Monday 15 February 2016

Cogs, Scribbles & Splats

Happy Valentine's Day!

Teenage son comes into my room to inform me that he will be heading out to meet some friends. "Who is she?" I enquired as son's face turns various shades of red, "Who says there's a girl, Mum?" so I told him his face told me all I needed to know - apart from her name but my guess as to that was, eventually, correct. I gave him the little box of heart shaped chocolates that came with the M&S "Dine in for Two" Valentine's selection his Dad & I plan to have tonight. Not to worry, there's a rather yummy pud (looks like a bar of gold bullion)  I picked up that may make up for  losing out on the chocolates.

The weather has been fickle again this time it can't make up it's mind if it wants to rain, snow or sleet but as long as it doesn't get too much colder I'll be fine. As it is this cold snap is playing havoc with my TMJ (painful jaw joint) as it sets the pain off. It doesn't help that the new Doc carrying out my last injection would appear not to have hit the right part of the muscle and I am experiencing the problems I normally get as the effects of it wear off around 12 weeks down the line only it's only been 3 weeks and my next one isn't due until the end of May. I can't have another injection so that leaves me muscle relaxants which are non selective and have been leaving me a little spaced out!


Time for this week's Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.




As it's Valentine's Day I used "love" for the sentiment but I didn't intend this as an actual Valentine's card.


Cogs




I decided to try a masculine card as I had recently bought a couple of "industrial" type embossing folders one with cogs the other with a tread plate design.  It was kind of crying out to be made using metallic cards so out came the copper, silver and gold cardstock and my Grand Calibur.












Craft Essentials Creative Embossing Folder was used to emboss the cog design on the copper & silver card while the individual cogs were cut from gold card using X-Cut Cogs Chronology dies. Crafter's Companion "Gun Metal" folder was used as a back ground. The card stock with the embossed cogs was lightly sanded and then lightly inked to give a distressed look.





What I used

Cardstock
PayPer box

Dies & Embossing
X-Cut - Cogs Chronology
Lawn Fawn - Scripty Love
Crafter's Companion - "Gun Metal"

Inks
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Peeled Paint
Memento - Black


Scribbles & Splats

This is another card I've been playing with using some Tim Holtz Dies. I love the ornate grille design, in fact it was the reason I wanted the set. I decided to team it up with the Scribbles and Splats.



The card stock base is a 300gsm white linen and for each cut out in the white cardstock there is a shadow piece in metallic copper placed behind it. I used a leather effect paper in Navy blue as a contrast.









What I Used

Cardstock
Hobbycraft - DL White Linen Card Blank
PayPer Box - Navy & Copper Metallic

Dies
Tim Holtz - Scribbles & Splat
Tim Holtz - Mixed Media
Lawn Fawn - Scripty Love






2 comments:

  1. That's a very cool take on our sketch! I love the texture and the whole industrial theme! Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches!

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  2. Oh what a fabulous feel your card has to it! So many wonderful textures and elements. Thanks for joining us at FMS this week!

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