A Rustic Salvage Christmas Window
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A handful of vintage school room rulers have become a wooden snowflake. A child's bedside alarm clock gets a complete Christmas makeover complete with a vintage Santa transfer and cinnamon rust technique.
The Spiderman clock was rescued from a neighbour's curb. I was looking for a clock to convert to a picture frame but this plastic clock is molded plastic and it was too difficult to dismantle.
I gessoed the entire clock, topped the body of the clock with a crackle paint finish, applied a vintage Santa transfer and then monkeyed around with cinnamon (and allspice for colour variation) rusting technique.
The cinnamon technique worked, and it was interesting to play with. If I were to do it again, though, I would probably have tried to dip the bells and clanger in my usual bleach/vinegar rust dip to create real rust.
Added a sawblade snowflake
I didn't take pictures from the start. It was a rusty old saw blade I picked up from the garbage pile of a construction site. I gessoed it and covered it with cheesecloth but the rust leaked through. So I covered it in poly filla (what I had on hand).
While the polyfilla was still moist I sprinkled it with Epson salts and added a few sparkly buttons
I didn't capture it in the photos, but the Epsom salts glitter beautifully in the light.
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what you did with the clock is ingenious
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I think it's christmas art.
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