Flower Tag

I covered a large mdf tag with a mix of cotton scrim and black powertex, I then powertexed a piece of fabric mesh over the top of it.  Cut a couple of polystyrene balls in half and added some rusty hardware.

Then I used green pigments and coloured the background. I used violet and red interference pigments on the balls.

I added gilding paste to the hardware and left it to dry for about an hour.

I placed purple metallic foil over the gilding paste and then added rusty nails to the balls.

Added a piece of ribbon and went outside and hung it from a tree to take some photos.

It's quite 3 dimensional.

I love the colours.

And finally a close up.

Experiment of colour and textures

 

I made a paste of ivory powertex and kitchen roll.  I spread it on an mdf substrate and created other shapes.

Once dry I painted it with watercolour paints. I used black gesso to outline the edges.

I dotted gilding paste randomly onto the piece.  I waited for about an hour for it to dry.

Once it was semi dry I used metallic foil where I had applied the paste.

Close up of some of the metallic foil.

Was just having a bit of a play to see if the foiling worked and how the paste would come out.

Large Boho Style Tags

Painted tags with various colours of decoart metallic paints.

Added black modelling paste through a stencil.

Close ups of the metallics.

Foiled dots added, treasure gold to tone down the black paste and a fabric trim.

Tasselled ribbon and fabric trim added.  I didn't want to cover up too much of the metallics.

Mini Book with Sleeve

I cut some chipboard pieces, scrunched up some tin foil and covered each piece. I made a little niche for the front.

I mixed some ultra matte varnish with black gesso, just to help the gesso stick to the tinfoil.

I dry brushed white gesso over the top once dry and then used some copper metallic lustres over the pieces to hi-light the texture.

I made a mini book to actually fit inside another tray for another swap, but because I covered the chipboard pieces with denim, it was too thick to fit!! Inside are three signatures of two double pages of different handmade papers and I stamped an image on each page in timber brown stazon.

I decorated the mini book with some lace and a few gems.

So here is the book and the sleeve to house it.

Then I decided that the front needed something, so I found this image in my stash, cut it down to size and added a couple of idea-ology word stickers.

Here they are together.

And the book fits nicely inside the sleeve. The sleeve measures approx 9cm x 6cm just to give you an idea of size.

Products are from the DecoArt range.

Go Grungy

Over at PanPastelUK this week, they have a theme of 'go grungy'. The background is a piece of corrugated coloured in eggplant, south Pacific and tikka fresco paints. Die cut leaf stems, LP images, wooden tag and frame work die stamped with script. Main LP image is stamped in royal purple stazon on an orange coloured piece of card which has been brayered.

Colour Challenge

Emma and I are having another colour challenge, this time I chose the colours and elements.  Colours are as above and had to include script/text, at least one die cut and a stamped image.

I covered a piece of corrugated in TH patterned papers and cut a recess which I covered in text book paper.  I painted the tag, pediment die and frame in fresco inks, I mixed various colours until I got the one I wanted.  I then stamped some script in versamark ink, covered in sticky embossing powder, heated up and added black foil.

Stamped various other images, cut them out and coloured them with seedless preserves distress ink. The main image is a PA mini stamped in black archival.

A Bit of Black n White

Another built up frame using the TH dies, stamps and lots of 3d foam!!

I decided to stick to black and white this time.  The frames were coloured in fresco paints and stamped with TH images in versamark ink.  Sticky embossing powder was poured over and then heated.  Schizzle foil in the opposite colours was pressed into the sticky, hot powder.  Unfortunately I put the foil on the pediment the wrong way round which is why it's not very sharp!!  

The main TH image was stamped on white card with black stazon, the dice beads were added and the lock and key were hi-lighted with pewter treasure gold.  The crown is from a Cuttlebug die/embossing set with black gems added.

The sun came out this afternoon so I took another photo in natural day light.