What Can Ya Do With This Stuff? Part 3....

Well, you could do a lot with it, just depends on you imagination. Thank gawd for Imagination and Tools! What would you do with it?
 

Since I’ve been on an ALTOIDS tin kick lately (see last post), the decision was to Keep Calm and get on with it! Do you see those tiles at the bottom of the first pic?... those are Formica tiles samples...some of them were gesso prepped to be used in the last workshop I taught. Huh, they never made it into the stash of classroom supplies. The idea was to make a “book like” thingy to go inside the tin. Nope, never happened. But the idea still lingered in the ‘ol noggin so I put it aside in the Later Reference Files brain compartment.

Last week I came across a challenge while visiting some Art Blogs. One is over at Three Muses (they have a weekly art challenge every Wednesday). This particular challenge piqued my interest and set it on fire. Steampunk! Oh yeah! *reaches into the Later Reference Files and pulls up the Formica tiles “book like” thingy* Oh I got busy on this one right away so it could go into the challenge. Who knows, it may show up in other places. Here it is...love the way it turned out too.

Shout outs go to The Graphics Fairy for some awesome graphics to play with and Spirit's Journey Designs. Other images came from various places (wish I could remember….brain freeze). Thank You all!

Some serious collage, mixed media, assemblage goin’ on here. I intentionally painted it all over so that it wouldn't close….to give you a tiny peek inside. How or why I came up with the color is beyond me. What was I thinking?! But it worked out tho. And because of the Formica tiles (5 of them), it has a bit of weight to it. The eyelets and jump rings used completed the set. A perfect match indeed. Just pull the tiles out by the little key to see all the dapper gentlemen inside. Sprinkled with bits of watch parts here and there. See those rusted gears in the pics? That’s my next project/challenge. Thanx for stopping by….see ya soon!

What can ya do with this stuff?...Part 2

Hi all, thanx for stoppin’ by today. 

June UPDATE: The Steampunk Top Hat Birdhouse is also in another challenge "Birds of a Feather" over at Alter It Monthly's Blog. 

This is another installment using recycled packaging from around the house. My latest challenge was for a Paper Mache swap over at iATC’s. So I got busy letting’ those creative juices flow through the hands...had no idea where it would take me, (never do really).


I knew I wanted to make a bird house with a vague image of a house in mind...but as you can see, it morphed into something completely different. This was not what I saw. I did make a house (for the swap)...and it turned out to be a crooked little house. This in turn brought back the nursery rhyme “There was a Crooked Man”. And the bird house? The Steampunk Elementals (gnomes) showed up and took over for a time. ...well, the evidence is clear that those lil’ tinker's went on adventure with a Top Hat (smart lil’ buggers). The Crooked House is 6.5” tall and the Top Hat is a tad under 4” tall.