Dream Big ...

It was back to school for the kids last week and I wanted to make something for my son to encourage him to keep on using his imagination, never give up, believe in his dreams etc.  He loves my cogs and so I thought I'd make something that he can pop up in his room, something just for him.

This is what I came up with ... it's a 'wreath' made out of my Tim Holtz cogs dies, all heat embossed with varying types of embossing powders and rubbed with metallic rubons to create a bit more of a rusty look. I also used some walnut ink for the dark brown colour.

These little pins are from Tim Holtz and the ticket is from My 2 Angels and some Scrapmatts cogs.

I used some Glimmermist to create a sprayed background on some cardstock, as well as embossing with bubble wrap stamped ink ... does that make sense! I used the bubble wrap to stamp the Embossing medium on the paper, sprinked on the embossing powder, and then heated.  I re-coloured these dusty blue Thickers with some of the metallic rubons as well to make them blend in a little more.

And here's a little arrow I added in from My 2 Angels as well.

While I was part way through this project, my favourite Pritt ran out :(  I had a few tubes in my stash for a while, but they were never going to last forever.  I found a couple of references to x-press it's clear glue, and thought I'd give it a try ... and am happy to say that it matches up to Pritt really well :)  Good timing for this challenge on x-press it's blog.