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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Altered Cutlery ?



Well this is it ! My weirdest creation yet. I have called it 'The Tree of Life'. It's made from a black plastic fork obtained with a salad from Subway last week. It is part of a swap run by Hazel on UK Stampers Forum in the altered art section.

I made the tree itself using a stamp from PaperArtsy which was heat embossed with violet pearl EP on a background made with Adirondack wild plum and red pepper inks applied with a piece of cut'n'dry foam. Once embossed the tree was cut out and left to one side. In the meantime I made three shrink plastic embellishements which were stamped in purple Stazon ink on white shrink plastic sheet. The bird stamp was also PaperArtsy. The bodies were coloured with pink chalk ink before cutting out and shrinking. A metal leaf was attached with a square silver brad and a hole punched with the cropodile on the bottom right of the tree. An eyelet was applied. The mini tag was coloured and written upon and threaded with a metal tree embellishment with the ball chain as shown. The three birds were applied with mini glue dots as shown




Detail of tree



Detail of Tag


Next was to cover the handle of the fork. I took a long strip of mediumweight black craftwire and threaded it with alternating gold and blue glass beades with silvered centres until I had a length of threaded wire long enough to spiral around the handle to hide it completely. One end of the wire was wrapped around the middle two prongs of the fork and the beads pushed down to the top of the handle. I then commenced wrapping the beaded wire round and round the handle to the base where the last coil was made to trap 3 pieces of coloured velvet ribbon before securing the wire into the last coil.



Handle base and ribbon detail

I used big sticky dots to attach the tree to the front of the fork prongs, hence the reason that the tree is curved slightly (following the contour of the prongs). The whole thing was wrapped in white tissue secured with three pieces of the same ribbon.

This was certainly a challenge for me ! Hope whoever gets it in the swap is happy with it :-)

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7 comments:

  1. You are right it is wierd, but 'WIERD IS WONDERFUL'. It shows brilliant use of your imagination and creativity and whoever receives it as their swap will be thrilled, I'm sue.
    Sue

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  2. Amazing! You'd never know it started off as a fork! Must've taken ages to thread all those beads sid!

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  3. Fab bit of altering, Sid! Must have taken ages to thread that many beads onto the wire for the wrapping!

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  4. Very quirky piece of work Sid but I love it! I'm sure whoever receives it in the swap will love it too!

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  5. One word for you:"AMAZING".
    Shallale

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  6. Fantastic piece, is nothing safe in your world of altered art?

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