Showing posts with label re-purpose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label re-purpose. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2012

The Long Horn State


 This is the 3rd project on my series using baby wipe container lids. My usual Modus operandi is to use items I already have in my possession or to purchase used but I could not find anything to fit this lid. So I purchases a new 5" x 5" canvas.


 I took the label off the lid and covered the back of the canvas with modeling paste. 


When the modeling paste was dry, I covered both the lid and the canvas with acrylic paint. 



Then I pulled out my miniature collections. Having lived most of my life in Texas I used a Texas theme.

 I inserted (using e600 glue) the blue Texas shaped magnet with a red rose that I had bought while visiting Tyler Texas and the Rose festival years ago and on top of that I glued a miniature cow skull and an illustration of a saddle from a business card. I also painted the black lava texture gel over everything.


 I then started adding details with "dot" paints and attached the hanger with Apoxie Clay.


Inside the lid I attached some letters and distressed them with acrylic. 

The finished piece without the lid.
The finished piece with the lid.