Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Lots to Do Challenge - Alter

So, after entering last weeks monochrome challenge over on the Lots To Do Challenge blog I decided to entrer this weeks challenge-Alter.

So, on Saturday I scoured the charity shops and found this very boring and plain letter rack for £2.49

and turned it into this:


First I sanded the blank rack and applied a layer of white gesso to give an even base. Then I painted it with ranger paint dabbers in lake mist and pearl and distressed the edges with distress inks. Next I stamped some old text, earth post stamp and post marks onto tissue paper with green and black stayz on, adhering them with modge podge. I added a vitage postcard sticker and a postage stamp and gave the whole thing a coat of modge podge.

I then got out the hot glue gun, adding scrabble letter tiles and then a coating of varnish to protect....once its dry it sit proudly by my telephone.

I hope you like it and enjoy checking out the other posts on the LTD challenge site

Happy Crafting

Li'l Pidge x

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11 comments:

  1. crafty creations29 September 2010 at 16:57

    What a wonderful transformation and so useful too - love everyhting you've done too it

    Thanks for sharing with the Lotstodo Challenge x Hilda

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  2. Kyla29 September 2010 at 18:05

    Thanks Hilda

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  3. Sue1 October 2010 at 08:41

    This is fab, I'm a Mod Podge girl myself and know what wonders it can perform. I love the scrabble letters you have used x

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  4. Jaqi1 October 2010 at 09:36

    Wow, what a great find, and I love what you have done with it. I love these fab boxes just crying out to be altered. Its made a great letter rack , bet you get lots of pleasure out of it, and heres hoping you get some nice letters to put in it and not just bills lol

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  5. Shairon1 October 2010 at 09:41

    Fab take on the alter challenge. I love all the elements you've chosen and the colours!

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  6. mommabear1 October 2010 at 16:13

    Brilliant transformation and usefull too just love it xx Thanks for shareing with us at LTD this week xx Alison

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  7. Kyla1 October 2010 at 20:58

    thanks Ladies, ~I enjoyed altering it-need to do a sweep of the charity shops again!

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  8. Zoechaos1 October 2010 at 22:01

    WOW fabulous great charity shop find to start with and transformed into a great new piece of storage. Thank you for sharing with us again at LTD. xx Zoe

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  9. Kyla3 October 2010 at 21:23

    thanks Zoe

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  10. Lorraine3 October 2010 at 23:38

    like what you have done with this letter rack..very nice use of distressed paint

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  11. Kyla4 October 2010 at 00:08

    thanks Lorraine

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