Hi everyone, September is the month that I would like to inspire you
to use Kraft/Natural elements in your creations. I love going to second
hand shops and my bestie and I always make sure we pop into our
favourite shop every time we head to Melbourne and we get very excited in
obtaining new supplies of ephemera to add to our projects.
One
of my other loves is geocaching... treasure hunting... and it takes me
all over Australia. I love taking photos of old ruins and wagons which
are perfect for using in my layouts and the old stamps I got from our
favourite shop were perfect to add to my layout.
I
used rust paints to layer over the chipboard cogs, matching the rust on
the wagon wheels in the photo and mixed the paint with gesso to tie the
background into the layers of the layout. A huge thankyou to my
special friend Deena for giving me some old negatives; this negative
strip is of old quilts....perfect..I thought for my background layers. I
added hessian for texture and to provide depth to the page. The
chipboard title was coated in yellow oxide rust paint to give texture
and an earthy colour with the chevron being grey white to connect with
the torn sections of the paper layers and old weathered wood of the
wagon.
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| 9 Cogs on board small 6x5cm IDT0004 |
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| Loolabelles Chevrons 1 IDDL0020 |
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| IDW0069 My fav travel photos |
My
second share today is a hand cut Kraft tag; I have used new australian
designed 13arts papers by Fiona Paltridge in my layers to add to the
rustic historic feel I was aiming for.
This
was a quick project using gesso and a swipe of rust paint and blue
distress ink over a stencil for the background. A stack of papers, black
cotton and tickets cut from Fiona's papers make up the next layer with
the addition of the painted number chipboard, brass cogs and hessian to
build up the layers up. To finish the tag I added splats of white paint
and a beautiful brass clock and key embellishment.
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| IDN0001 Numbers 38 per page |
My
last share with you all today is a page I've been waiting to do for a
while, I love this photo and have been waiting for the right challenge
to use it.
This
striking page was created by applying some sections of washi tape then
using a roller to apply a section of red acrylic paint onto the page,
the same paint was used over an alphabet stencil. Sections of white dots
were added with a stencil and white acrylic and some writing with a mix
of black paint and gel medium in a fine nosed applicator bottle was
added for contrast. The photo was added over the top of natural coconut
fibre with a wooden painted button embellishment. The chipboard title
was painted in black acrylic paint to tie the whole page together.
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| Love this IDP0199 |
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| IDW0094 #instagram etc. (used the 's' from selfie) |
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| You inspire me IDP0077 |
Hope
I was able to inspire you to try this challenge and explore new ideas.
Catchup with you soon and look forward to seeing all of your amazing
creations.
