So the leather dying didn’t work out as well as I had hoped, so I got out my acrylic paints and went at it.
See? Not lovely, but for the first time working with leather dye, I think I made out well!
I washed it with some blue, but then it was a little too bright.
Then I washed it with a bit of black, forgetting that I still didn’t have any white to soften it to a dull grey.
So I then washed the entire bit in water, and wiped off most of the black. It left a nice marbled appearance to the leather.
Like an aged River Song journal.
This left me in a good mood about the state of the project.
Then I got busy, so I ended up waiting to sand the altoids tin for a while.
Note to self. Don’t sand indoors. Perhaps wait to do it outside with a slight wind. Breathing in aluminum dust fumes was not my best decision.
By the way, I’m beginning to think that Sharpie products are little bits of miracle.
All summer I’ve been loving the Sharpies with the super fine tips, as I’ve been using them for sketching and stuff.
But my new favorite is this metallic copper one. It adheres rather well to the sanded aluminum, and even looks nice!
Not a whole lot sticks well to this aluminum. I tried to use the gold paint pen I made my Farnsworth with, but it didn’t adhere well. It might have been the pen, or that I was using it over the original altoids paint, but nevertheless.
This looks so much better. But it may need another coat.
Especially after I sanded down the altoids tin. In hindsight, this probably should have been done before the clay “water” was put in, but oh well.
A couple weeks later, meaning this past weekend, I bought some E600, and glued the tin to my leather cover. It took two tries on one of the sides, since the tin was in at an angle, making the leather sides look wonky.
So then I remembered that I still hadn’t painted the inside, so I set to work doing that.
Got it painted with the handy acrylic paints, then I covered it in modge podge to seal.
And here it is:
My swimming pool in the TARDIS journal!
Now off to finish my Belle dress…
