Hi there!A male project is a challanging experience! I haven’t yet had a situation where I immediately know what I’m going to come up with when such an order comes in. I have a trick for this, which so far has worked out great. I ask my lovely customers about the likes and hobbies of the gentleman receiving the card. Someone would say I’m complicating things for myself, but for me it really is making it easier. It takes me a while to figure out how to use the information I’ve gathered, but then the work just rolls on by itself. So, as you can guess, this time it was a gentleman with a love of motorbikes. Come on, I’ll tell you more!
As a base I used the papers from the “Breeze of Dreams” collection from Margaret Paper Design. I cut out small elements from the cover of the collection: a woman with suitcases, kittens on chains and a motorbike. I glued these small elements with cardboard underneath for a 3D effect. The edges of the base are stitched on the machine with a rather chaotic stitch, and are ragged and distressed.
I was asked to put a speed meter with an arrow pointing at 40, and I managed to incorporate that into the gears and the other elements. I think it came out quite nicely.
All the chipboards apart from the motor is treated with black gesso and then finished with silver wax in varying intensity. The motorbike, on the other hand, I darkened the edges with brown ink and also finished with silver wax. All the elements are layered, additionally glued from underneath and overlapping each other, creating an extremely precise 3D composition. Can you see this cool spider!
I’m very curious to know how you like the work made almost entirely from cardboard shapes. I know one thing: I probably wouldn’t be able to do the project anymore without these wonderful additions from Dusty Attic!
Dusty Attic’s products:
Industrial Border #1 DA1949
Spiders #2 DA0114
Motorbike DA0126
Screw Heads DA2879
Gear Edge Border DA2866
Gears #1 by Nuneka DA2734
Mini Moustaches DA1220
Mini Card Sentiments DA3297
Wordplay #1 Black DA1785
Thanks and see you soon!
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