Going in order of age from oldest to youngest, the third door hanger was for my nephew who is really into cycling. As I didn't have anything suitable for decorating it, I had to order a couple of items (a stencil and a stamp) to make this, but as I loved the result it didn't really matter.
This time once the two coats of gesso were dry, I used gold acrylic paint for the top layers. As you can see from the photo, one layer of gold was not enough; a second coat produced a more even finish. Unlike the other door hangers, I decided to decorate both sides of this one.
I kept the back simple; black texture paste through the Tread Carefully stencil by Andy Skinner.
The front was decorated using the Worn Text stamps by Tim Holtz. I was originally going to stamp 'Busy planning a route', but there were too many 'n's in planning to line up the word in one go, so I changed it to 'sorting' as I could stamp that in one go.
The bicycle stamp, which I ordered the previous week, arrived just in the nick of time to complete the hanger. Once again I used black Archival ink for the stamping and heat embossed using clear detail embossing powder.
This time once the two coats of gesso were dry, I used gold acrylic paint for the top layers. As you can see from the photo, one layer of gold was not enough; a second coat produced a more even finish. Unlike the other door hangers, I decided to decorate both sides of this one. 
I kept the back simple; black texture paste through the Tread Carefully stencil by Andy Skinner.The front was decorated using the Worn Text stamps by Tim Holtz. I was originally going to stamp 'Busy planning a route', but there were too many 'n's in planning to line up the word in one go, so I changed it to 'sorting' as I could stamp that in one go.
The bicycle stamp, which I ordered the previous week, arrived just in the nick of time to complete the hanger. Once again I used black Archival ink for the stamping and heat embossed using clear detail embossing powder.
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