Doing the FAT thing on a Wednesday!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 11:53AM 
Just finished this week's piece of Found Art! It is a lucky charm, I've had an idea of making charms for a while but I couldn't think of something interesting to make, until I found this small mint tin box lying around and then the "aha!" moment came.
I took off the lid and made a small collage with different papers, letter rub-ons and a little drawing with black india ink. I also used a date stamp of May 20 2008 (this last Tuesday's date). I added a ribbon and a tag with the Found Art Tuesday flick group address (just in case someone tries to find out more about it) and that little cameo thing is a button.
I sealed the collage with epoxy resin and since it looked so shiny and I wanted a more aged look, I tried to "age it" by scratching and poking it with a wire when it was just about set, then I added brown acrylic paint.
I have to say that the thing I like the most about it is the picture above. I used a "cinemascope" effect I found at an online photo editor called Picnik, (thanks to sk8ordiehard for the link!) that effcts makes anything look cool.
Here are a few more not so cool pictures. I am leaving this today at Starbucks!
Reader Comments (3)
I think all of your pictures are cool! And the little tin you decorated is very cool too!
Also, thank you for sharing picnik too. I recognized the name from picture editing on flickr, but I didn't know you could take your pictures to their site and use so many awesome tools there. I'm in heaven.