Smeared and Smudged Members Blog-Hop

I found a great online group for swaps and challenges for Alternative, Vintage and Gothic rubber stamping recently and joined up.  Today is one of their regular member's blog-hops and I decided to get involved and join in!  The group is Smeared and Smudged - definitely worth a look!!

If you're following the hop I'll be the last stop, but if you've come to me first then the list of my fellow hoppers is below:

Black Dragon
Susan
Leslierahye
Anna
Titbelsoeur
Erin
Teresa
Shoni
Dominike
Evil Edna
The Nanny
and Me!

The theme for this hop is to alter a found object - it had to be 3D and have some stamping.  Well I love altering things!! (Had you guessed?)  I wanted to do something that little bit different so I decided that I would alter an empty underarm deodorant - definitely different eh!?  I also used 2 pieces of black corrugated plastic that came as packaging and a dense foam sheet as shown below.

So, what was I going to do with the deodorant?  Well I decided it looked a little like a rocket ship (!) so I covered it with silver-grey aluminium tape, then added a rusted bottle cap, the legs which are actually cut using the Tim Holtz Pediments die and then folded in half and painted a rusty colour and a couple of extra bands of tape - also rusted up, and then stood it all on an upturned drainage cap from a small plant pot.

Then I stamped my steampunk adventurer and a sentiment with goggles and coloured using my promarkers.

I constructed an explorer's room by covering the black plastic with some blue paper covered with compasses, and two little pictures hanging from thread.  The floor is the foam sheet which I've inked grey with touches of rusty paint.  Altogether it looks like this:

I'm pretty pleased with it as it all came together at the last minute!  Hope you like it too?

I am also wanting to enter this into the following challenges:

Smeared and Smudged's own Junk Funk Challenge - free choice of junk - here http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/thechallenger/forum/topics/junk-funk-challenge-june-2014 (although you may need to be a member to see this - so - join!!)

SanDee and Amelie's Steampunk Challenges - June - shades of grey, blue and rust - here http://sandee-and-amelie.blogspot.co.at/2014/06/shades-of-grey-blue-and-rust-june.html

Altered Eclectic's altered art challenge blog - June - Anything Goes - here http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/new-month-new-challenge.html

and

Rhedd's Creative Spirit - June altered art - here http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/june-challenge.html


Thanks for reading
Stefanie x