Industrial Altered Dolls Head for my Andy Skinner DT project.

Hi all

Yep, a totally weird one from me today for my Andy Skinner DT project this month.

I've had this tatty, bald dolls head for years. 

Time to use it or get rid of  it. And what better products than Andy's Lava Paste and his new 

Creative Expressions paints to give it a revamp.  Here's how it turned out.

Here's how I made it....

I took the dolls head, painted it with black chalky finish, then a coat of rust all over, even the eyes. Which then looked awful! Then layer a thin amount of the Lava Paste with a palette knife, like icing a cake. But for even more texture, then dab the palette knife up and down all over, the paste holds itself into little peaks.

 If you heat activate the lava paste you'll end up with something like this.

 Layers, and layers, and layers or paints in the rust, Quin Gold, Yellow, and Cobalt Teal.

 More layers - dabbed on with a sponge.

 I used plaster wrap all around where the hair would be to cover up the stubby bits and create a hat or skull cap type head cover. Then painted the hat with the quin gold, bit of rust and cobalt teal.

 More teal dabbed in to face area...then more and more layers of paint until I was happy with it.

Needed to cover the eyes as they bothered me. So feathers and metal 

embellishments from my stash transformed it from horror to industrial!

 A bag of bits from Wilko, think this bag cost about £2.50

Out comes the wire. I used it to make a metal headband. Then hooked it in and out of the holes on the base of a very old cake tin, to make the wire cage. A few more feathers on top, along with another metal embellishment to hide the stalks of the feathers and it's done.

Thanks for looking.

Suz

For a list of all the products, check out my post on Andy Skinner's blog.

Happy Halloween Skull Frame

Hi there.

My project for the October Craft Stamper Challenge Blog DT this month is this fun Halloween framed skull. There are some gorgeous Prima Moulds to be win, take a look here. 

I made stamped and coloured this fun skull at the same time as another one I have details of in my previous blog. For this one I used Andy Skinner Super Nova Media embossing powders to emboss his Skull stamp, coloured it with Distress Oxides and enhanced with markers and added gems to the eyes and chin.

 I decided which of Andy's new transfers to use on the frame. You can hold the see through sheet to offer up the designs against your base to help with placement.

 Then to ink up the mount that is inside the frame.

 I made it quite bright!

 Added the transfers - I LOVE them! And a bit of pen doodling to fill the empty space

 Then onto the gold frame...

 A coat of DecoArt chalky finish paint in Relic, which is a very dark, beautiful grey. Then I rubbed it back a bit to let some of the gold shine through. I stamped Andy's Grunge Wallpaper stamp and embossed with the Super Nova onto black card for the background.

Decided the skull was going on top of the glass for a bit of a change!

Used Metallic Lustre in Iced Espresso on the inside of the mount as it was a little discoloured, plus I just love the colour! 

 I wanted something pinging off of the frame so chose Andy's Gypsie Queen stamp, again stamped onto white card, but this time I used Wow white embossingpowder - and made sure I wiped the card with an anti static pad before stamping for a crisp image.

 I added some twisted rusty wire to suspend the moth.

 I found some rainbow coloured threads I've had for years, they colours went really well so I chopped some off and stuck a bunch behind the skull.

 A bit of double sided tape holds them up at the top, the rest are stuck underneath the skull.

 The 'Fig 746' image is part of the moth stamp, by putting it in the opposite corner to the moth it balances the project.

 I was really enjoying myself by this stage. 😍

Love how the flying moth looked.....gave her a selfie. 

And here is the finished piece. I with you could see how