My Rusty Crown: Iron Transformation

Today I'm Showing you how I altered this "Sad Iron" (Circa 1800's) into something new and beautiful to look at!

From the 17th century, sadirons or sad irons (from Middle English "sad" meaning of "solid", used in modern English through the 1800s) began to be used. They werethick slabs of cast iron, triangular and with a handle, heated in a fire or on a stove. These were also called flat irons.

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This is what my iron started off looking like, I snatched this up at a sale for $5 bucks the scissors are from my stash, and the bottom I will attach is just old flooring I cut up!

So here I took old lace,sisal and moss. I sandwiched it to the bottom with my old flooring using Heavy gel medium!

just a shot of the goodies glued on.

Next is prepping! So I went with Clear Gesso over the whole thing!

I wrapped twine around the base of the handles and spritzed some Tim Holts Distress Oxide (Iced Spruce)

the top of the handle I glued down with gel medium Finnabair Tissue paper. I added Prima resins to the scissors handles. I also took a spool of black thread, Painted it white then un twined some string from it to get that zig zag look. You will see I wrap that leftover thread throughout the whole thing as I work! everything also gets some white gesso lightly over it.

Here I add foliage and flowers. a paper ruler and this Imagine tag from Stamperia wooden shapes

next I take more Oxide spray ( Spiced Marmalade) with a paint brush I paint it on to my desired pieces.

Now White Gesso dry brushed and I added some Prills using Liquid Glass Adhesive! Thats all she wrote! hope you all like it! As always product list will be down below!