Hey everyone!
So I have returned with the next layout in my 'scrapiniec alphabet challenge'.
We're having some time off, the dental laboratory I work at is always closed from Christmas until New years and my husband Pascal is a school teacher.
So yeah, we get to sleep in alternating, one of us has to go downstairs to take care of Connor (who's almost 3 years old) while the other can catch up on some much needed sleep. (Our little man hardly ever sleeps through the entire night and wakes up around 6.30 every day.)
Thinking about what to do with all my letters, I suddenly got an idea for the 'Z': ZIJSPAN. Which is Dutch for 'sidecart'.
My husband loves to ride motorcycles and didn't want to wait until Connor was old enough to take him along. So, he bought a motorcycle with a sidecart!
A lovely, vintage, blue, German 'AWO' motorcycle from the fifties.
And Connor and he have been going for rides ever since Connor was about a 1,5 years old. Connor enjoys the 'speed' very much, even though it's hardly any faster than a moped, LOL. (They are overtaken by cyclists even...)
And the husband? He loves to share his passion with his little man.
Anyways, gears popped up in my head too for this layout, obviously. So I altered the Z a little by adding some (half) gears. Quite happy with the result so far.
Then I made my own blend to recreate the tire tracks (with a Tim Holtz stencil) by mixing a gray structure paint, black gesso, some 13Arts Magic powder to give it more structure, and cinnamon. (Which in retrospective could have been left out easily, it didn't show. But it smelled great when I dried the tracks with my heatgun, hahaha.)
After application I sprinkled some sand on the tracks.
I stamped some numeric and text stamps (not entirely random) over the page with black ink. When I found out this particular piece of paper wasn't very sturdy (Echo Park collection something something, from my stash, a few years old at least) I adhered it to a piece of plain black cardboard. Then I distressed the edges and inked them with black as well.
Then it was time for the gears, which I wanted to have 'surrounding' my picture. I glued them down and let them dry overnight. (Bedtime anyway, so.)
Next, I gave my gears and the 'Z' a coat of anthracite Inka Gold. (Which was hard with all the teeth and points and holes. Took me forever! Spraying them beforehand would have been easier I think.)
After unsuccessfully trying to mix gel medium with cinnamon (my almost 3-year old boy asked me if it was poop...) I simply applied the gel medium on my gears and shook the cinnamon on top. I let it dry and tapped the excess off. And them brushed some more. And sneezed. (But the effect is worth it!)
After I painted the edges of my Z with a dark blue glimmermist I gave it the same cinnamon treatment as the gears.
To make my gear-wreath more exciting I twirled some iron wire along it in loops and glued down some (non functional) Christmas lights. Added some chain, brushed some silver micro beads/ nail caviar on the gears (blended in gel medium), added a bit of turquoise alcohol ink to emphasise the rust and then added some crackle medium. Once that dried I inked it a little to bring out the cracks more and dull the shine somewhat. Next day I brushed some brown/gold Inka Gold over the micro beads because the silver stood out too much.
Meanwhile I basically gave the Z the same treatment. I adhered it to a piece of currogated cardboard (which I altered with 2 shades of silver/anthracite and a rust colour Inka Gold and... yes... here it comes... cinnamon! ;) )
Made the rest of the word 'Zijspan' on my Dymo labelwriter and added a few word stickers from 7dots 'Nature Walk'. (Altered their color a little and covered them in crackle medium.)
Glued a little licence plate from Prima with the text 'Dreamroad' to the bottom of the page and altered it with alcohol ink and crackle medium.
There you have it, my cinnamon sidecart layout. Hope you like it. Comments are much appreciated.
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I'll leave you with a few more close-ups!
Happy scrapping everyone!
7 comments:
simply love your page and how to do it great job be proud its awesome .
You're too sweet Sharon :) Thank you. This is one I do feel proud of again. (Probably because of the story behind it too: my two men enjoying each other and the ride.♡)
You're too sweet Sharon :) Thank you. This is one I do feel proud of again. (Probably because of the story behind it too: my two men enjoying each other and the ride.♡)
Never heard of the cinnamon. Is that for texture or color or? Great job!
Never heard of the cinnamon. Is that for texture or color or? Great job!
As you can see it provides the color as well as the subtle rust like texture!
As you can see it provides the color as well as the subtle rust like texture!
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