Seth Workshops - Day One

I've just spent a lovely couple of days somewhere down Essex way in a fabulous village hall in a  place called Coggeshall organised by the ladies at Birds in the Barn.

We were all given a 9" x 12" watercolour book as the workshop was about using different paint techniques including monoprinting.  These are the two lovely ladies who I sat opposite.

Seth doing a demo, so we all crowded round his table.

This was page two.

Seth giving this lady a catch up as unfortunately she was a little late getting there.

You can't really see this page very well as for some reason my camera doesn't like purples or blues. But this was the best page as we had to go round to other people and press the pages together to see what transferred and obviously the longer it went on, the drier the paint got and the less transferred. My last transfer was a black transfer with Seth! 

And again sorry about the photo but it's mainly blue, but has lots of layers on.

Now the lady on the next table to us in the red top, I actually know through blogging. But I didn't know that until she introduced herself to me.

This was Bev, the lady I was sat next to. All the ladies on my table were only doing the one class.

There was also a pop up shop, but I didn't buy anything as it just had the staple goodies. I think it was probably in case anyone had forgotten anything or wanted to like buy PaperArtsy paints, as they are what we used in the workshop. Had there have been any stencils I may have had a purchase, but Mark forgot to bring them!!!

Oriental Adventure

I've carried on with the oriental theme, but I also wanted to incorporate some of my new birthday presents, ie Seth's dies.

Close up of the stamping and the die cuts, top left panel.

The cross bar die with a Lynne Perrella PaperArtsy stamped image.

Cherry red, blood orange and little black dress fresco paints brayered onto the die cuts and oriental script paper backing.

PaperArtsy have a theme this week of squares and grids.

Oriental Tag

I've got a couple of days off and wanted to play oriental as I've not done so for ages! The background tag is brayered, a die cut was added to the top and some red fibres.

This is one oriental stamp, I stamped it twice and cut four pieces out and mounted them on 3d foam over the relevant squares and added a bit of colour with a red pitt pen.

PaperArtsy have a theme of grids and squares.

Another Male Card

As I was on a roll and had lots of dies left over and the left over bits, I decided to keep going and make another card been as I will need one for November.

I used a blue sharpie pen to doodle with, outlined the shapes and added a few dots. The circle off cuts were stamped with ultra marine blue stazon and the Seth stamps.

I also stamped some of the circle images onto the background piece too.

I'm also entering into the PaperArtsy blog challenge this week.

A Couple of Male Birthday Cards

I needed a couple of male birthday cards for later this week and I thought Seth's dies would be perfect for that male touch. Layered up lots of shades of fresco paints in blues and browns. Lightly stamped some of the images in Seth's solar system set in blue and brown stazon. I coloured the brown set of dies with french roast and the blue set are actually double embossed using blue wow powders, I don't have any in brown!! But, can you spot the deliberate mistake probably not on the photo, but on the right card, I meant to put the die cut with the 'x' on the bottom and the drips over the top, but I stuck the drips one on first by mistake!! Not to worry, it still looks okay!!

And I'm also sneaking these into the PaperArsty challenge this week.

Journal Page

I wanted to use the 'waste' from the Seth die cuts in some way, so here's what I came up with.

Added the eyes from another image and swapped them over!

Added some dots and doodling.

Whitened the eyes and the teeth and gave her some luscious lashes.

PaperArtsy have a theme of die cuts, and I'm entering my page.

Circles Journal Page

This page was already started with a base layer of grey. I built up the layers with various colours of fresco paints and stamped in chalk and stone. 

Used a purple posca pen, a black micron pen and a white sharpie to outline and add doodling. It is a lot brighter in real life.

PaperArtsy have a theme of die cuts this week, so I'm entering with Seth's spellbinders sets.

Another couple of Layered Tags

I started brayering the backgrounds with various colours of fresco paints including tango, autumn fire, zesty zing, very berry, pumpkin soup and probably some more.

I used Kate Crane's hand carved stamp set with Baltic blue and turquoise fresco paints to stamp the images in the backgrounds.

I put some images together to create some more images and added doodling with graphik liner pens and a white sharpie.

The tags are approx size #10.

Layers and Layers

I wanted to colour some powertex makes but they weren't dry so I decided to have another play with Seth's layering techniques as demonstrated by Ali at Port Sunny.

Once finished I added some of Seth's die cuts by Spellbinders. I can't exactly remember which frescos I used apart from the fact I started off with black, added some marlin, guacamole, haystack and probably a few more until I was happy with what I had. The stenciling was done with nougat and Baltic blue.

For this tag I started off with a white background using snowflake and again kept adding layers of colour until I liked what I saw. I know I have haystack, guacamole, seaweed and turquoise on there somewhere.

I used the same mini stencil with Baltic blue, a Seth stencil from Stencil Girls and some more Seth die cuts.

And this canvas was a bonus, because instead of using a piece of paper to clean the brayer between colours, I simply brayered onto this canvas instead. Again another Seth stencil, but this is the first time I've used it. I think I probably needed to do some stamping in the background before I used it, but there's always next time!

Tags, side by side.

PaperArtsy have a challenge theme this week of die cuts, so I'd like to enter my tags and canvas.

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I'm much happier now that I've added some stamping to the background.

Tags with New Goodies

I treated myself to some Seth Apter stencils and some Teesha Moore stamps. These have all been on my wish list for ages!!!

I also treated myself to a Seth Apter Webinar called Magic of Mixed Media Layers, and first off was to give your chosen surface a coat of black gesso.

Next add a rough layer of a colour you're not too fond of, hence mine are all a shade of pink - lol 

Then add another layer of another colour.

Next, add paint to another surface, ie the tag on the right, and squish it onto the other tags. 

Keep going with these layers until you are happy with what you get, added bonus is, you end up with a forth background surface.

Next add random background stamping, I used various colours of Stazon and parts of a variety of cling stamps.

Then using my brand new Seth Stencils, I stenciled onto the tags using a stipple brush.

 

I added doodling with a white and black posca pen and outlined some of the stenciling and I really liked them as they are, but as Seth said, don't be afraid to add the next layer, so here goes!

I stamped some of my new Teesha girls onto white paper and coloured them in with a variety of bright coloured pens.

  

And this is how they've finished up.

Crackle Inspired Tags

Leandra's been on periscope again and this time she showed a few techniques with the PA crackle glaze and the fresco paints. I tried a couple of them out as you can see above and this is probably the best crackle I've ever achieved with this product.

And this is what I did with them.

Close up of the multi-colours and stamping through the crackle.

I used a couple of stamped fabric pieces from a workshop I attended last year as I didn't want to cover too much up.

Might just need to add some fibres to this one.

Close up of the crackle with limelight, yellow submarine, tango and plum painted over the top, then sanded back especially around the edges as I wanted a very grungy, distressed look.

Close up of the die cut cogs.

Background cogs were stamped in timber brown stazon over the crackled tag.

A Vintage Journey have a theme of industrial, so I'd like to enter this tag.