Industrial Matchbox

Hello friends. Hope your November is off to a great start! Before I get to my Christmas makes, I’m going to skip back to the Tim Holtz Sizzix Chapter 3 launch. You can see the Chapter 3 replay and all the makes on Tim’s blog.

I have to tell you that I love the new matchbox bigz die. It comes with a thinlits set so you can cut a circle into the matchbox sleeve and it perfectly fits the dome complete with a circle trim which I’ve used in lots of other makes on it’s own.

I started out by die cutting a matchbox using the new matchbox from distress kraft heavystock. Painted the inside with black soot distress paint and added a piece of alcohol ink foil tape embossed with the circuit 3D embossing folder to the back. Also adding a piece of this to each end of the matchbox.

The top of the matchbox was cut with the the thinlits set that I mentioned earlier. I LOVE the surround trim die, it finishes off the open circle perfectly. I covered the matchbox in opaque grit-paste and once dry, covered with a layer of ground espresso distress paint and set aside to dry. Finally dry brush crackling campfire mixed with candied apple distress paint to the edges to give a rusted effect.

There are domes that fit the matchbox that I used in another make I will be sharing soon, but you don’t need to use one and for this I wanted it to remain open, although now I’m writing this I wish I had added one and smashed it open… one for the “another time” books…

I used die cuts from the mechanical gears bigz die, stacked on top of each other and secured in place with a hex fastener.

The background tag is a #8 thickboard etcetera tag. I love these tags when I need a more substantial base. I added some more die cuts from the mechanical gears bigz die, cut from distress cracked cardstock backed with distress kraft heavystock and blended in ground espresso distress ink. I used a small gear as the hole reinforcer.

I added an idea-ology foundry adornment piece with a long fastener that I hit with a texture hammer. I love the look of the dented metal. This was mounted over a label stamped from the field notes CMS396 stamp set with distress archival ink and fussy cut.

It’s no secret that the idea-ology hardware heads are one of my fave products in the range. I added one to each corner of the matchbox.

I die cut more gears from the mechanical bigz die set from distress kraft heavystock and sanded and inked with distress.

I added a strip of foil tape that I embossed with the circuit 3D folder to each end of the matchbox base.

Thanks for stopping by.

Zoe

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