Go Rust-ic for Our Creative Corner

Hello everyone and happy October to you all. Like usual on the first of the month I have a couple of posts to share with you, so if you are here for the second time today, thank you for doing so.

At  Our Creative Corner, the theme this month, chosen by the lovely and very talented  Laura is "Go Rustic"

This is what Laura had to say about the challenge:
"I really love Autumn and find it very inspiring with all those textures and colours we see in nature right now. So I decided to bring those textures and colours into a challenge here and see all that rustic creativity at Our Creative Corner!
We want to see a huge variety of items, so make anything you like - but add some RUST!
Now you can take this Rust-ic creativity to any level you like - You can use just use some rusty autumnal colours or you can really go for it and work with gorgeous, rough textured, grungy, real or faux rust.
So.....How 'rusty' are you?"....
I decided to share a journal page using my beloved Autumnal colours and of course some rusted elements. There was no real plan to the page, it just evolved:

The page started life as a mop up page with left overs from other projects, so I cannot quite tell you what is on there.

 Acrylic paint in a variety of makes and colours, including Distress Paints in Rusty Hinge, some twinkling H20s and some Distress Stain in Walnut stain were definitely in there somewhere. I used baby wipes and kitchen roll, mopping up from my craft mat over various days, just adding more layers whenever I had paint left over that I did not want to go to waste.

When I decided to use this page as the background for my rusty creation I decided to add some texture with the help of a Prima stencil and  some Wendy Vecchi translucent texture paste. When that had dried I added some Bister in brown and some strips of tissue tape. I also did some background stamping with various Prima stamps. Next I prepared my rusty piece...

I took a piece of corrugated packaging from a ripped up box and started to play with Crafty Notions Rusting powder and Antiquities embossing powders in Rust and Verdigris.

As I had my box of Prima stamps out already anyway, I took two of the lovely Finnabair stamps, stamped them on thin card in Coffee Archival, scrunched them up and then inked with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress inks and voila, two bits of old looking ephemera.

It needed a kind f vocal point, so out came a leaf, cut with the new Tim Holtz Layered Leaf and embossing folder. I coloured with a mix of Distress Stains and added some more "rust" with the help of the embossing powders.

I had this metal bee flying around on my desk, so it too got the rusting treatment and then I started to layer it all up.

As you can see, in the end I decided to also add a few flowers still and a sentiment. The flowers were made using a Heartfelt Creations stamp and die from the new Classic Sunflower collection, and that was pretty much it.
Here are a few close ups still:

The sentiment was cut from one of the papers of the Classic Sunflower collections, if you have not seen it and you like papers, check it out, it's gorgeous!

I added some bits of greenery still, again, leftovers from other projects.

I also added a second leaf still, this one is a Spellbinder die.

Well, that was it, I had great fun playing in my journal and I hope you like it. It turned out rather brighter than most of my other projects, but hey, it is Autumn after all and we are surrounded by oranges, browns and reds, so I guess they influenced me.

Thank you for visiting like always and I hope you will have some creative time too. Do check out the wonderful projects from my team mates, all you need to do is click HERE and hopefully you will feel inspired to play along!