"Live the Life" Grungy Birthday Card for Donna Salazar

The trees are now bare and the cooler temperatures are settling in. We've not started a fire in our wood burner yet, but the wood is stacked next to the house ready to go. I know some of my dear followers in the Southern hemisphere are entering the hot days of summer-like weather as it cools off here.

I have created a grungy, masculine card with a steampunk edge featuring The Zutter Distrezz-it-All by Donna Salazar Designs and her Spellbinders Sprightly Sprockets dies.

"Live the Life"

Tips and Techniques

I cut these gears from thin chipboard using Donna's Spellbinders Sprightly Sprockets dies with the Spellbinders Artisan X-plorer. This machine has more pressure and cut the chipboard in just a couple passes. I swirled together some metallic copper and metallic back acrylic paint and brushed thickly across the gears. While wet, I used my heat tool to bubble and dry the paint to get this grungy, weathered texture. Then I randomly applied more metallic black paint and heated again. You could use any colors to get the effect needed for your particular project. 

Here's another view of the small gears. You can also see the grungy corrugated board in this shot. 

First, I cut a piece of Donna's Want2Scrap Corrugated Board just a little larger than the finished size I wanted. I then spritzed with water and pressed on the corrugated ridges pushing them down in different directions to get a wavy, grungy look and dried. Once dry, I deeply distressed the edges in my Distrezz-it-All which distressed cardboard with ease.  

Then I spritzed again with water, then very lightly with Donna's Wood Stain Smooch Spritz by Clearsnap and splattered with her Caramel Latte Smooch. I added a couple more sprays of Wood Stain to the overspray on my craft mat along with a couple spritzes of water, then dragged the edges of the corrugated board through the watery mist to color and darken the edges. When there was just a small bit of mist left on the sheet, I put the corrugated board face down and rubbed across the rest of the mist to highlight the ridges. 

Here you can see the larger gear and all the grungy layers including: Donna's Want2Scrap Canvas fringed and inked, then layers of dark brown cardstock and Donna's Natural Beauty papers - all distrezzed with my Distrezz-it-All. As you can see I have distressed some of the papers lightly and some deeply to get a variety of textures. I've covered most of my stamping up, but have used some of Donna's Art Gone Wild stamps on the background. 

One final shot of the grungy texture and layers. 

Donna has now released her Distrezz-it-All V3.0.

For all the details and a demonstration of this handy machine, 

check out her Youtube video here.

Donna will be giving away a new Distrezz-it-All V3.0 when

her Distrezz-it-All Facebook page gets 2,000 likes.

For other ways to enter this drawing go here. 

Donna Salazar Designs Products

GCD Studios ~ Natural Beauty 6 x 6 pad and 12 x 12 collection

Clearsnap ~ Mix'd Media Inx: Black, Leather, Pewter, Honey, Stormy

Clearsnap ~ Mix'd Media Inx CHOX: Midnight, Sparrow

Clearsnap ~ Smooch Spritz: Caramel Latte, Wood Stain

Want2Scrap ~ 7" x 7" Canvas

Art Gone Wild Stamps ~ Binoculars

Art Gone Wild Stamps ~ Brass Corner

Art Gone Wild Stamps ~ Ruler

Spellbinders ~ Sprightly Sprockets

Zutter ~ Distrezz-it-All

Other Products

Thin Chipboard

Black Webbing ~ May Arts - Really Reasonable Ribbon

Jute Ribbon ~ Really Reasonable Ribbon

Visual Artistry ~ Tim Holtz - Life's Possibilities

Folk Art Acrylic ~ Metallic Sequin Black

DecoArt ~ Dazzling Metallics - Worn Penny

Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Helmar ~ Premium Craft Glue

Helmar ~ Fabric Glue

Spellbinders ~ Artisan X-plorer

Martha Stewart ~ Mini Score Board

Darice ~ Heat Tool

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~