Scrapmatts: ST1024

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Hot off the Factory Press...A rusty old book!!!!

Hi There

Jodie with you today sharing my DT project for the month.

This item is Hot off the Factory Press and soon to be released by Scrapmatts.

I had the great pleasure of being on the Scrapmatts stall at the Craft show in Perth with Andrew, Paul, Rikki and Rhonda. We had a fabulous time and I was given this little treasure to play with.

This gorgeous chipboard book.

Inspired by the new paper range from Kaisercraft Factory 42, I decided that I would like to grunge mine up and make it industrial looking using lots of cog chipboard and some metal embellishments.

Once I had covered the book with the Factory 42 papers, I wanted to add some texture, so I used the gears stencil with some ranger texture paste transparent gloss.

ST1024 Gears Stencil

For the spine of the book, I used the cog boarder. Now this was tricky, as I wanted it to bend with the spine, so I used a little water to help mould it to the spine and then stuck it with some super glue.

CB2012 Cog Boarder

To cover the book I used a combination of chipboard, collectables and metal embellishments. There really is no process to this for me, I just place it down and stick. I find that when I do it like this, with no plan, it gives the best results.

CB1072 Gears

CB1073 Gears

CB6042 Arch Window Frames

CB5170 Net

CB6109 Lamps

Back Cover

This is the finished project. Front, Back and Inside of the Book. I am not sure what I am going to use it for yet, so I just covered the inside with the papers.

To colour the chipboard and embellishments, I have used the patina rust paste collection from Finnabair, along with the rust paste in brown, gold and red. I just love the rusty grunge look they achieve.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my latest project and I hope that it inspires you to find your grunge.

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Until next time

Dream * Create * Inspire

xxx

Monday, April 17, 2017

Good Times Packaging Tags

OMG.....It's already April, where do these months go?

HAPPY EASTER TO YOU ALL

This month I was inspired by my friend Rosalie to use up my packaging tags. I recently attending a Scrap Retreat and she was sitting next to me and was using her packaging to create some amazing mixed media art.

I was so impressed and thought "I have some of those packaging pieces at home" just sitting in a draw, as I thought to myself "I'll use those one day".

So this month I have created two packaging tags to share with you.

This is the first tag.

The base is a Prima Marketing package. It had a collage of words on it.

To create the background I have covered it with clear gesso and used modelling paste with the Lattice and Gears Stencils.

For the colours I used Kaisercraft Mists in Antique Gold, Coffee and Turquoise.

I then embellished the tag with Scrapmatts charms, Finnabair Mechanicals and Metal embellishments.

I finished the tag by applying a chipboard word and using Finnabair's Rust Paste.

The embellishment at the top of the wings is an old watch face.

Add a few micro beads for bling and I was very happy with the end result.

List of products used can be found at Scrapmatts

ST1024 Stencil Gears

ST5046 Lattice Stencil

CH059 Believe Charms

CH036 Assorted Charms

CB1241 Scrap Words 27

This is the second tag I have created using Tim Holtz packaging.

This tag features Scrapmatts charms, chipboard and stencils.

To create the background I have used modelling paste with the Diamond stencil and then layered the chipboard in the pattern I liked and then added the Finnabair Metal Embellishment with the wing charm from Scrapmatts.

I then used Kaisercraft mists, rust paste and micro beads to add colour and texture.

Here I have added some metal charms and mechanicals.

Word Chipboard added here with Believe charm.

To give the effect of wings from the back of the metal embellishment I have used the skeleton leaves.

To finish the tag off I used some Kaisercraft Charcoal ink and dripped along the sides and finished with white gesso flicks and micro beads and powder.