Rustic Elements

Preped some chipboard die cuts using gesso, texture sand paste and matte medium.

Then I chose some pieces to add to my base of foam board, masking tape, cotton scrim and gesso. 

I painted some of the pieces with paynes grey.

Sprayed the foam board with turquoise shimmer media mister and added transparent yellow iron oxide media paint.

And this is the finished piece which eventually took on a blue / green tone.

A few close ups, bottom left hand corner.

The silver washers painted in gesso, paynes grey and quinacridone gold.

The lock and key made to look like rust.

And the top left corner, more rust effects and the cotton scrim through the foam board.

Cotton scrim under the frameworks die painted in ultramarine media paint.

Then I decided to add the PA words as I felt it needed a little something else at the top. When I looked back at my original layout, I forgot the heart at the top!

All products ie paints, misters and mediums are from the DecoArt media range.

What's Your Poison?

When at AftH last week I picked up some patterned papers including this skull one.  Yes Kate, it is pink, pink and a washed out black.  So I decided to cover another box with it.  

I've used a couple of clear gem stones for the eyes of the skull, which I then made into the drawer handle. (This is my bit of bling for ABAC challenge whose theme this week is shiny, sparkly, blingy.)

I added a skull to the top of the box but didn't want to do too much else to it as I felt it would hide the graphics on the papers.

The mini bottles (this is my altered bottle for this weeks Out of a Hat Creations challenge) are filled with micro beads (more bling) and small normal beads.  The silver chain is coloured with pitch black alcohol inks but I think most of it ended up back on my fingers whilst I was trying to add the jump rings to the chain, let's just say it was dead fiddly!!!

I used foam board to build up the inside of the drawer and cover it with papers.  The words are computer generated in chiller font.

Spot the deliberate mistake, the paper on the drawer is upside down!!  I obviously haven't got the hang of which way up to put the paper on the die yet!!

And finally this is the whole thing put together with the drawer open!!

Simon Says Stamp challenge blog have an anything goes theme this week, so I'm going to slot this in their challenge too.