My kitchen companion!

Hello crafty friends..

Wishing you all a very Happy new year. Sharing my first project for 2016 and my DT creation for Rhedd’s creative Spirit where every month it’s “anything Goes” altered art or mixed media only.

I have an altered project to share today...my kitchen companion for twenty years now! Yes, it’s my good old kettle...my first buy after marriage and it has served me so many years until it gave away a few years back.

 I had neglected it and abandoned it in my garden as a planter and almost forgotten about it until I happened to be cleaning my garden.

I spotted this old fella, all weathered and chipped with a broken handle and I told myself “this is not how he is meant to be” and yes, he made it to my craft table the very same day, all cleaned up!

I gave a good clean up and mended the handle and tied a nice thick twine all around to ensure thet he can be carried around safely! Once that was done, I decided to start the makeover...

Step 1 - I was more than happy to use my new dylusions paint for this project. I first sponged gesso all over the body and spout and when that was dry, applied the dylusions paints in parts. I have used london blue, fresh lime and lemon zest for this...just so vibrant and colorful!

This was an instant boost to the drab looking fella!

Step 2- Once the base was dry, I started hand painting few flowers on both sides. I have used acrylics for this with a little texture using gesso. On one side, I have lovely bright pink flowers and on the other side there are bright red poppies. Being, acrylics, it dried very fast.

Step 3- I went about creating some textures on the back ground using Prima Finnabair texture stamps and black archival inks. To brighten up I also had some color splats using liquefied gesso and some white circles too using gesso and a bottle cap! My mixed media is incomplete without some script stamping and I love to see it popping here and there.

Step 4- OnceI was happy with the overall look, I went about inking the edges of the kettle...the top ring and the base with black archival ink. This gave an instant depth to the project. My old fella was unrecognizable and  i felt there was a stranger in front of me!

An unusually bright, vibrant project from me and I thought it was time to spruce up this old fella’s new lease of life! Time to celebrate the New Year and with a little potted plant snuggled inside cozily, it just looked perfect for my kitchen!

I got him back to the kitchen, not to work anymore but to just sit around and watch things and take rest...after all it has served me good all these years. It’s payback time...what say????

Thank you so much for stopping by today and hope you will take time to see what my team mates have in store for you, and do play along.
Linking to the following challenges...
Sisters of craft ch blog - Ag
The ABC Challenge- Y is your choice(AG)
A Bit More Time To Craft - AG

Until my next creative journey,

Happy Crafting and recycling.Cheers.