"Man's Ruin" shrine in a baking tin - CRAFTSTER CRAFT CHALLENGES

Hi all, this is my first challenge, and I had a lot of fun!! This shrine was inspired by the old style “Man’s Ruin” tattoos. They pretty much always have a sexy girl sitting in a martini glass in the middle and other symbols on the outside like a skull, booze bottles, dice, poker cards, stuff like that. I also tried to work in other tattoo theme images throughout the piece. I should have taken pictures when I was making it I made a HUGE mess all over the place making this thing. It took me 2 days to clean up!

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I was super excited when I realized that doll would fit nicely in a martini glass. That’s where the original idea came from – then I read about the challenge with the macaroni and such and it all came together in my head right then. A lot of the little doo dads are just random things I’ve hung onto. I tore my place up trying to find all this stuff!

The doll is in a martini glass full of glass pebbles & silicone glue. In there with her are a winning poker hand of tiny cards, a black cat, and an 8 ball. She has 6 arms and is holding beer, wine and a tiny roulette game. Her pasties are skulls and crossbones.

The outer part of the shrine is a baking pan that I got on sale for a dollar. Inside that, secured with gobs of silicone glue, is a cardboard lid from a copier paper box I painted black. The backdrop in there features a border of gold pasta with gold pipecleaners along the edge, pom poms, fake roses with skulls glued in ‘em, and a bunch of doll hands holding a skull, a devil, a heart, dice (rolling 7), and in the center, a winged hand holds a revolver (I had recently found a baggie of random doll arms at the thrift store by my house) Behind the doll is an oval mirror I found in the target dollar section a couple weeks back. Tucked on either side is play money.

The top of the shrine is made of popsicle sticks painted green, topped with wood rectangles I painted red & stuck tiny playing cards on (those were another target dollar ailse find!) Aslo up there is part of a busted roulette toy I had laying around, Barbie shoes from the aforementioned thrift shop, dice rolling a 7, and a hand in the middle holding a plastic skull charm and an american express card that says “Your Name Here” that I got in an ad they sent me some time ago. I always wanted to use that in something.

I forgot to take a "before" picture, but here's a pic some of the leftover supplies - better late than never, right?