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/