Compendium of Curiosities #30 - Rusty the Robot-tle

You may feel, after reading this, that I have gone a little bit bonkers!  I have had an empty bottle sitting in my craft room for ages and when I saw the challenge at CC3C this time, I just saw a robot....... yes really....

Please meet Rusty the Robot-tle!

Rusty was created using the Faux Cracked Glass technique which can be found on Page 54 of Tim Holtz Compendium of Curiosities III.  If you have not seen what the Curiosity Crew have made for this Challenge then please do pop over to Linda Ledbetter's Blog where you will see some fantastic inspiration.

As this is an even numbered challenge, the sponsor is the wonderful Linda Coughlin from The Funkie Junkie who is offering one randomly selected individual a $25 voucher to spend in her on-line store.  In addition to that Tim Holtz and Mario Rossi are offering a very generous prize of lots of Tim goodies to one person selected as the Curiosity Crew's favourite.

Whilst I cannot share the technique with you I can show you some of the materials I used to create my robot-tle.

A view of the bottle once the technique has been applied.

The head was created using one of Eileen Hull's Artist Trading Blocks which was then covered with corrugated card from Tim Holtz Textured Surfaces and coloured using Gathered Twigs and Rusty Hinge Distress Paint mixed together with a little Black Soot DP and some Caramel Alcohol Ink. The eyes are made from Tim's Idea-ology mini gears and the mouth and ears from some cardboard cogs from my stash.  His 'hair' is made with twisted rusty wire, also from my stash.

The shoulders and legs were created with some left over corrugated card, coloured in the same way as the head.  The 'body' cogs are again Tim Holtz Idea-ology range.  The word band has been coloured using Rusty Hinge Distress Paint.

This is the second of my DT makes for Inspiration Emporium this month and I used products from there to create my project.  If you do shop there and use my code Redanne you will receive a 10% discount off your whole order.

I hope that Rusty gave you a little smile, I think I was channeling my inner child when I had this idea!  Thanks for looking and hope to see again on Friday with a special post....

Hugs, Anne xxx

Products from Inspiration Emporium

Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink

Ranger Alcohol Ink

Tim Holtz Distress Paint

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Textured Surfaces

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Sprocket Gears

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Gears

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Word Band

A Valentine Artist Trading Block

Thanks so much to my latest followers, it is lovely to have you along on my crafty journey.

This month, for my Design Team piece for The Artists on the Block I have used an Andy Skinner technique - Faux Letter Press.  You can find Andy's tutorial HERE.

I am very lucky as I received a box of paint and other mediums from DecoArt, as part of Eileen Hull's Inspiration Team.  The new Media Range of paints from DecoArt are my latest love, you can create soft colours with them or vibrant or grungy colours, as you will see in my piece today.

I have not done step by step photos because Andy explains them really well in his tutorial - and to be honest, I got a bit carried away and forgot!

Andy did use a variety of colours and sizes for his blocks but I used similar sized pieces so that I could add whole words, (Love You, Be Mine) rather than random letters.

The base is one of Eileen Hull for Sizzix Artist Trading Blocks, this is the largest one and measures 3" on all sides.  I painted the whole of the base block with black Gesso so that it would not soak up too much paint and then painted over with Raw Umber DecoArt paint. It only needed one coat.

The letters are from Tim Holtz - Ideaology Kraft Resist Chipboard Alphabet.  It is quite an old set, I simply sanded the shiny top, applied Gesso and then painted them the same way Andy did.  I used  Pyrrole Red paint for the letters, then flicked Carbon black paint over and then covered each letter with Quinacridone Red paint (it is transparent) which gives the letter a slight sheen.  The punched hearts were done in exactly the same way and then stamped with some latin type script.  The base for each letter is painted with Raw Umber and edged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

The flower was created using Tim Holtz's Tattered Floral die.  I used two of each design on the die, except for the spiky one.  It is years since I made one of these flowers but you can see how I did it in my blog post HERE - yes it is VERY old, but the technique works beautifully with any of Tim's Tattered Floral dies.

To finish off I added some wooden beads, as feet, also painted with Raw Umber.  I also tied some lovely red jute twine around the middle of the block.

I would like to enter my block into Pamellia's first challenge over at Frilly and Funkie, which you can find HERE.   The challenge is called Valen-twine and you must use twine, jute, cord or string. There is a $25 prize for one lucky winner to spend at the Funkie Junkie online shop.

I would also like enter Julia's challenge at the Artist Trading Post Exchange which is Flower Power! I hope my single big flower qualifies. There is a £10 voucher for the winner to spend at the Artist Trading Post on-line or bricks and mortar shop.

Thanks so much for looking, I will be back on Friday when we have a new challenge beginning over at A Vintage Journey, I hope you will join us then.  Hugs, Anne xx

Compendium of Curiosities #20

It is so hard to believe that it is week #20 at Compendium of Curiosities and even less that it is nearly February!

The technique for Challenge #20 can be found on Page 40 of Tim Holtz's Compendium of Curiosities III book - Distress Watercolouring Part 2. The rules are that we cannot share the technique and we must use our own copy of Tim's book.  If you still do not have a copy you can get a signed one from Tim direct, HERE.

  

One lucky person, chosen by the Curiosity Crew, will win a fabulous parcel of goodies from Tim Holtz and his Logistics Director, Mario. 

This challenge is being sponsored by the lovely Linda Coughlin of the Funkie Junkie Boutique who will give one lucky person a $25 voucher to spend at the Funkie Junkie!  Linda is getting lots of the new Tim stuff in very soon and Linda always offers discounted prices too.

When we did Part I of the technique I used some of Tim's Blueprint stamps so I have done the same for Part 2 and I made two simple cards, to enter into the challenge with.  

The seahorse from the Nautical Blueprint set is one of my all time favourite stamps so he took centre stage on this card.  I distressed all the edges to give a shabby look.

My second card uses the starfish from the same set.  I used an Idea-ology word band and some thin rope to add my sentiment to the card.

So there you have my entry to CC3C #20.  Thanks for looking and I hope to see you again very soon.  A big thank you to my latest followers, it is lovely to have you along on my crafty journey!

Hugs, Anne xx