Distress Ink Storage Tower

While on my way to an appointment a week or so ago, I was passing by my local Salvation Army resale shop. I visit this stores a few times a year looking for things I can alter, but it had been a long time since I had been there. For some reason while traveling down Euclid Ave. something told me I had to stop in quick, I had 5 minutes before my appointment and of course had to run in. This is what I found: An old shelf on a lazy susan type base! I instantly knew what I was going to do with it, and with the price being 95cents my day was made.

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It took me forever to figure out how to divide it off into sections. First I did it out of heavy chipboard but wasn't happy with it. Finally I found some scraps of OSB board that my husband had laying around and divided it off. It didn't look the greatest but it was

sturdy and I knew I could cover it up with something. Next I cut shelves out of heavy weight chipboard and small 1inch structure strips to hold the shelves up. My hand was killing me cutting all that chipboard with a knife. Next I took Vintage Photo stain and stained all the pieces and glued them all in.

I then took some TH grunge board and cut strips and inked them with vintage photo distress ink. I used them to cover up the yucky finish of the OSB. Next I used a combination of Graphic 45 paper and Tim Holtz paper and covered up the wood. I wanted a knob on the top to turn the unit, what I had in mind was an old glass door knob, but couldn't bring myself to pay the price. Then I found this glass ornament holder at my local antique store and thought it might look kind of neat. I got it home and it was too bright, so I took some alcohal inks and grunged it up.

I then took Modge Podge, matte finish and went over all the paper to give it a protective coating. I added a TH clock and spinner, a metal closure, a couple of metal pieces I had in my stash, some scrabble tiles to spell ink, a decorative key and a Graphic 45 clothes pin and called it done.

Next I printed out all the colors of inks I had on the computer, added a color sample of each to make a label.  I love how this turned out, it holds 40 ink pads and I have 30, so I have room to grow my collection. I think I will enter this into: http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-what-are-you-known-for.html I'm also entering this into the http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.com/2013/01/spruce-it-up.html the challenge is to Spruce It Up, I think I took this old worn out item and gave it a new life.

I'm not really know for anything but I do like my distress inks on everything and like organizing my supplies.

  What do you think? I love your comments. Shari

Can you tell I can't figure out how to put the photos side by side?

The start of a New Year!

I decided to start the New Year off right and get my mojo going. For the first time I'm going to participate in Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2013. I made my first tag for January last night and it felt good to get back to crafting.
I pretty much followed Tim's tag for the most part, but I didn't have the stamp he used, on one tag I just typed the saying on the computer and on the other I used a different TH stamp. I didn't have the distress stain so I used Ranger paint dabbers instead. I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.
Check out Tim's blog for step by step directions on how to do your own tag. http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-january/ 

 

I hope to make the time to do a little more crafting this year so I will post more ( I hope!) Happy New Year, Shari