OK so it was alot longer than that, I'm actually talking Ten Second Studio fun.
Everywhere you look someones doing something with the fab new {well to me} range of tools and coloured sheets of metal from TSS.
And I'm no exception!!!
Last week I treated myself to the basic tool set and medium eraser set with some xmas money i received. I had brought some sheet metal at one of the craft fairs but forgot all about it really till i started to see metal fab creations everywhere, and i discovered the TSS blog and TACO Tuesday.. wow these ladies are talented, go check out there site if you haven't already.
Anyway i digress..
So i just wanted to have a little play and see what happened.. and here is the results.
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The first piece i did was just me messing about really, seeing what each tool did, and also trying one of my fiskers plates with the paper stump. It was ok till i decided to add colour using my alcohol inks... oh my... disaster... i was ready to chuck it in the bin but decided to TRY and salvage it, which is just what i did with the use of my brown stazon.{thank you stazon} The whole thing was bright and vulgar but adding the brown overcoat just dulled it all down and somehow transformed it {really must learn to take in between photo shots so you can see what I'm on about}
I ended up with a frame type shape in the metal and decided to fill it with a swan as i thought my piece had gone from ugly duckling to beautiful swan!! {well kinda pretty at least} and i added the word Beauty to the hand made wire hanger i created {i have some fab shop brought ones from Jennie at The Artistic Stamper} but wanted something a bit bigger so made my own.
I will probably send this in for the UK Art Raffle as the theme this month is SHINY, so if you like it, and want a chance to win it pop over to the site and join in the fun.
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{This piece also looks cool in different lights}
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