Junk in your trunk

Hello everyone and a very happy March to you all!!!
Here in the northern hemisphere this is the month Spring is meant to start, - well I for one can't wait!

It being the first of the month, there are new challenges everywhere. This is my second project for today, with a third one appearing still later in the day, - pfew.



At Our Creative Corner, the lovely Candice has chosen the theme Junk in your Trunk, and this is what she had to say:Create something out of any kind of junk and re-fashion it either into something useful, functional or beautiful for the JUNK IN YOUR TRUNK challenge this month.
Candice is leaving the challenge open to your interpretation of what constitutes “Junk”
It may mean a set of hideously patterned china that you want to smash up and a make a mosaic...
It may mean reams of patterned paper you have lying around that you turn into a collage masterpiece...
It may mean doing something with skeins of wool that you intended to make a a sweater with...
It may mean doing something with rusty keys,nuts and bolts and random pieces of wire that you pick up off the street...

Well, there you go, plenty of scope to be creative. As you can see, I decided to create a container to hold all of my brushes. It started life as a humble yoghurt pot:

I began by giving it a good coat of gesso and then started to play with a variety of acrylic paints and texture and crackle mediums.

I just spread them on with the help of s palette knife and a brush and had great fun messing about.

Here are some other views:

I used mostly Decoart Media Line products, spreading the crackle paste on in different thicknesses, to get different sized crackles and textures.

Next I cut a doily with a Cheery Lynne die, using packaging from a 7 Dots Studio stamp set, (another bit of recycling lol). I loved the colours and textures on the packaging and they fitted my colour scheme perfectly.

Finally a few flowers, a stamp from the Tim Holtz Mercantile set and a couple of die cuts, finished it all off.

 

As you can hopefully see, I added some crackle to the die cuts too and sprayed the flowers in similar colours.

Hope you like my paint brush holder; because of its shape it is pretty practical, as it does not take up too much space, yet holds a lot of brushes.

Do make sure to go over to the Our Creative Corner Blog to see the amazing projects my team mates have created, you will not be disappointed! And of course if you decide to play along, we will all love that!!!

Of course like always there is a prize to be won too! This month our sponsor is

Meanwhile, thanks so much for dropping in here right now, and like I said, it's a busy day today, for I will be sharing yet another project later today.