Triple Fusion 2 Workshops

Olga kicked us off with a bird house. Anna came over to make sure we were all okay, but we had the MDF queen on our table so Nanette sorted us all out. She brought MDF glue with her, she came prepared for all of us.

The whole room trying to put their mdf bird houses together.

We got the choice of blue or pink. I don't need to tell you what I chose!!

A quick hello from our table. 

The last thing we had to do was to splatter the birdhouse, but Caroline decided to splatter herself instead!!!

And this is my finished house complete with bling.

And the top, we only did one side of the roof.

The next class was Anna's. A four layered clock face.

At the front where she was explaining the next steps.

Building up the layers.

And then the finished piece.

Sunday morning and it was Nunu's turn.

This is what we got in our Nunu kit.

Demonstrating at the front of the hall.

And this is the finished piece. We used Lindy's powders and mica powders to create the pastel effect.

I didn’t get step-by-step photos of the last project since we were rushing through it and the whole thing was kind of forced.

Dabble Day - Tattershall

Jo was holding a mixed media dabble day and there were two spaces left so it was meant to be, and it was just after our birthdays, so it was our treat.

Houses from a Stamperia mould made from plaster and washed with a brown paint.

Creating an ombre background, stencilling in glitter paste.

Janet concentrating on the stencilling.

Nearly finished, just needed to add the snow and the glitter.

Lunch was also included, which was amazing.

After lunch, we moved tables and the afternoon was paper crafting, stamping, stencilling and gluing and sticking, using a patterned paper to start with. 

I chose this page as my background and stamped and stencilled on it.

Two sessions going on in the same room.

Then later in the afternoon we had cake!!

These are my finished projects.

Clockwork Muse

I took a piece of wood from the shed, cut a piece of black lace and I also wanted to incorporate the plastic film strip. Then I started to lay embellishments down.

And I just kept building up the layers.

I finished it off with a frame and a face in a pocket watch piece of chipboard.

I stuck everything down including the piece of tissue paper on the bottom right hand corner.

I gesso'd with the white.

Then used chest of gold paint, aged brass wax and finally patina green wax to highlight the edges.

Finnabair Workshop Day 2 - Steampunk Machine

 

Off we go again, our kit for day 2 - steampunk machine.

Anna, telling us what the first step for today is.

Our table painting their wooden panels.

And the other half of our table.

Burnt sienna, umber and black ink acrylic paints with lots and lots of water. Spray the canvas, spray water into the paints and have a wet brush. The more water you use, the more fluid the paint will be. Dry and repeat until you get the depth of colour you want.

Added some stencilling using 3d soft gel.

Table 2 back at work and table 1 getting their demo from Anna at the top table.

Then our turn again for the next stage, which is flakes!!!

I decided to use just the silver and gold flakes. They look really good over the stencilling.

Everyone adding their metallic flakes.

The next step was the composition.

This was mine. I did include quite a few of my own embellishments.

Anna just taking the lid off a new pot of white gesso, so guess what was coming next!

A thin coat of white gesso!!!

I coloured the majority of the elements with bronze age wax and added black gold in as a contrast. Loved both colours and together they look amazing.

I added some green and orange to try and replicate patina / rust effect.  I felt I need to bring out some of the textures, so I used old silver wax to rub across the top of some of the elements to bring the hi-lights out.

And the last instructions of the day from Anna were to add micro beads and also use the sparks to create splatters. But only if we wanted to.

I decided to add both the microbeads and the splatters. I'm not very good at splatters but these ones didn't turn out too bad.

And finally, I added my image.