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Captains of industry

For some reason the blog wasn't allowing me to write after putting pictures in, so I have had to do two posts, one for decluttering, one for crafting.

I started off by painting a canvas with black gesso, then die cutting some gears from the gearz bigz die, and glueing them onto the side of the canvas. I used texture paste on the gears, then painted them black, before dry brushing the whole piece with silver distress paint. I added extra gears that were painted silver with some distress embossing powder added, attached by foam pads to give dimension. I then cut out a piece of Tim Holtz french industrial paper, before tearing the edge nearest the gears. I used sprays to colour it as well as white stain to lighten it a little, and inked the edges before glueing it onto the canvas. When it was dry, I picked a found relatives picture and used the image transfer technique to transfer it onto the canvas. One tip here is to use water to dampen the back by dipping your finger in the water and rubbing the paper in circles to get rid of it. Seems to do the least damage to the piece. I inked the edges, then added the word industriale, using grunge board letters and the same texture paste and dry brush technique i used on the gears. Before i attached the letters I used a diamond stencil with ink, a circle stencil with transparent matte texture paste (it seems to absorb the inks below which is quite cool) and a ruler stencil with normal texture paste, which i then inked. Finally I cut out a few ephemera, and added some flowers and a keyhole, clock and clock key.








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