Hi there! This time I wanted to share with you a
little tutorial about how I treated my gear chipboards.
First I colored the pieces roughly with a Distress Stain,
color Spiced Marmelade. I know, orange it's not the first color you think, when
you think about metal gears, but I thought it would make a great, rusty base
for the other layers of color.
Then I added a brown shade across the whole surface using
Distress Ink, color Tea Dye.
More layers of color! To get more depth to the gears I
added darker brown (Walnut Stain) and black (Balck Soot) here and there. The
point is not to cover the whole surface, but add a touch of it here and there.
Then I embossed the gears. I used three different
embossing powders - copper (Wow - ultra high copper), rust (Ranger -
Antiquities Rust) and clear (Wow - Semidull). I wanted to add a touch of
metallics to the gears, but not too much, because I've just created great color
layers with the inks. I used embossing ink to the whole surface and then
sprinkled a littel embossing powder to the gear, like a pinch of salt. after
adding the two coloured powders, I covered the whole shape with clear powder
and then embossed it. Thus the different powders melt together nicely.
Lastly I added some black ink directly from the ink
pad to make the rusty parts really stand out."
Riikka
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