Alcoholinky: melt pot

Sunday, 21 April 2013

More melt pot

I'm still loving the melt pot. Here's another little hanging I made. The background is covered in beeswax again and the flowers in UTEE. The original background had 3 flowers on it so I replaced these with the UTEE blooms. The hessian ribbon was dyed with spray inks to match.

Is anyone watching Paul Hollywood's bread series on a Monday night? I'm not a great bread maker but the soda bread does not need yeast and was so quick to make (no proving or rising needed). So I made one yesterday in double quick time and it got eaten just as quickly too. Accompanying it I also made the smoked salmon paté. I can highly recommend both. I've got a soda and stout bread currently baking in the oven!

Sunday, 7 April 2013

Melt pot fun

I borrowed my friend Pen's melt pot a few weeks back. Played with it for a while and then put it to one side but if anyone's been watching Create and Craft this week, you will have seen the great workshops that Hels Sheridan has been doing with the melt pot. So out it came again and I've made a couple of canvases. Boy oh boy oh boy have I enjoyed doing this!

You can buy beeswax pellets that dissolve quickly in the melt pot but I knew I had some blocks stashed away somewhere. So I rummaged around and found them and got to work with the cheese grater and ten minutes later had a nice pile of grated beeswax. The cheese grater wasn't very happy though lol.

The two background images are free digi downloads from the internet. They have been covered in beeswax. It's the first time I've used this but it gives a lovely matt finish.

I made the flowers from a Spellbinders die and the leaves are Memory box as is the Madera Corner which you can just see underneath. The flower above is made from some stiff fabric I've had in my stash for years.

This flower got dunked in the melt pot. (Into UTEE not beeswax). It give a wonderful porcelain finish. See the pic below to show how it catches the light.