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Thursday 21 May 2015

what lies inside?..for Country View Crafts

Well for my second contribution to the Simply Scenic challenge over at Country View Crafts.. I tried to create and inside out window...a bit like looking into the window of a Chemist..using the inside of a canvas and an old ikea mirror...so here is my make :


 I started by covering the wrong side of the canvas and sides in tissue tape and smudging some peeled paint distress paint across it in patches.


I then gave it a good spritz of pumice stone distress spray stain to give plenty of splatters.


I found an old ikea mirror that had already been painted and crackled and thought this would make a good backdrop for my chemist's window. I added some peeled paint through patches of the new Tim Holtz brickwork stencil to make it look like a surround for the window.


here is the window , complete with Chemist and the scene inside of the mad scientist creating who knows what?!


i had great fun as always playing with idea-ology and love filling these little bottles!




So hope you like my second piece for the simply scenic challenge over at Country View Crafts challenges. there is still time to enter..


keep those fingers inky!
trace x

17 comments :

  1. Brilliant ideas Trace. I love how you've used that frame on the mirror. Jenny x

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  2. This is amazing with so much to look at both in techniques and wonders you added as well. The little cork left out of the bottle at the bottom is genius Trace.

    Love Chrissie xx

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  3. Trace, you always create amazing pieces with the Chemist stamps and this creation is no exception - I love the fantastic wall you created at the back - love this! Hugs, Anne xx

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  4. Love this trace.....so effective...great details both in and out x

    Tfs and I hope your health is improving

    Hugs Annie x

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  5. Great piece Trace, I like the touches of green and how you used the frame . Tracy x

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  6. A Fantastic piece of wall art ! Trace . Really love how you have brought all this together to create such an eyecatching piece . Again you use the perfect colour palette n ideology to set the scene - love the cork falling from the bottle !Great idea too to mount the canvas onto the mirror .

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  7. Love this Trace!! This is a scene straight out of a movie that I would love to watch! Especially love the little bottle that has spilled over with the cork hanging out, how wonderfully creative! hugs :)

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  8. super cool Trace! I just love it! TFS

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  9. as an ex chemistry teacher this really appeals to me - love it Trace - fabby! Hugs rachel xx

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  10. This is so cool! I love it!

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  11. Oh please, please, please let me copy this masterful make!! I am a Halloween aficionado (that's a fancy way of saying freak). I love this so much and want to make one to hang in my home and one for a friend. What do you say kid - I am old enough to be your mother!!
    BWA-ha-HA-HA-ha-HA-ha-HA-ha-ha!!!v zesty
    I really love your makes !
    Sandy xx

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  12. This looks a perfect historic looking chemist, full of old fashioned lotions and potions. So much care and attention has gone into this and it shows - it is amazing xx

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  13. Oooohhh, this is sooo fun, Trace! It's almost as if this chemist is tempting us inside his shop, to perhaps tempt us to imbibe the mysterious contents of those creepy bottles!! :) :) Just a fabulous creation!! XOXO-Shari

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  14. Love this framed frame Trace! The color grey/green colors are perfect - love all your potion bottles and stampings - this is really awesome! Julia xx

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  15. This is so fun Trace, looks as if we are at the shop. Really love the way you did the vile as if you could scoop some out. So cleaver. S@ndy xx

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  16. What a totally fantastic shadowbox scene, Trace - really clever, and with so many cool textures and ideas. Love the cobweb tissue tape on the frame, and the little vials look so brilliant.
    Alison xx

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  17. Such a great make Trace...nice and clever details...especially the green paint running out of the little jar!
    Greetings and thnx for your kind comments on my blog, Alie:-)

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