Mr Piggott's Apothecary

Hello there.  Hope this blog finds you well?.  I've been so busy on this project that i think a good break away is on the cards.  I have enjoyed doing this project and I think i have really pushed myself and taken myself out of my comfort zone.  Its another box from That Craft Place (thanks Danny and Lisa) I'm addicted to them.

Here it is 

After i assembled the box and waited for the glue to dry i coated it in two coats of gesso just to give the wood a bit of a 'tooth' for the other components to stick to.  I then added some texture paste to the box using a spatula and dried it with my heat gun.  I also left it for a few hours to cure properly.

I then proceeded to raid my paint stash for a suitable brown colour and i found it in my Deco art selection.  I chose Deco art Americana multi surface satin paint in cocoa brown. I then proceeded to paint it and  let it dry over night.

The next day i started to distress the project by going over the raised areas with Walnut stain distress crayon and rubbing it in. I then ran my heat gun over it to set the crayon.

Then comes the best bit - raiding my stash for appropriate embellishments and other goodies.

I found my Prima Mechanicals that come already rusted and i stuck these down with Finnabair 3D gloss gel (which is fab by the way).  I placed some of the items that i chose just before sticking them down so i found the look i was looking for.

I bought the glass dome off a very good friend of mine and when i received it i immediately knew that this was the project to use it on.  I found some 'medicine bottles' in my stash and started to arrange them underneath the dome and fell in love....... I found some small ephemera bits to put on the bottles as labels and distressed them with archival ink in coffee. I also rubbed the ink over the glass dome to age it

Here are the products i've used in this project

INGREDIANTS

Gesso

Ranger Texture Paste

Decoart Americana Multisurface satin in Cocoa Bean

Distress Stain in Wild Honey

Decoart Dazzling metallics in Emperor Gold

finnabair art basics 3D gloss gel 

Ranger Archival ink in Coffee

Distress crayon in Walnut Stain

Finnabair Rust Effects mechanicals

Prima mechanicals clock face

Spellbinders Media mixage ephemera paper pad 

Thank you for visiting and i hope you liked the project

Take care

Jo

xx