Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Earlier I mentioned my spot as a guest designer at Inkurable Stampers, here are some images of the samples I created for the challenge this month.

Journey

This arch was a good opportunity to try a new technique – beeswax.  I was really happy with the results and the arch smells so good!

· The arch was hand drawn after looking at a few images online.  It is based on a template by Belinda Schneider but I changed the dimensions a bit.  All images were from Darkroom Door. 

· I started with a white cardstock arch.  The background was made by first stamping the French Script background with Versamark ink & clear embossing.

· The arch was lightly sponged with Distress Wild Honey & Barn Door inks and excess ink wiped from the embossing.  I dripped a bit of water onto parts of the arch and allowed them to dry.

· I stamped the cars from Vintage Automobiles and the words from Prague Vol 1 onto white tissue paper and cut images out roughly.  These were adhered to the arch with gel medium.  The tissue paper allowed me to alter the orientation of the top car.

· The gentleman is from the Photobooth Hats sheet and I used a grey pen to ink the edges so the white cut marks wouldn’t show.  He is also adhered with gel medium. 

· Once everything was dry I melted some beeswax and painted it all over the arch.  Additional heating smoothed the surface a bit.

The next is one I called Destination. 

I came across this sheet of Basic Grey patterned paper at my LSS this week and it became the perfect background.  Once again stamps are Darkroom Door.

· Cut arch from patterned paper and paint with white acrylic paint.  Allow paint to dry for a few minutes and remove parts using a baby wipe.  This will allow some parts of the design to show through more than others.  If you remove too much, just repeat the process until you get the required effect.

· Once dry, paint with Ranger Distress Crackle paint in Rock Candy.  Allow to dry and lightly sponge with Distress Frayed Burlap.  Check out the before & after pic to see the change painting & sponging makes to the paper.

· To highlight a couple of the cars, I used my Copics to go over two of the car images to deepen the colour and then applied a bit of glossy accents to make them pop.

· The border is punched and stamped with the border stamp from Ornate Elements with Distress Chipped Sapphire ink and then affixed to the bottom of the arch.

· The words are from Vintage Automobiles and die cut using a Spellbinders label die.  The diecut was then sponged lightly on the edges and towards the centre with Distress Chipped Sapphire ink, folded slightly and affixed at an angle over the border with foam tape under each side. 

If you aren’t too familiar with the technique of painting over patterned paper – give it a try.  This pic shows you the difference painting can make before & after.