Thursday, December 4, 2008

My first Altered Domino

This week the challenge over at One Powerful Hour is to alter a Domino...

Set by Louise from Zuzu's Petals' n Stuff

I have never altered a domino before in my life...so for my very first ever attempt I decided to go simple...and I am not happy with it...so next time I will challenge myself a bit more. To me this one looks like all the all the others..and on top of that it came out Purple...I hate purple, it was suppose to be a deep eggplant...

So I alcohol inked the domino, then I stamped the image. I attached a small bit of German scrap that was pink but I colored it silver with a Krylon ink pen. The word I cut out of a book and attached it with a mixture of glossy modge podge and a pearl ex powder. I outlined the edges of the domino with my Krylon Ink pen.

The wings are black embossed on some of my Twinkling H2O paper and then I cut them out (obviously) and attached them to the back. I also added a layer of the Twinkling H2O paper to the back to cover up where I attached the wings and the dots on the playing side of the Domino.

I ran out of time but I want to add a metal halo over her head. I think I will have to drill a very small hole in the top of the domino and insert the metal and fill the hole with glue...we will see if I ever actually get around to doing that since I am not a fan of my domino...

thanks for looking

6 comments:

Zuzu's Blog said...

Oh Caro.. what don't you like about it??? I think its lovely..
Is it too girlie for you.. with the pinky purple and glitter??
I am not sure what displeases you about it.. so if you want to post it to me for closer inspection I can let you know and maybe .. I mean definitely send it back.(trying to look Innocent *giggle*)
OK I am just trying to get free craft pressys lol

Kaz said...

I can't believe you don't like this, it's stunning!! love everything about it.

Lisa Fulmer said...

I think she's very sweet - I've never altered a domino either....

Anonymous said...

How original - and how sweet - love her

Anonymous said...

Lovely...I love the color! Great job on your first time.

Lolarose38 said...

Sorry, i am late to this - I like it too!!! I love the wings...did you ever make her halo?? I've just started making domino art, so i am happily looking around for inspiration. Thanks for inspiring me!!