Forgotten Things - Our Creative Corner

Hello visitors to Magpieheaven. I don't know what it is, but ever since I was a little girl I've loved anything to do with Pierrot. When I saw that Our Creative Corner were challenging us to create using 'Forgotten Things', I recalled that when I first started crafting seriously back in April I began with decorating small, exploding boxes from Retro Cafe Art Gallery. I still had one left and a project I had never undertaken, still partially formed in my imagination - to create a Pierrot box! My forgotten thing that I should like to enter in this challenge is the exploding box kit I bought for this project!

I gathered together some bits and pieces that I might use. In the end I did not use the little house in the background or the wide black and white diamond ribbon! I painted the two sections that would form the body of my box with Paper Artsy Snowflake Fresco paint. I had some green wire, which I made into a little stick man. I wasn't sure if this would work, but I intended him to become my Pierrot and to sit on the little RCAG chair at the centre of my box.

Here is my lid in the early stages. I painted it with a blend of Mermaid and Sky Frescos, using a Harlequin stencil with Treasure Gold in White Fire and another Crafters' Companion swirls stencil, which I used with South Pacific Fresco. The butterflies are cut from Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutante paper. I used some Coredinations canvas style paper to make a tattered floral from a Tim Holtz die. After decorating my inside layers with the same colour scheme, I added the top layers of decorated paper napkins.

Here is what would become the outside of the box. The little fairy Pierrette is from a Stampington, 'Clearly Embossed' plate called Petite Whimsies by Sandra Evertson. I stamped her onto tissue with black Archival and fixed it with Paper Artsy Satin Glaze. The diamonds are Mermaid Fresco painted through the Crafters' Companion stencil onto Guacamole

.I Crackle glazed the inner layer and stamped with some script in coffee Archival ink.

I had lots of layers of paper napkin left so I mixed these with water and multi-medium and began to layer them over the stick man to create some flesh on his bones.

I then added shrink plastic medallions, die-cut, painted with Mermaid Fresco and then stamped with a Lynn Perrella image from Paper Artsy and glazed with Glossy Accents. The white pom-poms are to suggest the decoration on a pierrot's costume and the black lace was for contrast. I also added some tiny RCAG dice as feet.

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And the box opens to reveal Pierrrot playing with the pair of die that will govern his fate. I wonder what the white dove is whispering in his ear? The butterflies with girls' faces are shrink plastic stamped with black Archival on a 'Lost Coast' stamp.

 Here is a shrink plastic charm from a Spell-binders keyhole die-cut. The medallion just peeping above the butterfly below is a Pierrot and Pierrette image from Paper Artsy.

In the end I decided not to use the little house, as I wanted to emphasise Pierrot's solitude.

 

Perhaps my little man is something of  'a forgotten thing' himself, just like my box: the object and its theme have become one. In the same way I took up my 'forgotten box', I hope that one of the little Pierette's from the lid will come dancing along when we are sleeping and, like the fairy-tales, they will live happily ever after! Do check out what other crafters have been doing with their 'Forgotten Things' at  Our Creative Corner.