"My Hero" and Grungy Gear Flower Tutorial for Donna Salazar Designs

I so appreciate my dad and am so blessed that he has always been there for me. He's also a wonderful grandpa for our children. This candid shot was taken during one of our family Memorial Day gatherings at my parent's lakeside home. He served in the photo mapping division of the Air Force before marrying my mom. If you look closely, you can see he is wearing his Air Force cap. Not only is he a hero in my eyes for his service to our country, but for being a wonderful dad over the years. 

My layout features a variety of Donna Salazar Designs products from her GCD Studios papers to Clearsnap Mix'd Media Inx. I've also posted a tutorial for my Grungy Gear Flowers using her Want2Scrap Corrugated Board. 

"My Hero"

Tips and Techniques:

I tried to keep my embellishments masculine for this page, but a girl's got to put some flowers on her pages, so I created more of my Grungy Gear Flowers. Scroll down to find my tutorial for these flowers. 

I've used Donna's Want2Scrap Corrugated Board in several different ways including the gears, Grungy Gear Flowers, and torn strips to help frame my photo. 

The glitter on my charm needed toned down a bit, so I rubbed it with Donna's Clearsnap Stormy Mix'd Media Inx. I just adore this new color in Donna's MMI collection, a perfect grungy gray!!  

Above is a shot of my smaller cluster including a Grungy Gear Flower. I created the rolled twine and burlap ribbon flowers using twine from Really Reasonable Ribbon, then grunged them up by rubbing with MMI.

I've used the Donna Salazar Designs Art Gone Wild Chicken Wire stamp next to the photo and on the outer page border. 

Donna's products are just amazing for adding texture and dimension to my pages. Here I used molding paste with her Want2Scrap Houndstooth Stencil. I wanted to add some pewter/grey mist, so I rubbed Clearsnap Stormy Mix'd Media Inx onto a craft mat, spritzed with water and placed the solution into a misting bottle so that I could mist the houndstooth design and drip it down my page. Once dry, I lightly rubbed Jasmine MMI onto the peaks of the houndstooth design. For the photo mats, I stamped the outer mat with Dear Sir and the mat next to the photo with Ruler overlapping the Woodgrain stamp. Of course I used my favorite scrappy tool, the DSD Zutter Distrezz-it-All on all my edges. 

I used Donna's GCD Studio's Family Jeans Chipboard Alpha's here for my title. I just rubbed some Stormy MMI across the letters to grunge them up. My papers are from the GCD Family Jeans and Natural Beauty Collections. In the corners I also added strips of dictionary paper from the Mixed Media Stax2 which you can see in the full shot of my page. 

Grungy Gear Flower Tutorial

Supplies:

Supplies List:

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Corrugated Board

Spellbinders - Artisan X-plorer

Spellbinders ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Sprightly Sprockets Dies

Colorsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mixed Media Inx, Jasmine

Colorsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mixed Media Inx Embossing Powder, Black

Vintage gears/hex nuts - my stash

Heat Tool - not pictured

Step 1. Cut a gear from corrugated board using the Sprightly Sprockets Gear die shown in the Supplies List photo, then trim the outer section into petals as shown below. 

Step 2. Lay the die cut gear onto the Jasmine MMI pad and press it randomly down into the ink, allowing some of the natural cardboard to show through. 

Step 3. Lightly sprinkle black MMI Embossing Powder across the inked gear. Sprinkle fairly heavily in some areas and lighter in others to give a grungy texture. 

 

Use tweezers to hold the piece for the next step.

Step 4. Heat with a heat tool, just until the embossing powder melts.

Step 5. Curl the "petals" and add vintage gears or other elements of your choice to the center or even leave it plain.

A side view:

Here's a Grungy Gear Flower from a previous project using black cardstock rubbed with Viva Inka Gold:

As you can see, you could make these flowers with a variety of materials and change up the grungy inking and effects to go with the page you are creating. I hope you will try some out on that next grungy guy page you create, or a girlie grunge layout for that matter!! 

Product List:

Paper

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty, Wall Vines B

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty, 6" x 6" Pad

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Family Jeans, Denim Stipe B

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Stax2

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Corrugated Board

Chipboard

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Family Jeans, Alphas

Stamps

Art Gone Wild ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Chicken Wire

Art Gone Wild ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Ruler

Art Gone Wild ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Dear Sir

Art Gone Wild ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Woodgrain

Colors/InksArt 

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx, Jasmine, Stormy

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder, Black

DecoArt - Renaissance Brown Acrylic Paint

Lumiere - Metallic Bronze Acrylic Paint

Stencils

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Houndstooth Stencil

Dies

Spellbinders ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Sprightly Sprockets

Punches

Fiskars - 1 1/2" Circle Punch

EK Success - 1" Circle Punch

Embellishments

Vintage gears/hex nuts/screw/button - Earl Hennis' Workshop - Thanks Mandy!

Art.i.cake by Amy Labbe - Charms with Glass Accents

Ribbons/Fibers

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Jute Rope, Natural

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Jute Ribbon, Natural 5/8"

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Burlap Woven Ribbon 1.5"

Adhesives

Helmar - 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Helmar - Fabric Glue

Helmar Premium Craft Glue

Tools

Zutter ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Distrezz-it-All

Spellbinders - Artisan X-plorer

Darice - Heat Tool

Ranger - Craft Sheet

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~