quarta-feira, 23 de julho de 2008

Rust - Mixed Media Monday



This week's Mixed Media Monday challenge is to make something with rust.

I altered this chocolate box a while ago and I've been using it to keep cards and letters ever since. It's a hard plastic box and the top was transparent, so I started by coating it with Rembrandt's pearl green acrylic paint. Next I découpaged the napkin flowers and the Stamperia ducks on it. Then I applied Decoart/Rayher's  Antique Medium I and II to obtain a crackling effect. For the rust effect I then used Ceramichrome Mineral Spirit Translucent Stain (MS1 Walnut). It  was very dark and had a very heavy look, so I had to wipe off the excess rust and apply some white acylic paint to make it softer.

8 comentários:

Gillian .... disse...

Beautifully altered this box has such a delicate feel to it, thank you for joining in this week's theme.

Hermine disse...

Beautiful box

stampandscrap@mail.com disse...

Wow this box is Lush. I adore it. It looks like a real old treasure

Emma disse...

gorgeous altered box, love what you've done with it.

Zuzu's Blog disse...

Oh wow!! i think I know the very chocolates you had in there.. you have made this box magnificent. Very aged vintage and feminine. a lovely little treasure. very well done.

right .. add to the supermarket list for saturday .. large box of chocolates (and I am not sharing them) well its for an important project lol

~*~Patty S disse...

What a beautiful and special box! Thank you for sharing how you created it, it's really Lovely! I hardly ever throw boxes away, you've inspired me :)

Anónimo disse...

This is wonderful! Thanks for participating on Mixed Media Monday. Diane

Sarah disse...

Your box is simply stunning. Love your crackle effect absoutley beautiful