Explore Everything Tag

Ooooh it's been, and still is, so hot today. I was urging to do something but I really was so hot and bothered, however I did manage this tag using Seth's stamps and dies and distress oxides. I finally cracked open the fossilized amber! The good thing is, it's great weather to get a decent photo!

Male Birthday Card

Lesley saw these gelli prints (the black ones) and asked what I would do with them, so I challenged myself to use them as I need a card for my BIL.

So I used Seth's die cuts and created this card from two of the prints.

The background is white gesso and I've penned around the die cuts to help them stand out.

Layers and more layers

I couldn't even begin to tell you how many layers this piece of card has taken, I simply just kept going until I liked what I saw. There is brayering, stenciling, stamping and I must have used about twelve different colours and varieties of paint from the DecoArt range. I had some of Seth dies already cut, so grabbed a handful and started to place them on the background, as this is what I ended up with, which incidently was nothing like what it started out as! Finally I added the black words and 'X's. 

I'm sat looking at this photo and I'm thinking that something needs to added to the space at the bottom between the two sets of 'x's. I may go back in and add another word in black.

Thrinchies and Inchies

To complete the set I made some 3" x 3" squares. Not sure if they are called thrinchies or not! Backgrounds are distress inks in vintage photo, walnut stain and black soot. I used a Seth die and ripped pieces out of it and used it on the backgrounds of the two with small tickets on. Everything else is stamped, tissue tape or the TH larger tickets.

And with a spare piece of card, I made another three inchies.

More Bookmarks

I made this set of bookmarks in exactly the same way I made the previous two sets, using the die cut shapes, the tissue paper and the cut out images.

There are 7 of us playing in the swap and I am sending to everyone, so I needed a couple more to be able to send everyone a couple, so I decided to take a different approach and ended up with these, which I am entering into this weeks PaperArsty challenge of squares and grids.

Bookmarks for a Swap

I brayered about 4 different colours of decoart multi surface satin paint onto a piece of 8"x8" white card. I die cut some Seth shapes and coloured them in a contrasting colour and stuck them to the card. I stuck tissue paper over the top of everything.

I did exactly the same with this one but used a different colour pallet and different die cut shapes.

Once completely dry I cut the edges down and added some more colour using the paints in the media misters. I applied them with a babywipe.

Close up of the purple and violet media misters.

And for this one I used the green, yellow and turquoise shimmer media mister.

Close up of the media mister paints.

Then to tone it down a bit, I went over some areas with white gesso.

And the same for this one.

Next I added some random stamping using stazon inks.

And again applied the same process to this one.

And the last step for the background was to again use gesso to knock back some of the stamping.

And again, the same for this one.

Next I cut each piece of card into strips of 4, cut out some Teesha Moore images and words, and stuck them onto the backgrounds.

And the same for this set. I used matte decoupage glue to stick them down.

And for the final step, I added a piece of ribbon to each piece.

I made these for a swap for a group I have recently joined on FB.

Oriental Card

Carrying on with the squares and dies I made an oriental card.

Close up of the Seth die cuts, the LP stamped image and the butterfly.

PaperArtsy have a theme of squares and grid.

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.

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.

Friday 13th Atc's

I started off by mixing media texture sand paste with ultra matte varnish and randomly spread it on three white pieces of card cut to atc size.

Once dry, I gave each one a coat of media paynes grey mixed with a hint of tinting base and continued to add different colours of media paint until I was happy with the backgrounds.

Next I added the images and gave everything a coat of ultra matte varnish. Once dry I applied clear crackle glaze to parts of the atcs.

I used a combination of black and brown antiquing cream over the crackles, although they blended the images into the background quite well, they didn't really enhance the cracks, so I went back in with the white. 

I cut some chicken wire and coloured it with quin gold, used mini staples to attach it and painted them quin gold too. 

I added the chit chat words and gave them a coat of Andy's dirty wash to tone down the white.

Again added a chit chat phrase and used the dirty wash to tone it down. The X is from my new dies.

I used the media mister to drip the red paint down the atc.

That's Crafty have a theme of Friday 13th.

All products are from DecoArt media range.

X's and Eye Tag

 

Had great fun with this tag. I took 6 colours of media paint and swooshed them onto the black tag with my fingers. Once happy I used the AS chevron stencil and chalky everlasting paint. Then using the original colour pallet I used the stencil again to bump the images.

Used the Andy Skinner scratch stamp in black stazon, then over stamped in media paints, pyrrole orange and blue green light. Stamped the script in whisper (off white) chalky paint. 

Again using my fingers I swirled everlasting chalky paint in a circle to house the TH eye stamp. I die cut two of the drips shapes and stuck them on top of each other at an angle, colouring them with the leftovers on the cut and dry from the stamping.

The X is the die cut from the middle of the drips set. They were coloured with pyrrole orange, trans yellow oxide and quin magenta. They were stamped with the AS script stamp in black stazon.

All products used are from the DecoArt range.

Tag, Dies and Doodling

Another tag using my new to me Seth Apter dies, black, red and white sharpie pens and a black out liner.

PaperArtsy have a new theme of doodles and scribbles this week, not sure if this will class as doodles, but if not I'm sure they'll let me know!!

Seth Apter Style Tag

Look what came through my letterbox yesterday. So obviously, I had to have a play.

And this is what I made, dead simple but effective. The background is a gelli plate print using the prima bubbles stencil.

PaperArtsy have a theme of monoprinting for their challenge this week.