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Thursday 29 August 2013

Creating with the Melt Pot

 
I have recently been inspired to start playing with my melt pot again and I thought I would enter this into Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stamper challenge of "metal". I had a paper mache box which I decided to alter using the melt pot, and I wanted to incorporate as many techniques as I could.
I started by colouring the base of the box by spraying it with acrylic paint which I had diluted and put in a mister bottle.  When you do it this way it doesn't take long to dry.  I then stamped on it with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink and a Ranger peacock feather texture tread.
For the lid I used beeswax to adhere some Tim Holtz tissue wrap and then overlayed with parts of a paper napkin. I dipped the edges of the lid in the melted marbelized UTEE and then quickly pressed them into the texture tread. The embellishments were made with UTEE as well, the heart was made by pouring the UTEE into a cookie cutter which was sitting on the texture tread and allowed to cool.  The flower and leaves were dipped into melted clear UTTE to create faux enamelling.
Once I was happy with how they looked they were adhered with glue gel and a metal key with a ribbon tie was added to the heart.  I then spelt out "craft" with Tim Holtz plastic letters, but you could put whatever you like.
If you want to join in this challenge or just have a look at the sample, here is the link;




8 comments:

  1. Hi Marita, this is a stunning creation, I love how you have made this papier mache box so metallic; beautifully decorated too..I just love my melt pot too! Carole Z X

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  2. Gorgeous creation Marita, love how you used the Melt Pot for so many different thing... Thanks for joining in with the Sunday Stamper x

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    1. Thanks for the lovely comments. I had great fun making it.

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  3. Wow Marita, I just love your gorgeous altered box! Your UTEE embellies are beautiful and thanks for the tip about the paint in the mister, I will definitely try that one...... I am new to melt potting (thanks to Hels) but love it too. Hugs, Anne x

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    1. Thanks for your lovely comments. I'm sure you will have lots of fun with your melt pot. Hels sure has a lot to answer for! Lol!

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  4. this is stunning!! love all the techniques you used and it's all come together beautifully!!

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    1. Thank you. It's lovely hearing such positive comments. Thank you too for following my blog.

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