Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Doing the ironing


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!!

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14 comments:

  1. Beverly Ash Gilbert18 March 2009 at 17:18

    Ooooo! I love it - what gorgeous color!

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  2. Genie18 March 2009 at 17:33

    Great work

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  3. Pattie18 March 2009 at 17:57

    I like it tooo !beautiful!! just tried my fantasy fibres today for the first time,havent done anything as stunning as this though lol xx

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  4. Zeborah Loray18 March 2009 at 18:19

    Uh oh- you are in trouble now.
    I must warn you that this is VERY addictive. LOL

    Love your pear! Trish may try to steal it. hehehehe
    Love,
    Zeb

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  5. Unknown18 March 2009 at 18:21

    Stunning.. great job Adrienne!

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  6. Rachel18 March 2009 at 20:00

    This look s fantastic Adrienne! I really, really must have a play with this technique!

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  7. Carol18 March 2009 at 22:23

    Absolutely delicious!!!

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  8. charlie18 March 2009 at 23:11

    hehe... that's way awesome :)

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  9. Brenda19 March 2009 at 15:25

    I am just loving this pear!! It is gorgeous!

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  10. Trizzy19 March 2009 at 20:54

    I am so going to get some fake fruit to iron !! LOL !!!

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  11. Sally21 March 2009 at 05:08

    You created a beautiful pear. Almost as good as Ma Nature.

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  12. Anonymous21 March 2009 at 11:49

    Oh my. I am totally blown away! I just kinda stumbled on this and all I can sa is WOW! Great job!

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  13. Fiona21 March 2009 at 19:48

    Ooooo great pear. The only use you should put an iron to lol. I love the can too. Thanks for all your inspiring work.

    Fiona

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  14. Shoshi26 July 2011 at 22:13

    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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