Have you ever ironed a pear??? I have!
I was inspired by Zeborah's fantasy gourd and 'dragon eggs', so decided to try my hand at 3-D fantasy film.
Using a combination of a fake pear, pva glue, fantasy film, an iron and a heat gun, I transformed this life sized fake pear into a shimmery other-worldly fruit! It took a little patience, but I got there in the end.
I did try stamping & embossing the pear, but I foolishly chose an interference embossing powder which didn't show (and I thought it was going to show in a deep iridescent green!!!). All this process did was take a lot of the shine away, and I didn't like the pear quite as much. So I ironed on some angelina fibres:
It's still not quite as pretty as it was with just the fantasy film, and you can't really see the texture or colours very well in the photograph, but I rather like it!!
Ooooo! I love it - what gorgeous color!
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ReplyDeleteI like it tooo !beautiful!! just tried my fantasy fibres today for the first time,havent done anything as stunning as this though lol xx
ReplyDeleteUh oh- you are in trouble now.
ReplyDeleteI must warn you that this is VERY addictive. LOL
Love your pear! Trish may try to steal it. hehehehe
Love,
Zeb
Stunning.. great job Adrienne!
ReplyDeleteThis look s fantastic Adrienne! I really, really must have a play with this technique!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely delicious!!!
ReplyDeletehehe... that's way awesome :)
ReplyDeleteI am just loving this pear!! It is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI am so going to get some fake fruit to iron !! LOL !!!
ReplyDeleteYou created a beautiful pear. Almost as good as Ma Nature.
ReplyDeleteOh my. I am totally blown away! I just kinda stumbled on this and all I can sa is WOW! Great job!
ReplyDeleteOoooo great pear. The only use you should put an iron to lol. I love the can too. Thanks for all your inspiring work.
ReplyDeleteFiona
This is totally gorgeous. What are the fake fruits made of? I don't suppose you can use polystyrene shapes because of the heat. I went over to Zeborah's blog to see if there was a technique but there wasn't. I know this blog post was a while back (only just discovered you lol!) but would you be able to do a tutorial on this? The results are so stunning!
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