Hello!

I have one of those amazing giant keys to share this week with a lovely grunged up surface that I really loved creating as I wanted the rusty, crusty look of a very old key which might lead to a secret garden. Happily this is actually simpler to make than you might think too.

The first step was to apply some Sand Texture Paste to the surface of the key with my fingers - as I wanted a really grungy, rusty look using your fingers gives the best effect.

Once the paste was dry, I began to rust it up with Multi Surface Paints, starting with Teal and dabbing the paint on. I followed up with Orange, Chestnut Brown and finally Copper.

I then made my embellishments, choosing the gorgeous sweet peas and butterflies from the stamp set. I stamped them with black ink and heat embossed them with clear powder. I coloured them with Zig markers and cut them out.

I glued them onto the key and finished off with text from the same stamp set, stamped on a scrap of overflow paper with black ink.

Have a great weekend and see you next week.