Grungey Monday, Tim Holtz Wearable Art Challenge

Well it's time for another Grungey Monday Challenge over at Studio L3, how quickly the week goes by! For their Tim Holtz Wearable Art Challenge, I decided to give one of my hats a makeover with a Steam Punk style hat band. I love hats and this bowler hat is one of my favourites. I made the hat band by running some strips of grunge paper through my Cuttlebug, using a cog embossing folder. I then coloured this with gold paint dabber, lightly sanded the surface and rubbed in a little Vintage Photo DI. The cogs were die cut from grunge paper, using Tim's Sizzix large cog die.These were coloured with gold and silver paint dabbers and 'vintaged with various distress inks. I then dipped them in UTEE using my Melt Pot. I cut the leaves and flowers similar to Tims Tattered Florals, on my Pazzles machine, they've been coloured with distress inks and stamped with Archival black, I used a clock background stamp and a dots background both from The Artistic Stamper and also my favourite Crafty Individulas flourish stamp. I dipped each layer in UTEE before assembling the flowers. The Artful Splodger have a very good video on this technique. I usually wear this hat at music festivals, roll on the summer, as I think it will be fun to wear and certainly unique !