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Steampunk Top Hat

Steampunk Top Hat

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/steampunk-top-hat-5 • Posted by Belinda B.

I bought a fancy dress felt top hat cheaply at a store. Covered it with Gesso, distress paint and cogs as well as some metal embellishments.

You will need

Project Budget
Cheap

Time

2 h 00

Difficulty

So-so
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Description

I bought a fancy dress felt top hat cheaply at a store. Covered it with Gesso, distress paint and cogs as well as some metal embellishments.

Instructions

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    Covered it with Gesso as a base, then added cogs cut from foam core and card stock which I also pained with Gesso as well as adding the stencil work using a Tim Holtz stencil.

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    Using Distress paint in black and brown, cover the whole hat, then add a metalic brown and bronze paint to highlight areas.

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    The final touch was adding black as a shadow under each cog. There are also some idea-ology items from Tim Holtz's line.