Wednesday 28 October 2009

'Canvas'ing for Time!

It's been ages since a did a mini canvas, but the need to get inky was strong so i went with it.
I also hadn't played with metal for a long time... but after this project i remember why!
This is one of those times where you have an idea but it never quite goes to plan.. I thought i'd be clever and use one of my Mabel stamps and try and take a rubbing in metal, but being rubber it isn't as easy as i'd hoped and the whole thing nearly went in the bin, eventually with much much patients i got an image that looked almost like the stamp, i added colour in the form of sharpie pens to the metal to define the image further.

The canvas was created by inking it all over with a mix of the brown tone distress inks. I then stamped different clocks onto a sheet of tissue paper, i let this dry and then made a square on the same piece of tissue using the measure tape stamp from the Ephemera 1 plate roughly making the square so that when i wrapped it round the canvas the edges would be.. as seen below

Once i'd stuck the tissue to the canvas using gel medium i smoothed it over very delicatly and added more medium over the top to seal it all. I let this dry.
I stuck the metal to the canvas using E600 and also added several actual small watch parts.
I wording was stamped onto a piece of torn cardboard and also glued on, with the finishing touch being a small chain to hang the piece.
All in all a fun afternoon was had although i really need a masterclass on metal use lol
Thanks for visiting x
♥ HUGZ ♥

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love this and thanks for the welcome

Claireabelle said...

Wow Nicky, this is fantastic!! Great to see you altering again!
x

sam21ski said...

Well done for trying and persevering with the image, it looks fab xxx

cats whiskers said...

Oh wow stunning what fantastic work
Hugs Jacqui x

Julie Ranae said...

I love any project that uses metal...great, great job!

Kim Dellow said...

Oh wow - fabulous! Love the metal. Kim

Chris said...

Fab project. I've yet to try the metalwork and you've got me thinking it's time to have a go. :o)

Anonymous said...

this is a gorgeous little canvas nicky, love the metal image! x