Altered John Wayne Whiskey Bottle

I was recently looking for a unique was to display some original art of John Wayne I had created. After our New Years Eve gathering I was looking at a plastic 5th of whiskey and thought... Hey, I can make a John Wayne label for the whiskey bottle! Well that morphed into the final project.
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I printed out a high resolution laser image of my painting and decoupaged it to the whiskey bottle ( no whiskey was harmed or lost during the making of this craft).
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Using some washi tape I picked up one day at Office Depot (of all places), I covered up the traces of the whiskey label around the neck of the bottle.
A few more embellishments here and there and I am done.... but it looks so blah!
I know, I need a badge!

Sticking to the True Grit theme, I needed a Marshal's badge. Of course the first thing I thought of was to buy a toy badge and make a mold. Easy enough, right? Except I couldn't find a Marshal's badge anywhere (for a reasonable price). Ok, so I only went to the dollar store, but that is beside the point!
So I decided to buy some kids plastic badges to cast.

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Then I noticed the blister pack, which many of us (I am sure) have used in the past. The blister pack was a perfect mold! No need to remake a mold when I have a free one right here! So I used the blister pack mold. I could probably use it only a couple of time before it would fall apart, but I only needed one!
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So what molds will you find in blister packs?


I used the Sheriff mold and Amazing Casting Resin with a little black dye to get a gray. I wish I knew this would come out so cool or I would have used some of the gun metal powder with it.

Rooster Cogburn in True Grit was a Marshal not a Sheriff, so whats a girl to do?
Well, using an old brush I painted resin over the debossed letters in SHERIFF until it was almost flat. Then I hand-painted MARSHAL over it. I also added DEPUTY and U.S. to the badge to make it at least correct terminology. It doesn't look exactly the same but at least it doesn't say SHERIFF!
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Added some copper and silver rub-n-buff  accents and it was ready to embellish my piece.
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Opps, I dropped it and broke the corner of the badge taking this picture. 
But you can see it the corner is clearly there in my display at CHA. 
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Til next time!

Tanya



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