The sketch at Freshly Made Sketches was inspiration for my first card of the day.
I'd pre-ordered the Geared Up Garage bundle: a gloriously masculine set of stamps with matching dies. Ever since I'd seen the gears die-cut, I'd been desperate to give it a faux rusted metal treatment. I first saw this technique about three years ago on a video by Canadian demonstrator, Allison Okimitsu at Nice People Stamp.
It's magic watching the plain card transform into rusted metal. After happily playing with that, I added in some of the co-ordinating Classic Garage DSP for the rectangular panels.
Here you can see just how realistic the faux rusted metal looks.
LOve this! Could you provide an explanation for a link to find out how to do the faux metal? Thank you! My dad is a mechanic and I feel like he would love this look!
ReplyDeleteHi Lisa. The video I watched was this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqCOLsa45PM by Allison Okamitsu. Once you have the technique in mind, you can use any colours you like. I found that if you applied the embossing powder quickly, you don't even need versamark. I think the colours I used in the gears were Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Bermuda Bay and Cajun Craze applied in that order. I started with Crumb Cake card and I layered it so that it was thicker and stood out more from the base.
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