Hi everyone, I’m here to share with you lovely hanging for ways to use fabulous stamps by Nicci Bttilana.
My original planned to just put her inside the dome, but it was not interesting enough, so I decided to make it an interactive wall hanging that someone could swing it from time to time.
I took a very fun Stephanie Rubiano workshop on shrink plastic a while back. I made these using that technique as a reference. This is the swinging wall hanging. The cute Nicci's stamps image was a little big to shake around inside the dome, so I decided to use a shrink plastic material. Now I will show you the process of making it.
These are stamps and paints used in my project. Nicci Bttilana Set 01,07 (ENB01, ENB07 ),PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Red Lipstick, Cerulean and Banana.
This time I used shrink plastic for inkjet printers. First, stamp the image on the paper and paint it with a light color diluted with water. (The finish on the shrink plastic will be darker than the original color.) The image is then scanned into the computer, saved as a .jpg file extension, and printed on the shrink plastic using image printing software. Cut these images.
If you do not have plastic for inkjet printers, you can use regular plastic. First, the back side is sanded with a fine sander and the Nicci image is stamped on the front side, which is then dried and colored with colored pencils from the sanded back side. The piece is then cut and baked in a toaster oven until it shrinks, then removed and flattened with a tile or similar. After the heat is removed, paint the back side with white paint.
These are then taken out of the oven and joined together at the T-pin where they have cooled. I went with T-pin because it is adjustable to swing the doll.
The plastic will shrink by about 40% after heat treatment, and the color will be darker than the original as you can see as shown in the photo below. Now that the cute kitty is done, I move on to the next action.
Moving on to the blog topic Specimen Jar, I decided to use new Gwen Lafleur set 26 (EGL26) cloche/dome stamp and put Nicci Battilana set 01 and 07 (ENB01, ENB07) Cat in it. I painted with the PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic,Banana (FF196) from the cloche/dome shape outward on the paper in gradient tones.
Surface of that paper I decorated the ENB07 skulls with Ranger Distress Oxide in fossilized amber around the cloche/dome .
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic, Slimed(FF)and Teresa Green(FF) was applied to the Smoothy (Heavyweight) A4 white card and the top of the ENB01 bone was stamped in Ranger Archival Emerald green and cut to create the side decoration.
For the wall framing, tear off pieces of the PaperArtsy Printed Tissue and apply the surface of the Smoothy (Heavyweight) A4 white card. I then painted with a diluted layer of gesso.
I applied PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic, Blue Lagoon and Midnight randomly on the paper for a little variety.
The frame is trimmed with white gel pen and red posca to create a slightly fun atmosphere.
The top of the frame is embossed with red embossing powder in VersaMark on the tissue with ENB07 quote.
The background of the box for the swing cat doll was painted with a watered-down coat of Blue Lagoon on paper pasted with the same PaperArtsy Printed Tissue used for the frame. This Tissue is a useful that will have many uses in the future.
A swinging cat was suspended in the upper box using T-pins, and acetate was used for the glass surface of the cloche dome.
I added a few embellishments to complete it, here the spider in ENB01.
Dounia Large Mini MN114 labels were added.
Now let me show you how swinging it is!
I had so much fun making this project that I made a pendant using a small cloche/dome. Instructions for making this cute cloche/dome miniature doll can be found on Stephanie Rubiano's Freebies site.
The baby-batman made with ENB01 and ENB07 was the perfect size for this small cloche/dome.
Compare the size to these coins. The left side is 10 pence-UK and the right side is 1dollar-US.
To make the doll stand in the dome, small nails are painted white and attached to the legs; to make it sit, small cubes are used and attached to the pedestal. Glass glitter and beads are then laid on the base.
It is a cute finish and would make a great gift for children.
Shrink plastic material was not too difficult to produce, as I am sure you are familiar with using it often. And it was fun to use the Nicci stamps to create a moving puppet, and there are two other sets of paper puppet stamps that can be combined to make them dance in a tag or journal.
