Book of Ruination take two

Hi All,

This is another book I made using the Andy Skinner Book of Ruination online work shop.

Great course which you can do at your own pace and learn some fantastic techniques.

Out of respect to Andy I will not reveal how this is made.

Here's my book.

Many thanks in having a look at my post.

Any comments are welcome.

Thanks

Jamie

Rock Your Book

Hi All.

This is a continuation of my Book of Ruination post.

In Andy Skinners Book of Ruination course you also get a second book to try which is called Rock Your Book.

As with the first book this again is a fantastic course with step by steps instructions and videos to help. Again with various great tips on techniques.

I wont reveal how my book was made but here are the photos of my finished book.

Thanks for taking time to look.

Any comments would be welcome.

Thanks

Jamie

Butterfly Deep Box Frame

Hi all.

A short blog showing photos of a Butterfly Deep Box Frame I have made.

The butterflies are made using the Tim Holtz die.

Many thanks for looking.

Jamie

Book of Ruination

Hi all.

I have been looking for new ideas of craft items to try and that would suit my taste. After a while I stumbled across Andy Skinners work and really enjoyed his style, then found that he done online workshops that I could do in my own time and at my own pace.

So I decided to try The Book of Ruination course.

I must say it was a fantastic course and with step by steps instructions and videos to help. He also teaches you various techniques whichhelped me alot being fairly new to this kind of thing.

Obviously I wont reveal how my book was made but here are the photos of my finished book.

Front.

Back

Inside

I really enjoyed the course and was so pleased with my book, especially as this was my first attempt!

Hope you enjoyed looking.

Jamie 

Altered bottle

Hi.

This is my first altered bottle.

I started off with a glass bottle and applied a coat of decoart texture bottle. I used a brush for this and dabbed the texture to get some peaks to appear.

While this was drying (a good few hours) I used fimo clay and a mold to make a poison sign for the front of the bottle. 

This was glued to the bottle and i added some modeling paste to the back so it fitted the shape of the bottle.

I then added some string to the top of the bottle using glue.

This was then all painted and dry brushed using a few colours.

Here are some photos of my finished bottle.

Many thanks for taking time to have a look.

Jamie

Love heart number 2

Hi everyone. 

This is my new wooden love heart I made.

If you have seen my other blogs you will see I am really enjoying this type of craft.

I started with a wooden heart and started placing objects on the heart till I get the look I like. 

As you will notice from my final piece the shape of the heart and other items have changed.

Next I put a grunge paste tree bark effect all over the heart.

To this i gave a white coat of fresco paint, then  started applying various coats of different blues starting off with the lightest.

To the outer edge i started getting darker with french roast and a small amount of black dress. To this I added a gold edge.

Next I decided to paint my items before I stuck them down to the heart Instead of after as i have done before.

These were painted with my blue fresco paints and finished off with some treasure gold (great product to use).

I then stuck down my flatter Items before i added an amount of cheese cloth which i had paint with gold fresco paint. Then the remainder of items were stuck on the cheese cloth with bits of the cloth appearing between my items.

I added a small heart on the left side which was painted and stuck on more of the gold chesse cloth 

And my final finished heart... 

Many thanks for looking.

Jamie 

Love heart

Hi everyone.

This heart is made for a love theme. This heart was recently bought for me to give it a make over.

Mr first step was to place some items on my heart to get an idea of where I was heading.

As always I take a photo so I know where to put the items back.

Next i wanted to give the small heart some texture, so i put some grunge paste through a stencil.

I next started to glue my items down and give the whole thing a coat of gesso.

I started to think the background needed something, so i stamped in black some words all around the heart and gave this a few coats of white fresco over the top.

I originally had the idea to paint the small heart red and the flowers with creams and browns. Well after painted the heart red and a few coats of browns to the flowers i scraped that idea as it was not going together well. So i decided on lilac fresco paint and vintage plum wax. 

These two colours were all that i used.

I gave all the embelishments a brush with my plum wax and before i glued my last few flowers in place i added some cheese cloth behind them.

I added a butterfly which had some lilac and plum added to it. 

Not bad for a £1 on sale heart! 

Many thanks for taking time to look at my photos, any comments would be welcome.

Jamie