Can't believe we're in week 9 of the
Craft Barn Calendar Challenge already - and I'm up to date!! The challenge this week is to use three colours: Teal, Rust and White. I rather like this combination and I have the perfect embossing enamel called aged teal, so that became my start point.
Love rusting and anything that is rusty but this time I decided just to use a rust colour: the lovely rusty hinge distress shade. I felt that something steampunkish would go well with these colours so I used my Oxford Impressions stamps called Steampunk Works.
Here's my latest calendar page which some may find a little unusual so sorry if the eyes aren't quite your cup of tea:
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| Finished piece complete with calendar stub. I added the stamped eyes simply because it seemed right to have them peeking out through the 'glasses'! |
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| The bird was stamped, inked with rusty hinge and cut out. A second bird was stamped and the 'wing' and neck 'label' were cut out. All bird pieces were then double embossed with clear powder. |
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| The background was created by stamping the cogs with versamark then embossing with clear powder. Layers of distress ink and distress stamping were then built up. Some appropriate watch parts were added to parts of the design. The edges of the page were randomly embossed with aged teal enamel. I love the gold glints in this powder and it works well with the rusty hinge. |
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| The 'glasses' were stamped, cut out and embossed with the aged teal enamel. Rust hinge was added to any gaps.The eyes were stamped from a Tim image using coffee archival then double embossed to lend a 'glassy' look. |
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The 'glasses' were linked together with rusty wire then the calendar stub was attached. The top of the stub was finished with tissue tape, edges were inked then some versamark was added through a mask followed by the aged teal embossing enamel.
Hope you like the page and that the eyes don't put you off!! Do let me know what you think. |
