Good morning or afternoon or evening everyone!!! I can't work out these time zones – I think I am about 14 hours ahead of the States…. which makes it early Sunday morning for me here so I have grabbed my coffee and going to share my latest project!
I love experimenting – who doesn't and if it involves getting my hands dirty and inky or painty then I will have a go….So for my LO this week I chose a favourite photo of my Pop who had taken some time out from working on the farm to have some photo's done – I am not sure if he or Nanna were going somewhere as there is the same photo with my Nanna posing as well! But I love how it reminds me of the old days and of course him 🙂
As I was going to play with some new oxides I kept the LO simple making the Twiddleybitz chipboard the highlight… As you may have gathered by now I love texture so I popped some on the windmill blades and the tree and allowed it to dry. This texture paste I added white sand to so it was quite gritty… Then I could start playing with these oxides… Have any of you ever played with them? I would love to know your feedback, tips and idea's!! I do think I have found another medium I love to play with!!
Once I had painted all the chipboard I glued down the whole 12×12 piece with Helmar's Craft Hobby PVA Glue – an awesome all rounder! As the windlmill had the texture paste on it the whole piece was quite heavy and I needed something to make sure it would stay stuck down! Don't you love my messy mat!!! hehe
Then I added some subtle stencilling with the honeycomb pattern and the barb wire to give it that old feel and added some chicken wire which I rusted around the photo. Basically I painted the chipboard silver first allowed it to dry then painted the Craft and Hobby glue over the top and sprinkled on the rusting powder before giving it a squirt of vinegar to make it rust!
THen voila…. place the pieces add a title and it was done! Can't say my clean up of the kitchen bench is yet though!!!
I do hope you enjoyed my LO today and as I said would love to hear your feedback on the oxides…. leave a message here or on my blog! Happy scrapping till next time.
Toodles (as Erika would say!)
