Charlie in Pieces

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

 

Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here with a little altered art, mixed media inspiration today for the Man Cave challenge.  Have you seen all the amazing makes on the blog this month??  Scroll down and check them out.  You still have time to get out your masculine themed stamps and make a little something something and join the challenge.  The more players the bigger the prize!  Here's my little make.  An altered matchbox with the gorgeous Charlie Chaplin from Carmen's Veranda.

I started by stamping Charlie on a 3" square of white woodgrain patterned card.  I coloured around the image with red Promarker.  Well obviously he's not going to fit in that box like that!!  But I have a plan!!!!  I also stamped Charlie on white shrink plastic, fussy cut and shrunk him.  Love it!!!!

I covered the Charlie square with clear adhesive plastic and then cut it into inch squares.  It's an inchie puzzle!!!  I also added some thin magnet to the back of each piece cos I thought it would be fun to have a fridge magnet Charlie puzzle!!

I covered the inside of the matchbox drawer with black paper, the outside with red paper and attached a piece of red ribbon.  I cut a piece of red foam and one piece of black to fit inside the drawer.  I cut the black piece with a star die and put them in the drawer. 

I covered the matchbox cover with handmade textured paper and wrapped it with some sequinned red thread.  I cut a few stars from red mirror card and added my shrunken Charlie.  What a fun treat it will be!

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