Faux Cracked Glass CC3 Challenge 30!

Well, I can't leave well alone...

I started this pair of goggles a back in April and have been at a stale mate with them as to how to finish them off...

Then I got busy with my canvas with the test tubes and decided some alcohol ink and some faux cracked glass would be good on them too.  So here is my entry no2 for the challenge...go figure, I don't enter this challenge for months, now I am entering twice in one challenge!  The instructions for this technique are on page 54 of Tim's Compendium of Curiosities book 3 so I can't tell you how I did that part of the goggles, but the rest I can, so here goes:

I bought some basic welding goggles.

Took them apart and sprayed them copper with standard spray paint from the hardware store.  Here you can see the sprayed bits on my desk as well as the little jar hiding behind the left top hat that is now missing its lid as it donated it to these goggles...it was the perfect fit!

I then had to hide the molded writing on the top of the goggles and did that by adding some cogs using glossy accents...

I added a left over ring from a previous pair of goggles I made from plumbing parts to the other eye of the goggles and dotted some glossy accents on it for texture.

 I also dotted some  copper dimensional pearls on the frame of the goggles for good measure and to repeat the texture.

When this had all dried, I painted over some of the areas with black distress paint to age it a bit as it was all looking too fresh and too clean.  Then I added some alcohol ink to the cogs and base of the goggles as well as creating the cracked glass effect which I carried over onto the metal frame of the eyeglass...

Above is the top and below is the bottom of the goggles.

There we have some goggles on a yet to be finished top hat!

The Funkie Junkie Boutique is back to sponsor Challenge 30, and sweet Linda Coughlin, the Funkie Junkie herself, has a fabulous $25 shopping spree for one very lucky CC3Cer!

Tim and Mario sponsor an awesome prize for the project chosen by the inspiration team, so head on over to Linda's blog Studio L3 to enter!  You still have a few days!

Just for fun I am also entering this into the challenge over at http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.com/