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Dress Form Altered Milk Tin

Hello!  Today I would like to share with you my Dress Form Altered Milk tin.

For todays project I used the products below:

Sakura Milk Tin
Gesso
Pink Acrylic Paint
Crayola Air Dry Clay
3D Crystal Lacquer
Cameo Silicone Mold
Lace/Trim/Feather
Stamps
StazOn Ink


I prepped my milk tin by painting it with white gesso. Then I made a dress form out of air dry clay and placed it on top of my milk tin lid making sure I could still use my lid to take on and off my milk tin. She is a little lumpy and bumpy but I will be covering her.

I let that dry overnight and painted it all pink the next day.

I also decided to make her a hat.

 

 With my stamps I used un-mounted stamps so I could follow the curve of the tin. If they had been mounted on wood or acrylic blocks it would have been harder to stamp. I stamped with Black StazOn Ink all around the tin.

 

 Here is the back of the tin all painted and stamped.

 I made a cameo with my silicone mold and poured crystal lacquer into the mold. When it was dry I painted it white.

 My mold had a trim on the cameo that I cut off with scissors. (the trim was originally made with Sakura colored lacquer.) I wasn't sure I was going to use it or not but it looked better without the trim.

 Next it was time to play dress up with my dress form. I used lace pieces that I sewed a simple straight stitch to make her dress. I glued her lace on the top of her hat.

 This is the back of the tin/dress form.

 Here is the cameo I placed on her waist.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. You can get your own products from
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Vintage Mermaid Plaque

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 For todays project the materials I used are:
Wooden Plaque
Sakura Crystal Lacquer
Terri Sproul Shimmer Mixers
White Gesso
Image of choice -
 I colored my image with Copic Markers
Stencils (MS and homemade ones)
Molding Paste
Teflon Craft Sheet
Painters Tape
Embellishments
Background Stamp
StazOn Ink/Ranger Distress Inks/tool
Spellbinders Die/Big Shot
                                                
First thing I did was color my image with my Copic Markers.

Then I prepped my wood plaque with white gesso and let dry.
 I stamped my background stamp with StazOn Ink
so it wouldn't smear or run.

Next I wanted to cut out my image with Spellbinders die

but as you can see my image is too big for the die..

So, I traced around my image with the die where

I wanted the die to cut.

Then I cut (with scissors)  the part of the image that was sticking

out of the traced lines.  I lifted my image over the die

so as to only cut around my image without cutting off the bottom

when I ran it through my Big Shot

After it was cut with my spellbinder die I used

Ranger Distress Ink /w Distress Tool to color the edges of my image.

I prepared a mixture of Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul

Shimmer Mixers making my Lacquer translucent enough to
see my background image on my plaque.
Then I set it aside for a moment while I added some texture.

I decided to add some texture with Molding Paste and MS Stencils.

Here I even added some Shimmer Mixers to the Molding Paste.

Then I added texture with my

homemade stencil (made from packaging)

After it was completely dry I covered the entire

plaque with my colored Crystal Lacquer. (prepared earlier)
making sure I got into all the crevasses.  

With my left over Lacquer I added more

Terri Sproul mixers to make a deeper blue

and dripped the Lacquer onto my craft sheet

and let them dry.

While that was drying I coated my image with

Clear 3D Crystal Lacquer.

I taped down my image on the edges to help prevent curling.

After It was dry I put it all together,

using my drips as embellishments (to resemble air bubbles) 

I used Crystal Lacquer to glue my pieces down.

Here she is on my wall

 

Thank you for looking, I hope you have enjoyed your time with me!

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Vintage Altered Milk Tin

 

Hi! Today I am going to show you how
I altered my milk tin. The list of supplies I used are:

Sakura Hobby Craft Milk Tins
Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer

Terri Sproul Shimmer Mixers

Adirondack Metallics Paint Dauber Gold

Vintage Graphics Printed from Laser Printer

Mod Podge

White Gesso

Lace/Trim

Embellishments

 

 

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First I painted my tin with white gesso.

 Then I printed my Vintage Pictures Inverted

so when I Mod Podge my picture face down it would be a mirror image.

 

 

Next I Took a foam applicator and applied them to my milk tin

 

Then I placed my image face down onto my tin.

I did not mod podge after application as I did not

want a resist from the mod podge when I colored the tin.

 

When completely dry I soaked down the paper

with water and rubbed off the paper, creating a

transferred image with only ink remaining on my tin.

 

 

And as you can see my inverted picture is now facing the right way.

As I keep rubbing off the wet paper my image becomes clear.

 

 



I did the same method to my second image.

 

I mixed up some shimmer mixers from

Terri Sproul with water and binder powder.

Then I painted and drizzled down my tin and added some

gold paint rubbed in with my fingers until I was happy.

Then I took a rag and cleaned off my image

and cleaned the can a bit by rubbing it with a cloth.

 

 

Next I started to place my lace and embellishments.

 I used 3D Crystal Lacquer as well as hot glue. 

 

 

 

Here I made a flower embellishment with a piece of

 lace gathered and I used 3D Crystal Lacquer to adhere it with a pearl center.

 

 

 And the final photo..

 

 

 I hope you enjoyed todays tutorial and don't forget 

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for the entire month of May.