A Vintage Journey - February Challenge - Industrial

Welcome to a our new challenge for February 2016. Our challenge this month is :

INDUSTRIAL

"Use your foil tape, metallic card stock along with your Texture Fades/Embossing Folders to create an industrial creation all your own.

Whether it's a background or bloom or metal embellishments; don't limit your paint colour to black..... industrial can look great in all colours!

The Creative Guides have created a wide array of industrial projects to inspire you on your journey.

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 Tracy Evans

I opted to take this opportunity to create something a little different for my hubby for Valentine's Day....an altered frame. I love adding layers to my design along with vintage and found items; which this piece has in abundance incuding old watch parts, chicken wire combined with metal embellishments from the Idea-ology range. Hope hubby likes his quirky Valentine's gift! For more details please pop by my blog.

Jennie

Well despite being urged to do something colourful I ended up using black and sepia! I love these two (normally three) gents and had them in mind as the original industrial designer gents. If you would like to see some more details (particularly the different shades of black I used!) then hop on over to my blog.

Anne

Tracy's 'Industrial' Theme was perfect for me as I needed to make a birthday card

for my ex-Navy Brother.  You can see more over on my blog.

Nikki

I decided to use an Ikea shadow box to display my industrial butterflies. I have used paint and alcohol inks on the embossed trio and decorated the frame with tissue wrap and translucent paints. There are more details and photographs at Addicted to Art today.

S@ndy

What a great theme for this months challenge.  I used some of my favorite things for this canvas.  I always love using Tim's Gadget Gears & Layering Stencils so I combined them with one of the great images from Graphic 45's Steampunk Debutante Line. 

 Stop by my blog, My "Crafty" Life on the Internet, to see more details.

Annie 

I absolutely love this Industrial styled card using various Tim Holtz products.....such great fun to put together too. For a closer look and more details hop over to my blog

Astrid

My project is part of a much larger one, it's the spine of aN altered journal/mini book I am working on. If you would like to see how it all came together, all you need to do is visit my blog HERE

Deb 

I had so much fun with Tracy's Industrial theme, my only problem was deciding which one of my million ideas I wanted to use!  I finally did settle on a design after much debate and created this 'Heart Of An Industrialist' reverse canvas, come on over to my blog to find out how I made it. 

Amanda

For a good few years now I have always wanted to alter a box using Tim Holtz Industrial technique but never  quite got around to it so Tracy's theme this month gave me the perfect opportunity.  If you would like more details then be sure to stop my blog 

Brenda

My thoughts are already turning to Spring and Easter and for Tracy's 'Industrial' challenge I have combined lots of things I love - rust, metal/faux metal and altered art with Tim Holtz inspiration and techniques. This was such a fun curio box to put together and I took Tracy's advice and used foil tape to make what are normally natural elements look more industrialised. There are more photos over at Bumblebees and Butterflies.

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Thank you all who joined us for our January challenge, we have all enjoyed visiting your blogs. We look forward to seeing how you are inspired with our February Industrial Challenge.

Our challenge is a monthly one and a randomly chosen winner will receive a £20 gift voucher from our generous sponsor, Country View Crafts. We also award our Pinworthy badges to the Top 3, chosen by the Creative Guides who are subsequently invited to join us on the blog as a guest designer.

You have until Thursday 25th February to enter and we will then select our random winner who will win a £20 voucher at Country View Crafts and our Pinworthies who we look forward to welcoming as guest designers. You can find all the Creative Guide projects, guest designers, pinworthies and winners on our Pinterest boards.

GOOD LUCK!
Tracy Evans xx

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