Hi Everyone! This one actually started with a wheel of cheese I made for the Peter Rabbit book box and didn’t use, and for some reason, as soon as I had cheese, wine, and bread, my muse decided to run off to 17th century France, and settled on a Musketeer preparing for a nice charcuterie breakfast before getting dressed for the day.
Better lighting to see the stuff inside, but I hadn’t added the mirror at this point.
I used a yellow LED to light the window/hillside going for a bit of a sunrise effect, and used the dead-space of the spine to do a built-in bookcase, but also to house/hide the switch and battery. Some better photos of the bookshelf contents (including a small nod to ‘Man in the Iron Mask’), food, and the back battery/switch.
Used the GF to engrave/cut the gilded leaf corners, the center of the cover cross, the table, chair, window and bookcase frames, and mirror frame on medium PG draftboard, and the white cover letters and white cross frame out of medium PG white acrylic. The rest is 1/16" chipboard, cardstock, clay, beads, paperclip wire, hot glue, etc. A lot of interesting problem solving, I made the mask by gluing together two layers of paper bag and forming it over the face of one of my son’s action figures, then cut out eye and mouth holes. The boots are a hot glue foot, with a tall bead leg, covered in crumpled paper bag and inked black. The sword is a paper clip wire glued to a thumb tack with the pointy end wrapped in wire for the handle. The mace is a toothpick and a bead. Crocheted the tabard and used the Cricut to cut out the tabard cross. Cardstock hat, feathers, belt, leaves, etc.
Hope y’all enjoyed the trip as much as I enjoyed making it, thank you for stopping and taking a look, and until next creation, Happy Forging!