Make A Scene

We were challenged by the Funkie Junkie Inspiration Ave to make a scene this time around.  I was thinking what did I have that represented a vignette or a scene... 

Well.... the beautiful lion from Finnabair's Regal Lion mold was my inspiration.  I was thinking about creating a series of items that would fit in a treasure chest.  I heated up a big batch of gold and black embossing powder and poured that into the molds.  I let them cool off and popped out the pieces.  The embossing powder I had was mixed ended up with more black on the images than gold.  I wanted more gold to prevalent,  so I used the metallique wax to smear over the surface and add the gold highlights.

You can see the various pieces from the molds mixed in with the other treasures.

Then I decided to work on additional goodies to fill the treasure chest.  I pulled out pearls (Tim Holtz's bubbles or baubles work great) and had them ready to put in the treasure chest.   

I also envisioned gold doubloons and decided to create my own.  I started with cut circles die cut  from cardboard.  I covered both sides with versamark ink.  Then they were dipped into the mix of gold and black embossing powder.  Heated up to melt all off the embossing powder.  I repeated this multiple times to increase the depth of the embossing powder on the coins.   You can either re-ink with versamark and dip back into the embossing powder or heat up the coin holding it with rubber handled tweezer and dip it back in again and melt it right away.   Then to add an image to the gold coin you will ink up the stamp you want to use with versamark and then heat up your coin until the embossing powder is molten or soft and then place the stamp into the heated embossing powder.  Press down and leave to cool off.  Once it is cool you can pull the stamp out and have an impression on the embossed surface and your stamp will be clean.  (I only do this with the rubber stamps) 

There also had to be a treasure map!  I cut a piece of scrap paper and spritzed it with the same mica stain sprays used on the outside of my chest.  After it dried I added stamped script on the inside along with picking up some extra inky stains.  Then it was wrinkled and rolled up and tied with some twine. 

The remainder is a mix of shimmery buttons, old fake jewelry and a watch fob to add to my treasures!

To create the treasure chest: 

1. I drew a template for my box along with the circle for the arch on the sides of my top. 
2. I cut all the pieces based on my measurements and template. 
3. I ran all the cardstock through the texture fade cracked. 
4. I sprayed them all with two mica stain sprays (fallen acorn and unravelled)
5. I then assembled my box.  I reinforced the inside with sheets of cardboard that were sprayed to coordinate. 
6. The top was cut in strips to emulate wood strips.  They then were applied to a sheet of cardstock that was attached to the arched ends.   This was also reinforced with a rectangle of cardstock around the bottom.
   

The decorative trim is the lace dies cut from tissue paper and embossed with gold embossing powder.  They made a beautiful decorative edge around the corners.

Suzz

Products:

• Prima Finnabair Mould Regal Lions
• Prima Marketing Art Alchemy Metallique Wax - White Gold
  
• Idea-Ology Tim Holtz Holiday Baubles
• Sizzix Tim Holtz Vintage Labels Dies (Gold Pieces)
  
• Ranger Mica Stain Sprays Seasonal  #5
  
• Ranger Gold Embossing Powder(I used a mixed gold and black embossing powder)
  
• Sizzix Tim Holtz - Texture Fade - Cracked
• Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz - Exquisite
  
• Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz - Correspondence
  
• Versamark Watermark Ink