Sunday 24 March 2013

Smeared Inks Throw Down No 2 Faux finish


 Well my blog seems to be like waiting for a bus recently, Nothing all week and then 3 turn up one after the other, So I hope you bear with me over the next couple of days. As always thanks for stopping by and a big welcome to my newest followers. It's great to have you here.
 Now a few weeks ago Smeared Ink started a new challenge on their forum for Design teams, called the DT Throw Down, this is open to any design teams all you need is a maximum of three people to take part in the theme that has been set, after the deadline the forum members take a vote for the best collection of entries.
 Over at Haunted Design House we jumped at joining in and we were lucky enough to have been voted the winners of the first challenge, as well as bragging rights we got to pick the theme for the next challenge.
 We chose Faux Finishes. If you follow the link to Haunted Design House you will see what the other two members of team HDH have created and of course we would love for you to stop by Smeared inks forum and have a look around and join in the voting, They are a great bunch of crafters and there is always something going on.

If you have stopped by before you may have noticed that I like to use faux finishes quite a lot. For this challenge I made a steam punk inspired book cover from one of the new range of Neil Walkers  Tando Creative book kits.
the top section of shaped chip board was thin enough to go through the diamond plate embossing folder from Tim Holtz and was given an acrylic paint technique I learnt from Andy Skinners Time Worn online course, the second layer of card is to thick so some craft card was cut to shape and embossed with the sheet metal folder from Tim Holtz and was given a Copper Verdigris paint technique from the Time worn course.I added the Tim Holtz key hole and book plate, and again gave them a a tarnished brass faux finish. I used one of Tims tickets and some crackle accents to finish it off.


All the stamps are from De Stempel Winkel if you have not heard of them go check them out, they are a firm based in the Netherlands and have hundreds of sets with pretty much every style you can imagine, stream punk, botanical, oriental, art deco, you name it they probably have it. A lot of the stamps can be bought individually as well as in a set, Jetske presses a lot of the designs herself, she also sells the inks and paper crafting essentials.The plates I have used are Mannen 1 and Nuts and Bolts.
 The Stamps were stamped with archival ink in black, to add the colour and distress I dabbed some blue and brown distress ink pads onto my craft mat and spritz with water, I then swiped my card through and ironed dry/flat again, I repeted this to get the colour intensity I liked, the very dark brown splodge is from the walnut stain re inker. Some eyelets were added to protect the covers over time and the O rings were also given the same tarnished brass finish.

The inside covers and back cover were covered with some design paper that fit the theme and have had a little distress inking around the edges. I have not gone mad here as I intend to add pockets etc in time and as the pages get added.
Ill be using it to collect pages, tags etc but more of that another time.

Thank you for sticking with my rather wordy post.
Hopefully we will see you over at the smeared Ink forum and remember you can see the rest of the HDH entries here.


Over at Sugar creek Hollow they are having an Altered State challenge.

Crafty emblies are having an anything goes theme this month.

The new challenge blog Left Of Centre are starting their 2nd challenge if you are a traditional crafter you can follow their theme or if you are a little left of centre it's anything goes ;)

27 comments:

  1. Looks totally and brilliantly awesome! Love it very much. The colors are gorgeous and the you did a great job on the faux rust, looks quite like the real thing :-D Suzanne

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  2. Stunning Mark. I love those colours, the bright blue against the rusty metal. Wonderful textural effect too. Px

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  3. Love this totally masculine take, Mark. You are a master at faux finishes and I'd have to touch the surfaces to determine thay aren't real. FABULOUS work and what cool stamps! xxD

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  4. Just absolutely amazing. You are a diva at the faux finish. :P

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  5. So cool! I love the finishes and the details- another home run!

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    1. and thanks for joining us at Left of Center!

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  6. a brilliant make , love the finishes and technques you used, a great piace trace x hugs x

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  7. Well Mark what else can i say that hasnt already been said?
    Amazing book covers...wonderful faux techniques... but to be honest i expected nothing less!
    gORGEOUS.
    love BDx

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  8. ...oh Mark that stunning blue against the faux rust just grabs your eye and draws you in, wonderful textures, a real feely piece, and love the crackle behind the plate...cool stuff...Melxx :)

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  9. Stunning. Love the colours and layers (:o)

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  10. Beautifully cohesive project. Love the textures and the faux finishes. You are the Master of the Faux Finish!!

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  11. What a totally fantastic make, Mark! Love every single faux finish on there, and they all come together beautifully to make the whole thing look amazing... right up there with my absolute favourites of yours - a big old WOW from me!
    Alison x

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  12. Mark, this is just fabulous, I love the shape that Neil has created with the base but you have done wonders with it and really brought to life big style! Love the verdigris part and the way it makes the rest of the cover pop. A totally brilliant make. Anne x

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  13. Great project Mark, beautifully tactile finishes as ever. It's great to see how you've used the book kit.

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  14. Awesome Mark, I love how you have used the different techniques together. Thank you for playing along with us at Left of Center x

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  15. I love this it's awesome. Thanks for joining us over at Crafty - Emblies Seema CEDT member.

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  16. Fabulous work - and alot of time spent I am sure. Thank you for sharing with us over at Crafty-Emblies this month. Good news is Crafty-Emblies is now an Anything goes challenge blog which encompasses all paper craft and altered art. Hope to see you join us in future challenges
    Elaine aka Ellapu CEDT

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  17. This is really amazing, I just love it, so unique! Thanks for joining in the Crafty Emblies Challenge this month! hugs, Kim Crafty Emblies DT Member

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  18. Very cool love the overall design and your work is wonderful...awesome..so happy to see your work at sch this week...lizzi

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  19. I can't keep up with you at the moment - must be all those high octane drinks you're on!! Just totally love this because it has so many of my favourite AS techniques - so surprise there then!
    Off to look at your next post.
    Juliax

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  20. Wonderful project with lots of texture
    Tracy (Crafty Emblies DT)

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  21. This just blows me away Mark.... it is stunning. I love the colours and the faux finishes are just orgasmic ! You totally rocked this one :-)
    IKE xxxxx

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  22. Gorgeous! I love how the colours work together. Absolutely beautiful!

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  23. Your faux finishes are always so fabulous and this book proves my point! The rust and verdigris appears so natural. I love the papers you used on the pages too!

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  24. This is incredible Mark! Loving all of the textures and colors you have going on here!

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  25. I swear I commented on this somewhere. You have created a brilliant piece, Mark. I love the vast amount of faux finishes you've used and they all blend together so well for a fine, vintage look. Between the shapes, colours, papers and embellishments...each with their own faux finish, your piece is perfection!

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  26. This is just awesome, what a brilliant creation.

    Thank you so much for coming over and joining in with out 9th Challenge over at Crafty-Emblies.

    Great Big Huge Hugs

    Becca xxx (Crafty-Emblies DT Member)

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