Wednesday 23 July 2008

Mixed Media Monday "rust" & Crazy Amigo "sun" challenge



This was my first attempt at making rusty fabric (see earlier post for instructions). I also rusted some nuts and bolts and combined them to make a rusty sun. I used foam underlay as the backing as it is a good stable base as well as easy to sew through. The background is the rusty fabric with nuts and bolts sewn to it. Bonsai wire is used to make a sun and I threaded various rusty nuts and bolts on black wire to dangle. It was quite difficult to photograph so ended up taking the photo with it on my sun lounger! Really enjoyed challenging myself with rust.

11 comments:

Gillian .... said...

Unique and orginal piece of art Lorraine, I love your rusty sun, and the fabric has turned out really well, thank you for joining in this weeks challenge:)

Hermine said...

Its gorgeous.

Sandy said...

UNBELIEVABLE !!!!
Love this.

stampandscrap@mail.com said...

Wow Lorraine. This is a beautiful peice. Its great to look at. Must have taken you quite a while

Liesbeth Fidder said...

Wonderful and very original !

Emma said...

what a fab idea! love it.

~*~Patty S said...

You have transformed the fabric magically, Love the rusty sun you created!

Zuzu's Blog said...

OOooo very nice.. unusual and very decorative. well done

Rika said...

Fabulous!

Faye said...

So creative, Lorraine and really beautiful.

Anonymous said...

Wonderful sun! Diane