THE KING & QUEEN OF HEARTS

Coming in just under the wire I have a set of Mardi Gras Masks.

The Grand opening challenge for the Pinque Peacock was to alter a mask.  Here are the rules:

RULES
1.  Your altered mask MUST fit within of one of the following themes (the theme you followed on your mask must be recognizable to the challenge moderators)

•  Valentine's Day/LOVE 
•  Mardi Gras
•  St. Patrick's Day
•  Shabby Chic 
•  Steampunk

2. Your entry must have some sort of Bling element. Lets see some sparkle!


3. The mask must feature your choice, either feathers, ribbon or lace, or some combination of these.

I started with a plain mask.  Here is a gold one.  

 I used the green and purple ones and had already decided what I was going to do - cut them in half and piece them together.  To do that I used black electrical tape.  

For decoration I added gold, green and purple pearls, feathers, black lace and gold trim ribbons. 

Here are the final results:

 I distressed playing cards with Distress Inks, wrinkling them, distressing the edges and adding some stickles.  I printed the drama symbols on glossy paper and fussy cut them.

I added these to the corners!

I hope you have enjoyed my final masks!  Be sure to stop by Pinque Peacock and check out their challenges and fun products!

FOR THE LUCK OF THE IRISH

Pinque Peacock is having their first challenge on their new blog.  It as for creating altered masks.  This was a time consuming but interesting project to work on.  This is my second and I am hoping to sneak in one more before the end of the day.  

Here are the rules:

1.  Your altered mask MUST fit within of one of the following themes (the theme you followed on your mask must be recognizable to the challenge moderators)

•  Valentine's Day/LOVE 
•  Mardi Gras
•  St. Patrick's Day
•  Shabby Chic 
•  Steampunk

2. Your entry must have some sort of Bling element. Lets see some sparkle!

3. The mask must feature your choice, either feathers, ribbon or lace, or some combination of these.

For my entry this time I have chosen a St. Patrick's Day theme.

Here are the details:

This was my mask as I had just started.

 

and here it is complete!

Close up of Left Side:

Close up of Right Side:

I hope you have enjoyed viewing this fun creation.  Come back later to see what I create for Mardi Gras!  Have a great day and if you are on the East Coast/MidWest of the US stay warm!  These bitter cold days are wearing thin on me!!!

WHO IS THAT?

Who is that hiding behind that mask?

Pinque Peacock opened a new challenge blog with this first unusual challenge - create an altered mask.  

1.  Your altered mask MUST fit within of one of the following themes (the theme you followed on your mask must be recognizable to the challenge moderators)

•  Valentine's Day/LOVE 
•  Mardi Gras
•  St. Patrick's Day
•  Shabby Chic 
•  Steampunk

2. Your entry must have some sort of Bling element. Lets see some sparkle!

3. The mask must feature your choice, either feathers, ribbon or lace, or some combination of these.

I decided this might be fun to try and I gathered some masks and a bunch of my odd assortment of trims, and then I put it off for nearly the entire month.  Now that we are down to the wire I finally got to it.  

I was so out of my comfort zone that I never took photos as I was going along but it has lots of feathers on the left, there is a slew of different ribbons and lace hanging down the side and it's rimmed in lace.  For the bling the eyes and edges are rimmed in pearls and there is a vintage button with a sparkly stone in a flower mixed into the feathers.  

Here it is - 

Here are a few close-ups so you can see some of the details a bit better.

I was happy with the end results but the photos really don't do it justice.  It's so hard to capture the details with everything being black but I wanted to keep with the elegance and there just wasn't any color I wanted to add to it that I felt would keep the feel.


Although it is down to the wire, if I finish up my DT assignments I may try and sneak in another mask since I have supplies to make a few more.  

Hope that you have enjoyed this unusual project.  Thanks for stopping by.  Please come back soon!