Altered Wine Bottle Holder

We have another great challenge over at Creative Artiste this month and as always the theme is anything goes as long as it is mixed media/altered art. 

For my project this month I decided to alter this fantastic wine holder that I found at a thrift store. 

My picture of the original wine holder does not do it justice.  The container is solid wood, has a leather and wood handle and a metal insert in the bottom that allows the bottles to slant outwards. 

To create my project I sand papered the box and  I decided on my design, added squares of cardboard to the base of the wine box and added a coating of gesso to the whole of the project.

My next step was to create the design and add my findings.

I painted the findings with gesso to then sprayed the project with an assortment of spray paints.  Once I was satisfied with the  look of the sprays and colour combinations I added some white gesso to high some areas along with green and purple Pentart wax paste. 

Here are some closer views

Back view

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I am entering this project in the following challenges

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything Goes

Mix it Up Challenge - Anything Goes Distressing

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

A Inky Mess - Anything Goes

Halloween Altered Box, Anything Goes at Steampunk Challenges

 If you have not hear we have a new challenge blog called Steampunk challenges.  This is our second monthly challenge. We are a Steam . Grunge . Industrial themed blog.  Check us out here.  

This months challenge is anything goes and I decided to create an altered Halloween box. 

This is the box I started with.  I sanded it and applied a layer of gesso to the entire box. 

To create my Halloween theme box I used an assortment of napkins, Halloween papers, metal pieces along with some steampunk elements, crackle paste and antiquing solutions. 

I used a plastic Halloween partial skeleton for the handle for my box that I coloured with antiquing solution and glued with E6000. 

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I am entering this project in to=he following challenges:

A Bit More Time to Craft- anything goes

SanDee & Amelie"s Steampunk challenge -  anything goes/ steampunk/industrial 

Shabby Chic Card Challenge

Time for another Crafty Cardmakers challenge this month and the theme is Shabby Chic.

I made this cards from rubber stamps from my stash.  Bella is an unmounted stamp which I think was from a collection of stamps I bought years ago and still love and I think the company was from Vancouver and is out of business now. 

 I tore the edges to give the card pieces and inked to give the card an aged look,  The ribbon was tea dyed.  I used Copic  and pencil crayons to colour my image. 

Here of another view of the card. 

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Delight in Life

Time for another great anything goes challenge over at  Through the Craft Room Door.

Our generous Sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps.

The prize this week is $12 Voucher for their online shop.

I have used Bugaboos digital image

4 Block Tulip Square  

This is another view of the card which I coloured with Copics, Wink of Stella, and pencil crayon. 

another view of the card.

To complete the card I added some butterflies, a Stampin Up sentiment stamp  and ribbon.

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Crafty CardMakers Recycle an Element

 I am hosting the challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers this week and I chose the theme of using a recycled element in your project.  For a friend I created this notebook using part of a cereal box for the core of the book.

I cut all of the pages, cover and core etc with a large round die cut .  For the cover of the notebook I  decorated it with Lavinia fairy stamps along with some other stamps from my collection. I used Distress Inks for the background along with gel pens, posta pens, Pentart glitter and Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Once I had created my cover I added some scrapbook paper from my stash on the back cover, the next step was to decide where to place my hinges on the from and then cut the front cover to allow the book to open.  I did not have the right colour of hinges so I painted the hinges with gesso and then with the purple colour to match the cover. 

For the pages for the book I used regular typing paper and glued them at the top of the page and then glued them to the top of the back cover.  I decorated the pages with some few small fairies. 

Added glue above the line to all of my pages and glued the pages into my notebook.

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Fall Colours Challenge

Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner this week  

The theme is Fall Colours. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is:

My image for this challenge is called  Heidi.  She is so cute and perfect for this challenge.I love the fall and all it's rich colours.  

Here is another look at the card.

I coloured the image with Copics and pencil crayons, then I added some wooden leaves that I coloured.  The last thing I added was an autumn sentiment.  

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It's My Party

Time for another great anything goes challenge over at Through the Craftroom Door. 

Our generous Sponsor this week is Oddball Art 

The prize this week is $10 voucher for their online store

 

The image I used from our sponsor is called I Will Cry If I Want To.  She is so cute. I coloured my image with mainly fluorescent  Copics Marks. I also used Nuvo, Pentart Glitter pen, and Gel pens. 

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