March 17, 2020

Explore Sea Glass - Altered Bottle -Dusty Attic

HI Friends,

Its Karan Gerber here today to share some Mood Board Inspiration with you.
 i have an altered bottle to share with you for this months Mood Board Challenge!

I am calling it
 "Explore Sea Glass Bottle"

I pulled the blues and browns from the mood board and designed this as my inspiration.

I started out with a small wine bottle ( Mateus Rose) this measures about 10 inches high and around 5 inches wide in the center; its a bit smaller than most wine bottles, and i wasnt too disappointed that i had to empty the bottle first, haha

 but i bought this bottle especially for the size for me to alter.
I started out by priming the bottle and all the chipboard pieces as when i started i wasn't sure what i was going to do with it, the Decorative Frame  was the perfect size and fit top to bottom on this little bottle.

I had colored the leaves and small glass bottle on the front using colors to coordinate with the Mood Board. Mainly Patina paint form Ranger; Art Anthology and Prima Mists. 

  I wanted the bottle to look like it has been sitting half in the sand, and half exposed to water

i added crackle and pastes to the chipboard to give added texture

we have alot of snow right now so i took this photo below with it sitting on the snow bank on my deck

below you can see the results of the crackle paste, i left this to dry overnight

so there is my take on this months challenge, i hope you have enjoyed dropping by today.

Until Next Time ~~ Happy Scrapping

Dusty Attic Chipboard  Used:

Skeleton Clock Faces: 

Blueprint Word Pack; 

Decorative Frame #1

Other Materials:

Mateus Wine Bottle; Prima Gesso and rust pastes Mists and crackle paste; 

Art Anthology Mists; Prima Mists

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March 10, 2020

Journey to the Stars: Dusty Attic

HI Friends, for today's crafty inspiration i have an altered  star

 for you designed for Dusty Attic. 

I have been using rust pastes alot in my projects lately, i think because it is so easy to work with and needs no priming if used on its own; 

So for this project i used the large skeleton clock, cutting it to fit the star; and then adding in the cog border and adding more gears and cogs on top.

here is what the star looked like prior to starting, i piked these up at Christmas time at the Dollarama not too far from home.  

and here is my completed alter

i added in some resin wings that i made using prima moulds 

the border i cut in half and mirrored it under the title; i placed some broken bits numbers as my start of the base to help support the cogs and gears; adding the border on top

i layered cogs and gears on top of that for added dimension.

I hope you like my Chipboard Inspiration for you today!

Until Next Time, Happy Scrapping!!

Cog Borders 3;  

Skeleton Clock Face; 

blueprint journey 

Cogs and Gears

Broken Bits #1

Other materials:

Dollarama slat board star; gesso; rust pastes from prima ( red, orange  blue) glimmer mists from prima and art anthology; finnabair metal hardware; Prima moulds and Amazing resin for wings. Gold Wax; 

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