Celebrate - Ankarika Craft

 

Hi there!

A male project is a challanging experience! I haven't yet had a situation where I immediately know what I'm going to come up with when such an order comes in. I have a trick for this, which so far has worked out great. I ask my lovely customers about the likes and hobbies of the gentleman receiving the card. Someone would say I'm complicating things for myself, but for me it really is making it easier. It takes me a while to figure out how to use the information I've gathered, but then the work just rolls on by itself. So, as you can guess, this time it was a gentleman with a love of motorbikes. Come on, I'll tell you more!

As a base I used the papers from the "Breeze of Dreams" collection from Margaret Paper Design. I cut out small elements from the cover of the collection: a woman with suitcases, kittens on chains and a motorbike. I glued these small elements with cardboard underneath for a 3D effect. The edges of the base are stitched on the machine with a rather chaotic stitch, and are ragged and distressed.

I was asked to put a speed meter with an arrow pointing at 40, and I managed to incorporate that into the gears and the other elements. I think it came out quite nicely.

All the chipboards apart from the motor is treated with black gesso and then finished with silver wax in varying intensity. The motorbike, on the other hand, I darkened the edges with brown ink and also finished with silver wax. All the elements are layered, additionally glued from underneath and overlapping each other, creating an extremely precise 3D composition. Can you see this cool spider! 

I'm very curious to know how you like the work made almost entirely from cardboard shapes. I know one thing: I probably wouldn't be able to do the project anymore without these wonderful additions from Dusty Attic!

Dusty Attic's products:

Industrial Border #1 DA1949

Spiders #2  DA0114

Motorbike DA0126

Screw Heads DA2879

Gear Edge Border DA2866

Gears #1 by Nuneka DA2734

Mini Moustaches DA1220

Mini Card Sentiments DA3297

Wordplay #1 Black DA1785

Thanks and see you soon!

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Journey - Michelle Van Oudsthoorn

 Hi there!

So excited to be able to play with the new industrial chippies that Dusty Attic have released. There are so many lovely pieces, I didn't know which one to pick first. I eventually did settle on the Marine Mechanical Large Seahorse (DA3359) And then there were several Industrial clusters to choose from!  

I went with creating a canvas. This was covered with a Stamperia rice paper, and then I added some crackle paste, once dry and crackled, I brushed over the cracks with a teal acrylic paint so that the paint would seep into the cracks. I then stamped over the canvas with an archival ink. 

All the chipboard pieces were covered with white gesso before adding paints and stains.

I first added the industrial clusters under the seahorse - these were Industrial Cluster #9 (DA3381), Industrial Cluster #3 (DA3375) and Broken Bits #12 (DA3370). Industrial Cluster #1 (DA3373) is placed at the top left corner. Using mini cogs DA3363, I added dimension to the industrial clusters and the Seahorse, by adding additional cogs. I have also used some mini screw heads (DA2879).

The title is from an older range - Blueprint wordpack (DA2225), still one of my favourite and perfect with the new industrial release.

I have used a mixture of Prima Alchemy Metallique paints and Tim Holtz Stains to colour my chipboard.

These are the products I have used:

Thank you for popping over to visit the blog today.

Take care,

Michelle