Saturday, 3 May 2014

PA Inspired Huge Tag


Night 6 over at PA is the turn of the Ellen Vargo range of stamps. You can see the 3 lovely projects made with them here. I decided to base my huge tag on the 3rd project by Ruth.


I coloured the background with portfolio pastels and blended them in. Stamped the scratchy EV pod and circle shapes randomly in snowflake fresco paint. Added PA Mini script with a swipe of black stazon.


I mixed some pearl with the snowflake to give a bit of a metallic sheen and used the square dots (does that make sense??) EV stamp with this as above, you can just see the glimmer.


I chose one of the Artistcellar stencils from the pods collection that I won a while ago. I stencilled in white snowflake.


Close up of the snowflake stencilling and PA mini script stamp.




And finally I used the 12 x 12 Prima bubbles stencil to do the bumping with the snowflake and a colour.


As I can't do shading, I wanted to add white pencil, but when I tried it just scraped the coloured paint off.


So I took my black smudgy pencil instead which actually says 'soft' on it, and added a bit of what I call shading!!


This was great fun and incorporated loads of techniques - thanks Ruth 


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14 comments:

  1. Lin3 May 2014 at 10:46

    wow Sam this is lovely..great step by step!! so we can see it progress..I liked the Ruth project too!! lovely and bright. Great interpretaion!! and wicked shading xxx

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  2. Helen3 May 2014 at 11:07

    Sam this is bright and beautiful!!

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  3. Alison3 May 2014 at 12:37

    Beautiful!!! xxx

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  4. Words and Pictures3 May 2014 at 16:19

    Gorgeous bold colour blocking and I love those bumped bubbles - fab tag!
    Alison x

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  5. massofhair3 May 2014 at 16:47

    One of your best Tags of 2014 so far Sam, adore the 3D look of the bumped circles! :-) x

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  6. Darcy Marshall3 May 2014 at 20:44

    Really nice bumped bubbles, loving the colours.

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  7. Julie Lee3 May 2014 at 20:52

    I do love the effect of 'bumping' and it looks great with these colours. Fab tag, Sam xxx

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  8. Ruth3 May 2014 at 23:12

    FABULOUS!! Love the colours and the white stencilling really does bring it all together. It's lovely to get feedback but to have produced something that inspires someone is a huge compliment so thank you, it's a great interpretation! Ruth x

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  9. Etsuko4 May 2014 at 00:09

    Beautiful tag and pretty colours xx

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  10. chrissie4 May 2014 at 07:23

    This is wonderful Sam. Love all the colours and the techniques

    Chrissie x

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  11. Deborah4 May 2014 at 07:40

    Love your multicoloured tag, Sam - and the multilayered stencilling.

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  12. hazel4 May 2014 at 10:12

    A brilliant tag, the colours are fab.
    xxx Hazel.

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  13. Anonymous4 May 2014 at 16:00

    Terrific tag Sam, the colours look great.

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  14. Sue5 May 2014 at 09:46

    I really like this Sam, I love the bold colours and the bumping. I don't think I'll be getting to Donny this June, but I'm working on it ;-) xx

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