Oriental Embellishments

I've been trying to find some oriental embellishments but not had much luck, so I decided to make some myself using my stamps and embossing powders.

Used punches to shape them.

Found some images and printed them off on cream card, vellum and white paper.

And the same again but this time using script images, red card and red text on the vellum.

Atc's with Bling!!!

I covered a piece of card with sticky silver foil, cut it into ATC sized pieces and embossed each one with a different folder.

Swiped them with versa mark and added embossing powders. Heated them again and added some schizel otherwise known as foil!

Then I made a huge mistake!!! Instead of swiping a permanent ink over the top, ie archival or stazon, for reasons unknown to me, I used versa fine ink, which just would not dry!!

I couldn't use the heat tool to dry the ink as it would remelt the powders! So I sprayed them with matte varish and then swished over them again with black stazon ink! I finally chose some images and words, but didn't want to cover up too much of the backgrounds.

Masterboard ATB

I created another masterboard using fresco paints, limelight, tango, submarine, cherry red and chalk. 

I cut them up and stuck them randomly on the two strips I'd made to create the box.

I stamped the Dina images and words in black versa fine.

Then I put the box together. It's roughly 3" square.

And the other sides.

And the top.

PaperArtsy have their final challenge of the year which is masterboards, go over and check it out.

Mega Crackle Tag

When I saw Sues's blog post this morning, I just knew I had to have a play. I have been meaning to have a go at this ever since Andy put the video out there, but have been inspired by Sue. So I painted an mdf tag in lipstick, orange sherbert and school bus multi surface satin over a coat of gesso.

Then after a layer of weathered wood, I added the magic layer of crackle paste. This was just after I'd finished covering it.

And this is what it looked like when it was dry.

Close up of the crackle after a couple of coats of ultra matte varnish.

I stamped a variety of oriental images on the surface in black versa fine ink.

Close up of the stamped main image.

That's Crafty have a theme of black and white with a hint, so I'm entering my tag.

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Masterboard Tag Trio

Over on the PaperArtsy blog their last challenge of the year is masterboards. I created mine using fresco paints, malin, spanish mulberry, beach hut, eggplant and chalk, an old credit card, a brayer and a couple of stencils.

I cut it up into tag sized pieces, stamped the Dina images in black versa fine, added some background stamping in purple and blue stazon. Mounted them onto black card and cut round them.

Captured Memories

It's been such a dull and gloomy day that I wanted to get my bright and vibrant Dylusions out and have a play. I introduced a few stencils using DecoArt black and white gesso and the bump technique.

Next I switched to the DecoArt chalky paint and added more black and white through stencils. I also added the words to the heart in DecoArt black modeling paste for a raised texture.

Once the modeling paste was dry the heart needed some further attention. Black smudgy pencil but it wasn't dark and bold enough, so out came the portfolio pastels and the Clarity 'inspire' stamp and I thought it was finished.

Still the heart didn't feel finished, so I added some white dots between the two heart shapes and some black scribbley lines in the gap under the word memories and also some more stamping with a hash type stamps to fill in some gaps along with a couple of the Finn stamps. Now I think it's finished.

Tag & Atc Swap

I made these for a tag and atc swap with a theme of geometry or shapes to you and me. I basically created a master board with Dylusion paints in grape, teal, red, blue and pink background and added marks in black and white using bottle tops, bubble wrap, end of a paint brush and a credit card and stamped some EV rectangles and circles in purple and blue stazon.

I cut them into two sized tags to fit my Dina Wakley images and had enough left for 3 atc's even though the swap is only for two. Added the Dina Wakley images from the all the gals plate and out-lined them all with the smudgy pencil and smudged!

I'm also entering into the FSC challenge again this week as they have a theme of people or person.

Objection Over Ruled

This is a deep 4 x 4 canvas that I was playing around with yesterday using the Dylusion paints and making marks with the end of a paintbrush, bottle tops and an old credit card.

I took a while to find the right image as I didn't want to cover too much of it up and I also didn't want to stamp onto tissue, so I eventually settled on this PA Mini and a couple of words.

Like I said it's a deep edged canvas, so here are the edges.

Over at FSC they have a new theme of people or person, so I am hoping my head counts for a person but not sure if you have to include a body or not. I'm sure someone will let me know!!!

And the Love to Create challenge theme this week is mixed media.

Ink Splodge

Another double journal spread using the Dylusions paint, lime, grape and teal. Andy Skinner and Dylusion stencils, Ellen Vargo (PA) and Finn stamps and the fab ink splodge which was die cut and sent to me by Lesley, I just had to use it.

Eye, Eye

Another journal page using the lush Dylusion paints.

Party, Party - You're All Invited

It's a sad time over at Artful Times as this is their last challenge ever, so being as I was a former founder, I felt it only right to say goodbye and party along with them.

So I am inviting you all to party and play along with this last challenge.

Old Favourites

Over at FSC they have a theme of old favourites, so I decided to see how many I could use. The page on the right started off as a pan pastel page just to wipe off the excess from the sponges. So I did the same to the left page and gave them both a coat of diluted transparent yellow oxide.

I added lots of layers, including stencilling, stamping, more transparent and acrylic paints and tissue tape until I was happy with the background. Then I added my favourite DW stamp, lonely girl.

Close up of the stamping using PA minis, a couple of different scripts and the splatter and also a couple of the DW larger scribble script stamps, together with the TH idea-ology tissue tape.

DecoArt media paints, watered down quin gold, quin burnt orange, cobalt teal hue, over tissue tape, stamping and black gesso through a stencil.

Tag with a TH stamped quote which again is an old favourite, especially as it's on wood!!

Right page

Left page

Scribbley Script Page

I drew round the stencil, coloured the page in black and white and shades of in the chalky finish paint in colour bands starting darkest first. Placed the negative of the stencil back on and painted the middle piece with white tinting base and went over it with a coat of everlasting chalky paint. When dry stamped with black versafine ink. Put the stencil back on and stamped the same Dina Wakley script in the black and everlasting paint.

Close up of the black and white stamped paint using the Dina Wakley script stamp.

Dina Wakley star script image stamped in black versa fine ink.

Close up of the stenciled image and stamped text.

The bands of paint colours and finally I added some drops of black and white paint flicked with the media mister sprays.

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Oriental Journal Page

Added some oriental newsprint, some washi tape and some gesso to the page. Once dry coloured it with yellow submarine, tango and blood orange freso paints, love these because all the colours are translucent so you can still see the print and washi underneath. 

Stamped the main images onto tissue paper, cut them out and used DecoArt ultra matte varnish to adhere them to the page, love this as it not only acts as a glue but has no shimmer whatsoever, it's perfectly matte.  

The other stamping is done with black gesso which has given a lovely crisp black image.

After taking the photo I though that the main images looked lost on the page, so out came the black sharpie pen.

Close up of the image outlined with the sharpie pen

Another close up of the image

And the dragon, love how this has come out. Orange flicker DecoArt metallic lustre was rubbed over the gesso'd parts to hi-light the texture, you can just see the shimmer to the right here.

And one of my favourite images of all time by Lynne Perrella.