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Sunday 23 September 2012

Steam punk hat

This is an altered headress which I found the chalI lenge on  Ink Stains, http://inkstainswithroni.blogspot.com.she has a beautiful altered hat on her page, she directed to the site Altered Headress Challenges.   I got the pattern for the hat out of the August issue of Craft Stamper, and although I didn't have  a lot of the items required, I gave it a go.   Instead of the Grunge Paper I used black cardstock, and I covered it with Kindyglitz black opal for the glitter and strength.  I used twine for the lacing but put it the wrong way up the box should be at the bottom of the eyelets.  I used various colours of eyelets as I have had them in my stash for over 40 years, just using one or two as required, but I never let them go!  I painted them with acrylic paint so they were all the same colour.  I used a feather that one of our grandsons gave us that he found in the garden and some pearls on wire, the maroon flower and the little red one have been in my stash for ages.   The littlee clock and owl are also out of my stash, but I used a Tim Holtz small gear under the red flower.  

12 comments:

  1. Very cool hat Jasann!! I love it :) So glad you took up the challenge!

    Good Luck!!

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  2. Wonderful creation anyone would be proud to wear!!
    Jean Moore

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  3. You have created an awesome headdress ! Thanks for joining in on the challenge
    Eunice

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  4. Wow Jasann this is a fabulous hat for the Alter Your Creativity Challenge. I love the lacing and the black kindy glitz as it has tiny bits of red sparkling that pick up the colors in your beautiful flowers. A fabulous hat for our very first entry. Thanks so much for joining us at Altered Pages Challenges and Good Luck!
    Danie xx

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  5. Love your headdress - very sparkly and colorful - lots of fun.

    Thanks for playing in the challenge!

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  6. Very fun! So glad you could play along with us! :) Becky V., AP DT member

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  7. thanks to all of you fore your lovely comments - Jasann

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  8. Fabulous altered steampunk style hat, Jasann!! Thank you so much for joining in the fun with the first ever Alter Your Creativity challenge at Altered Pages, and good luck to you!

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  9. Oooh wow Jasann, I'm so impressed with your hat, it looks gorgeous, well done trying my design with card, you'll find grungepaper just more flexible to work with. Wonderful steampunk and love the sparkly colour... think I will have to create a sparkly one now lol! Great detail with the feather too!
    Thanks
    HuGs Kim :)

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  10. Oooh wow Jasann, I'm so impressed with your hat, it looks gorgeous, well done trying my design with card, you'll find grungepaper just more flexible to work with. Wonderful steampunk and love the sparkly colour... think I will have to create a sparkly one now lol! Great detail with the feather too!
    Thanks
    HuGs Kim :)

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  11. Oooh WoW Jasann, your hat is fantastic!!! Love the steampunk and the sparkly colours... might have to make a sparkly one myself now LOL! So pleased you had a go with my design using cardstock, the grungepaper is more flexible to work with!
    Hope you had fun. Love the feather detail too!
    Thanks
    HuGs Kim :)

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  12. Your headdress is wonderful! Love stampunk. Thanks for playing with the Altered Pages team!!!

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