Anything Goes - Neil Walker

Morning all,

It's the weekend again!

Yay... hope you are all doing something

exciting!

Today Neil is here with his lovely

Curio Box.

I think this would make a really nice,

useful Christmas gift.

Neil says - 

For this project I thought I'd try something

a bit different and added some drawers

to my printers tray....

I began by cutting the drawers out of greyboard

as seen.  Every space is slightly different so

you need to play around till you get a drawer

that fits the space (keep it loose rather than

a snug fit to allow for the tape you will be adding).

Paint the insides and allow to dry.

Cover the drawers with masking tape or similar

to create and hold the shape.  Use a crop o dile

or similar to punch small holes for the handles.

Lay the drawers in position and use a mask

and grunge paste to add texture.  Neaten 

any messy bits while still wet and add some

of the same to the roof of the house too

and allow everything to dry thoroughly.

Begin to add colour with DecoArt Acrylic

Misters in assorted colours and dry.

When dry, add hitch fasteners for handles and

place the drawers into the unit.

Stamp the sentiment onto white card in Black

Archival ink and add to the large

aperture using 3D foam.

(Tip: cover the piece with DecoArt Faux Finishing

Medium to give a protective surface).

To finish I added a heart made previously which

I thought looked pretty cool and tied in nicely.

Now you have a little unit which is both pretty

and practical; there is place to display little

elements in the two apertures and drawers

to keep your embellishments too.

This is lovely Neil, thank you.

Materials -

Curio Box

3 Hanging Hearts

Tim Holtz - Hitch Fasteners

Tando Mask - Neil Walker Winged Pattern

PaperArtsy Grunge Paste

DecoArt Media Misters

From stash -

Greyboard

Masking tape

Well that's me done for another week,
your rest is over, it's Challenge
time tomorrow and you've got no more 
time off.
So what do you think it will be?????

I don't know myself yet!
Haha any suggestions would
be appreciated.

Jane x