gorgeous Lisa, and your descriptin makes it all sound so effortless! Lovely.

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  3. Stunning! Beautiful creation! Thanks for sharing with us at TT this week!

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  4. Wow! This is wonderfully creative and inventive. Inspired use of the 'thingy' - you gave it beauty! x

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  5. Fabulous work of art. Thanks for joining TT this week.
    Pat xx

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  6. Amazing and beautiful transformation Lisa. Thanks for bugging us with your fantastic entry.
    x Michelle

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  7. What a great project, love it. Now there's another piece of 'waste' I won't be able to throw away, lol. Thanks for joining us at By The Cute and Girly this month.

    ** Kate **

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  8. You deserve to win, that's the best altering of a wotsit I've ever seen. Wow!

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  9. Wow! this is an amazing piece of recycling Lisa, clever you, love it. Thanks for joining us at the by the cute and girly April challenge hugs nnalorac.xx

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  10. Brilliant as always Lisa - just loving your creative thinking outside the box or rather doubry wotsits LO thanks for sharing again with TT xx Janet

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  11. wow this is amazing!!! so creative! Hugs Juls

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  12. Wow, this is gorgeous! Love the sunny colours. Very creative! :) Thanks for joining us over at By the Cute and Girly this month. Hugs Hanna

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  13. Wow Lisa, this is just fantastic, thank you for sharing with us at By the Cute and Girly.

    Did you realise this also fits our Fantasy theme at Stampalot where we have a wonderful prize on offer.

    B x

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