Effect Powders Challenge 11 on pg 52 of CC3

Over at Linda's place called L3, she is running the Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challenge where by she chooses a technique on a page and we get to give it a go and enter her challenge!

There is an awesome prize up for grabs for the project chosen by the Curiosity Crew (who supply oodles of inspiration each challenge) sponsored by Tim and Mario and every alternate challenge is sponsored by  Inspiration Emporium (as in this weeks challenge cos it is an odd number) or The Funky Junky (on the even challenges) for the lucky draw prize!

I have been quietly busy on this configurations box on and off for a week now, knowing that I wanted to use this Effect powders technique on it in two places at least and then inspiration hit today with a bang...

I wanted this to be about our overseas trip to Europe in 1998.  I was inspired by the Eiffel Tower on the round chipboard sticker which I covered in Rock candy Crackle paint.

 I cannot remember who this stamp set is made by any more, I really think that manufactures should put their name on the plastic somewhere like Stampers Anonymous and Tim does...

 I stamped the Eiffel Tower onto mount board, cut it out and did the effect as per Page 52 using Black soot and Brushed corduroy distress powders to get the look of rust.

 Then to add extra dimension, I stamped over it in Jet black Archival ink.

   I also used the effect powders on some chipboard stickers which I layered (the eye chart and a postcard) from the same sticker set and turned them into a mini book cover where I will transfer some of the diary entries I wrote during our time in Paris as well as having some of my films scanned and photos printed to go in the little album which hangs on the side of the box using a G45 hook and an idea-ology mini clip.

 This is the mini album as it hangs on the side of the box

 I used Glossy accents on the feet of the tower to stand it up in its box in front of the map of the UK and France which I had used inside that box.

 I had fun with the film strip as I recently read somewhere that if you bend it and heat it, it will hold its shape when it cools and so I tried it out to make the "loop de loop" of my plane and it made gluing it to the top so much easier cos it did not fight me like it usually does without the heating process...for the life of me, I cannot remember where I read this neat little tip, if I do, I will gladly give the blogger her due recognition, but for now it escapes me!

I also used the film strip to portray all the photos I took (36 rolls of 36 exp) in a 6 week trip round the UK, France and Italy...those were the days before digital...imagine how many photos I would take now if I did the same trip?

 Here you can see that the box can still come apart and (below) how I put the two hearts backing paper onto 4 layers of foam tape to bring it forward a bit because these boxes are so deep.

 I leave you with a final close up of the Effect Powders used above and below.  This has been a fun project to work on as it took me an a lovely trip down memory lane.