WOYWW #194

Good morning everyone...well I thought last week went quick but this week flew even faster… so it's time for the Wednesday blog hopping fun again ....known as WOYWW (Whats On Your Workspace Wednesday) all thanks to the very gracious Julia over at Stamping Ground… -thanks Julia x.
No idea what I’m talking about? Check out the Stamping ground blog for details.



 

So whats on my desk? 

 

So last week I had some acetate on my desk that I’d designed on my p.c using some old photos and printed out to have a play with… well I have started but not finished with them as I got side tracked playing with ‘loo paper’ I altered a Nesquick container (it's at back of desk with butterfly on) and covered container with loo roll and Klear and made butterfly in a mould with loo roll too (see previous posts this week). I also started stripping surface off of some old place mats too as they are sturdy and look like they have lots of potential for something or the other. Also have little book mark unfinished too which can just about be seen in photo.
Lastly been digitally designing a grungey card ready to print out in pieces.



Close up of butterfly on Nesquick container - love the texture

 

Acetates printed out, added some alcohol ink on back - half finished card using it too
which has some micro beads on the left hand side of it... what a pain they are when they go all over the place LOL

My other little space with placemats, managed to punch through a coaster
to make holes for a ribbon to hang it. On the left a chocolate mould and some
more butterfly 'loo roll' thingies in it.

 

 

digital design ready to print and make into a card
used my own kit called  'Grunge en Rouge'





Well that's my lot for today, so thanks for stopping by and I hope to visit you too today (or probably over next few days)... Happy Crafting - have a good week... Gill x

Upcycling Nesquick container

So this is following on from yesterday,

 

 

 

and after sticking on the loo paper and butterfly (made in a mould with the paper too) all was given a coat of Gesso.

Then using alcohol inks I attempted to try and loose some of the yellow which was the original colour of the container.  I could still smell the yummy chocolate that had been in it originally, that was distracting LOL...mmm.. nice.... where was I? ahh alcohols inks - I thought they would work on plastic, it did, but scratch it  and it seems to come off.

I put some double sided tape at top too and used holographic foil with paint rubbed over top.

I painted the main body with a diluted purple acrylic wash which showed up the fabulous texture.

I didn't smooth the paper down when sticking it and think the texture that the cheap loo paper and the Klear floor polish gave was quite interesting. 

 

 

 

 

Rubbed some metallic wax over the surface.

The antennae were made from florist wire, so I used silver alcohol ink on them. Added a little bit of iridescent glitter glue and some jewels on butterfly.

Its not brilliant but I'm glad I did it just to get the fabulous texture and to see how the moulds would work - potential maybe for some other projects.



close up shows the great texture that the paper and Klear gave when stuck down.

 

 

New project?  - I found some old place mats that had faded in the sun and were tatty. Seems a shame to throw them out so I have been stripping them of the top surface. They are nice and sturdy so lots of potential I think.
I might have thought about doing something and then sealing with heat resistant varnish to still use as a place mat, but have no experience of using that type of varnish.
Would be interested to know if any one used that? wondering if its too expensive and too many fumes ...and does it work?  love to know  if you know anything... thanks
 

 

 

 

Also this wekend I have been cutting up the acetate sheets I printed out that were shown on my last WOYWW #193 on Wednesday. The one above not finished yet, is drying.. I used Klear (getting addicted to that) to stick it onto the watercolour paper. The paper had one layer of water colour then some H20s added and a little glitter. The acetate had some alcohol inks on back too. I shall try to finish all of those acetate things for the next WOYWW.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by - hope you are having a great weekend x

 

P.I.Ms or whatever its called!

Some colours I always have trouble with - and yellow is one of them - might be cause once we painted a double room with a sort of mustard paint - but found in good daylight it was more a bright custard - it had to go!

 

So there I am with a shelf of bright yellow Nesquick containers which keep glaring at me. The only good point is that they still have a lovely chocolate smell from the contents that were in them.
So what do with them?

I also found in a drawer a couple of  'paper thingies' I'd made a few years ago - not sure what you call them, so I am calling them P.I.Ms - 'paper in mould', as that was how they were made. Got some old chocolate moulds which were a nightmare to get chocolate out of, so I pressed layers of damp cheap loo roll in and when they dried they came out of mould really easily. 

 

 

 

 

So I've started to cover one of the containers with the cheap paper and stick it on using Klear floor polish. If you've seen previous posts you will see I'm enjoying trying to find things to do with it.

I intend to eventually cover  the container with Gesso but at the top and bottom where the curved awkward looking areas are, will see if alcohol ink works. Found a nice paper butterfly made previously and wondered if this would stick on too.



 

 

 

 

 

Next time I make some of these P.I.Ms I will think it through more and fill it better so its flatter at back. This butterfly I trimmed and coated inside with Klear and its made it quite stiff;  I thought soaking it with the Klear might have made it loose it definition, but it hasn't. It seems to have stuck  onto the main body too. Probably need to add some more paper to try and loose the hard edges of butterfly.

Hoping to finish it over the weekend.