Reverse box canvas for Mitform Castings

 Hi there

Today I have my inspiration piece for Mitform Castings as their design team member.

I have used a box canvas and reversed it to create a shaddow box.  I fussy cut various pieces from the 12x12 Lady Vagabond papers and used the Mitform pieces to finish the composition.  

Products used:

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_wings_2/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/globus-earth_globe_ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/balon-balloon_ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/helm_nurka-ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/kapelusz-hat_ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/kompas-compass_ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/kotwica-1-ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/kotwica-1-ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/kolo-sterowe-ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_corners_7/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/walizka-suitcase_1_ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/walizka-suitcase_2_ste/

Time Machine for Mitform Castings

 

Today I have a little time machine created from an old clock base I found at a flea market.

I decided not to paint the clock or the metal pieces as they worked so well together in their original form.

There is a little engineering involved in this piece as I had to use a drill to make holes for the hinges and clock hands so that the doors could open and shut and the clock hands could hold them closed when the time machine is not in use..

I found that the 2 half circle pieces that make a full circle fitted the opening perfectly.  I glued the door handle onto the side with the circle and then glued some hinges to the edges.  Finally I drilled holes for the hinges into the clock base.

Next, I glued the steam shape on and added glue to the rim of the top of the clock and added the nice big gear.

I drilled a hole to fit the bolt that I screwed the two clock hands onto in the famous ten to two clock hand position... used on advertisements for clocks and watches to make it look like it is smiling.

Now the clock hands hold the doors closed when you are not using it.

and can be swung upwards when you want to put the light on inside and see Lady Vagabond in her music room.

I put paper on the floor and walls 

Tin foil on the roof to help reflect the light and added lights with double sided tape.

Now you can see Lady V nicely inside.

The items I used can be found here:

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_corners_3/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_gear/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/zawor-valve_1_ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_clock_4/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_clock_3/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_scale_1/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_scale_2/

Advent Calendar for Mitform Castings

 

This is my creative team piece for Mitform Castings... It is my dream advent Calendar full of Mitform metal pieces.  Well... one can make wishes... can't you?

I have used a base from a shop called Action and I removed the laser cut design from the center and created a new one using Lady Vagabond 8x8 paper and the 3D fireplace from the kit.

Christmas star for Mitform Castings

 

Every year after Christmas I go to the stores to buy the bargains to alter for next Christmas!  I picked up this cardboard marquee star for 50c!  

It came with the lights and battery pack

I painted the star to look rusty

Then added brown alcohol ink to the plastic bulb covers

I placed the Mitform Castings stars and glued them down.

Then I added the turquoise paint to make it look like verdigris

I popped the lights

I cut a back cover to hide the wires and hold everything in place

I folded up the edges so it fit like a box lid

I glued 4 of the 5 points so I can access the switch to turn the lights on and off

and... finished with adding some orange paint to the bulbs as they were still too bright.

These are the links to all the Christmas stars:

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_christmas_2/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/kometa_comet_1_ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/kometa_comet_2_ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/gwiazda_star_1-1_1-2_ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/gwiazda_star_2-1_2-2_ste/

Octoship Canvas for Mitform Castings

I really enjoyed creating this "Octoship" by mixing and matching parts of Stamperia moulds and then adding the perfect Mitform Castings metal pieces to finish it off.

I started with a base stenciled in Modelling paste and then covered that with the water based antiquing pastes by Pentart.

I used a babywipe to blend and remove the excess

Then I plotted my pieces.

I spay pained all my moulded pieces black and got out the gold Cerantica wax.

I waxed the stencil work on the canvas with copper on the left and gold on the right.

Using the turquoise antiquing gel I painted the Mitform pieces.

And put the whole canvas together.

Below are close ups of the various pieces

Here are the links to the items I have used.

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/zawor-valve_1_ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/bulaj-okretowy/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/helm_nurka-ste/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_clock_2/

https://www.mitform.com/produkt/mitform_set_scale_1/