From plain to fabulous

I have these cardboard paper mache boxes. I love them, they are inexpensive, they are hearts, and I love brown paper covered things for some reason.
I have had these for a long time, I was going to do something with them but never did.

I used the top as a template on the black Cernit clay rolled out on the first thickest setting.
Cut out the heart that I traced.

I used the Crafter's Pick Glue for the top and spread some on it. A thin even layer over the whole top is all you need. Do not get it on the sides of the lid.
I then took the cut out black clay heart and placed it on the top of the paper mache lid and made sure it was lined up and gently from one side to the other pushed the clay to the box.
I stamped the heart with a stamp I got from Rubber Stamp Plantation, Lotus Corner.

I decorated the lid with a word mold "Believe" I made with large alphabet noodles, and some other molds I have made.
Then I took some Pearl-ex pigments and brushed them on the clay.
I used the Reflex Violet around the outside so that it would match the 569 violet Lumiere I was going to paint the box with.
You can see how to apply the Pearl-ex in this post
I used the same colors of Pearl-ex too!
I baked the box lid with clay in my home pre-heated oven to 275 degrees for 30 minutes. I then shut off the oven and let it cool in there until I could touch it with out pain. ;-D

When the lid was completely cool, I painted the box inside and out with Violet Lumiere and let it dry completely.

Tah-dah!

I wish I could transform myself this easily.

Collette Baron-Reid calls these "God boxes"

put your troubles in there and give it up to God.

I wonder if they make bigger(huge) heart boxes???

Remembering Christmas-Jodi's vase and Sisterfriend Day

I was looking for something else in all my files and I found the pictures from Christmas 2009. I made this for my best friend (sisterfriend) and it is one of my favorite pieces. I am sorry the pictures are so bad but as usual I was in a hurry at that time and this is one of the last pieces I made before Christmas arrived. I probably baked it the night before I went there.
I used vintage crystals another friend had given me and a cracked glass globe that was used for a project long ago (that was ugly, very old, and out dated).
I captured each crystal in black Cernit and added them one at a time to the top of the glass. I then added some little bits of clay here and there for detail.
Baked the whole thing and when it was cool, I washed it with Old Brass Lumiere and wiped off the excess.

In my case, sometimes it is good to be under pressure and time constraints and not to have time to over think something. I wanted to keep this real bad.


Today is Sisterfriend day and no housework day, I am, in honor of both days, telling you my sisterfriends, I love you and appreciate you so very very much and not doing any housework (LOL, something new and different, ya right, and this point, what my dear sisterfriend Renee would say "Harharhar!!")
Read my sisterfriend Ces' post about her declaration of this outstanding day of love!
http://cesandherdishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/sisterfriend.html
I appreciate you Ces, my dear sisterfriend, you are a brilliant light in my life!!

Marie Segal at Cafe Press

I love to work with my digital images, my work and just pictures I take.

This is a new one on the left. I haven't added it yet, I just wanted to show it. Meet Metal Mama.

I am having a great time and it seemed to me a shame to waste them by not putting them somewhere... so I decided to open a Cafe Press store.

www.cafepress.com/MarieSegal

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Just like we planned -


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