When I was preparing this a couple of months ago - working in advance for the challenges - I should have taken notice of the date and seen it was for Friday the 13th!!!
First of all I wanted to do something with a couple of my cat food boxes (again) and decided to make a holder for my finished cards so I always had a birthday card, get well card etc ready. No vision, you understand, of what the finished product would be like or what I would use on it for colour/decoration etc. It started life just painted with old Acrylic dried up dabbers that had been mixed and mixed with water to get to some consistency that could be painted and then stencilled. Didn't like!
Tissue paper from shoe box? Didn't look right. Torn up dictionary/street map pages. A bit of Distress Ink - ugh! Like the inside (why did I not leave the outside as was?). Inka Gold - Orange? Green? Hematite? More Orange which looks a bit like Gold? Ah well, can cover most of it up with ...
Die cuts.
Steampunk bit centre top is handle
Steampunky die cuts. Bits of card, book pages, bits of mountboard (good job I hoard scraps) - here it is - my box for storing my cards in. Not really what I would have envisaged but it is grungy and it sort of is me. I'm happy. Now I need some more cards to store in it!
My advice on this challenge? Wait until tomorrow to start and then it will be the 14th - join in the fun at Artful Times with us.
