Afternoon darkling's
Hope we are all keeping well and enjoying some nice weather and a little bit of freedom? I must admit I am still not venturing out at all. I am enjoying my crafting and just pottering around the house not so much in the garden to be honest but then we have some cold day's but now things are getting a little better I might actually get out and do some gardening or venture out in to the spa room but then again maybe not haha!
So I have been making lots of cards and doing some mixed media with bottles, the contents of which were very tasty, I have made frames and lots of resin pieces too some of which I have used on the violin as seen in the pictures. I must admit I am a little obsessed just making the resin pieces it's rather addictive so now I have lots to use on several project's.
The violin I bought from a second hand store online, you know the one, it was in need of repair so that was good enough for my need's. I purchased some Tim Holtz key's for the "tuning" and some Prima moulds were used for the resin pieces and the chain around the back was a mould I had for a while using hearty clay to go around the frame of the violin. The rice paper on the back is from Stamperia.The wax I used was Art Alchemy in patina blue and also aged brass. I have used Pentart deluxe paste in truffles colour it's a lovely brown/gold colour. I used some gold metal paint but dry bushed that on and lastly used some mirror shine spray over the whole thing and it really gave it a patina look.
I must admit I wasn't happy after finishing the violin as it just didn't look at all how it was in my head so it sat in the corner of the living room taunting me with it's drab unfinished look, because at this stage I hadn't added the gold or mirror spray, so it just sat there and just stared and glared. So today I had just about had enough of the "look" & finished it off! The feeling of it actually looking like it was meant to, in my head, was brilliant I was actually happy with it. The Call it Keith came from my daughter, Katie, as I just couldn't come up with a name!😆
So with the next project's are already in the making. I will also be able to share some exciting news with you next weekend too so watch this space.
Take care peeps and stay safe
Nikki aka Moldy 💀
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