A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Thursday, 27 April 2017

Rusty Teapot

Today's Ways to Use It challenge over at SCS is "Two for Tea" (to feature tea on your card), and with tea being my favourite beverage, I had to take part!


A while back I was at Loll Thompson's house and we played with her rusting powder. I used it to edge a couple of panels, and I still had one sitting in my UFO box. It was the perfect size for the stamp I used (teapot and sentiment all in one stamp), and also the rusty colour is the colour of tea (regular black tea at least!).

I stamped in Distress Oxide Vintage Photo (the new oxide inks stamp nice and sharp compared to the regular Distress inks), heat embossed, and then coloured in the teapot with a bit of the ink.  I sponged a bit of regular Antique Linen around the stamping so it wasn't so stark white - I wanted quite a vintage look.

I mounted it on fun foam on a piece of text dp.

In case you're interested in how the rusting powder is used: you paint gesso around the edges of the cs, then sprinkle on the rusting powder, let the gesso dry, then spritz with vinegar, let it dry, and repeat the vinegar a couple more times. It streaks and runs just the way something does when it goes rusty. Quite a neat effect but it has a really horrid smell during the process!





Supplies:
Stamps - Hampton Art
Ink - Distress Oxide Vintage Photo, Distress Antique Linen
Paper - white cs, unknown dp
Size - A2
Accessories - rusting powder, gesso, vinegar, clear embossing powder, fun foam



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7 comments:

  1. nancy littrell28 April 2017 at 12:49

    TFS your vintage tea pot rusty image, Susan. Such a cool vintage effect. Is it a vinegar smell or worse? You really did get an amazing rusty look though to your card. TFS my friend. Hugs...

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  2. Bonnie28 April 2017 at 16:06

    This rusty piece worked perfectly with your teapot! I love this!

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  3. Loll28 April 2017 at 23:10

    Great pairing with your rusted piece and your teapot and sentiment. Love the scripty background too. We need to play some more with the rusting technique. I don't think I used any of the samples we made together. :) You're right ... the smell is bad. Maybe next time we'll do it outside. :) xx

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  4. Mac Mable30 April 2017 at 08:19

    Such a clever technique..even if it smells! Vintage looking card and loving the tea pot theme x

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  5. Julia Aston30 April 2017 at 14:56

    Your rusted edge is perfect framing your wonderful tea stamp Susan!

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  6. Nstiz4 May 2017 at 12:35

    How I love the vintage look on this one Susan! What a cool technique and your results are wonderful! Funny you didn't like the smell since I just happen to love the smell of vinegar. Weird, I know.

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    1. Susan4 May 2017 at 12:39

      It wasn't the vinegar smell but the combination of the vinegar and the rusting compound - truly horrid. Loll and Christine hated it too!

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