Laughing with Mort Tag

I still had the ring pull top off the Sardine tin I used for my altered sardine tin in the last post so I thought I would put it to good use as a tag. After all it was tag-shaped to start with.  I folded back the ring pull and used a pair of pliers to flatten the folded over portion. Suprisingly the edges are not sharp at all either but I thought they might be !

I then applied a piece of printed paper in a diamond pattern with multi media and once dry trimmed around the tin lid.

Next I stamped a distressed polka dot pattern in archival black ink over the paper and allowed to dry. Then I used a Versamark pen and selectively inked some of the diamonds which I then heat embossed with glossy claret embossing powder. Didn't want this embossing to be perfect looking in line with the distressed effect.  I then went around the edge of the tag with black soot Distress ink and a cut'n'dry foam applicator.

I found a piece of pink and white check paper in my bit box which I then stamped with 'Mort had a Pin Curl' from Stampotique and more archival black ink before colouring in with Copic markers.  The image of Mort was then trimmed out leaving a narrow border which again was inked with black soot Distress ink.

I then took a crown bottle cap and after lining with a circle of purple paper I put in a label in silver with the word 'Laugh'. I tipped in clear UTEE crystals and heated until molten and bubble free with the heat gun allowing this to cool completely. 

A fabric flower was coloured with matching Copic marker and distressed with more black soot Distress ink.  This was stuck to the back of the bottle top .

The tag was then embellished by sticking Mort in place as shown and applying the bottle top flower with a large sticky dot.  Some silver metallic marker was applied on some of the background dots and a length of coloured yarn tied through the ring pull to finish.

Sid xx

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Bottletop Canvas 'VALUES'

I decided to do small canvas to collage my bottletop art made for a swap run by my fellow crafter Hazel over on the UK Stampers forum. She challenged us to make a piece of artwork using at least one crown cork (beer bottle top). The collage is 7 x 5 inches in size.

Here is what I used to make it:

• Crown Corks (gold)
• 7 x 5 inch gessoed canvas
• UTEE (Clear)
• Embossed words
• Fabric Daisies
• Lumiere Paint (bronze, crimson)
• Glitz Spritz (Gold)
• Plastic flower stencil
• Stamps (squares background - docrafts, textured stripe - anitas, small leaf - see-d's morsels, postal stamp - crafty individuals, alphas - making memories magnetic)
• Brilliance Inkpad (platinum planet)
• Stazon Inkpad (cherry red & jet black)
• Swirl Chipboard
• Tissue paper (lilac)
• Paper Mod Podge (Matt)
• Metal Hinges
• Metallic snaps
• Printed card (calligrahy)
• Printed papers

Altered bottlecaps

I first made the altered bottlecaps. I selected some suitable colour printed images from magazines and cut out circles to fit inside the bottlcaps. These were stuck in place with glossy accents. Next I cut out some silver foiled words to fit inside the caps. I then added a small amount of clear UTEE and melted it with a heat gun (the cap was placed on a firebrick to protect surfaces from the heat). When the UTEE had melted I added another amount and again heated. This was repeated several times until the cap was nearly full with molten UTEE. The finished caps were allowed to cool completely before adhering to the selected fabric flowers with glossy accents.

The chipboard swirl was given a couple of coats of Lumiere metallic bronze paint and allowed to dry.

The printed calligraphy card was trimmed with fancy edge scissors into two pieces, these were edged with dark brown Whispers dye ink and stamped randomly with the postal stamp in gold ink.

The hinges were fitted with two snaps each applied with the cropodile.

The Canvas

The canvas was completely painted lightly with Lumiere crimson paint allowing brushmarks to show in an uneven manner. This was allowed to dry thoroughly. Next the plastic flower stencil was placed on the canvas and the rest masked off with paper. The gold Glitz Spritz spray was then generously sprayed over the stencil, removed carefully and dried with a heat gun. This was repeated as necessary. Next the textured stripe stamp was painted quickly with Lumiere bronze and stamped on the top left side of the canvas and allowed to dry (the paint was removed from the stamp quickly before drying). The squares background stamp was inked with Brilliance platinum planet ink and applied down the right hand side of the stamp. When dry a small leaf stamp was inked with Stazon cherry red ink and stamped in the centre of each of the squares.

The word 'VALUES' was stamped onto the lilac tissue paper in Stazon jet black, trimmed and applied as shown with the paper Mod Podge.

The canvas was then assembled as shown adhering the chipboard swirl and printed cards with glossy accents, the flowers with large glue dots and the hinges with super glue.

Hope you like it :-)

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