Designer Gents!

Industrial designer gents no less! 

Hello everyone and here we are at the start of another challenge at A Vintage Journey and this month we are challenging you to go

Industrial!

Use your foil, tape or metallic card stocks with your texture fades/embossing folders to create an industrial creation all your own. Whether its a background or bloom or anything, don't limit your paint colour to black - the industrial technique looks great with all colours of paints!

Black … hmmm …. well you know how it is … you just get carried away on a rush of creativity and before you know it … yes, it's black!

I've got a bit of a thing about long thin hangings at the moment and this one is 8" x 3". I used some heavy duty grey board and gave it a coating of gesso before adding some crackle texture using some super Andy Skinner stencils.

I then set about spraying with Hickory Smoke and Vintage Photo Distress Spray Stains and I think there is also a little bit of Black Soot in there as well (but we won't say too much about that ……. )

I added some background stamping but found it didn't really show up as well as I liked - despite being black … so I used some rub ons instead.

Having recently attended an Andy Skinner workshop I had some fun with the cogs painting them first with DecoArt paints and then adding a rusty look.

Finally these two gents had been in mind all along as the original Industrial designers but I couldn't get them all in! So I opted for these two (I like the moustaches). I stamped them on tissue paper in order to allow them to merge with the crackle texture.

And so there you have it - my industrial designers!

in black …

For some much more colourful projects you must hop on over to the AVJ blog to see the wonderful pieces created by my fellow Creative Guides. Fabulous inspirational pieces in a variety of different styles.

Thank you so much for joining me today and have fun with your challenge pieces!

Jennie x