Notebooks - Unzipped

Before we start, I need to tell you this is a very long post - mostly pictures - So, let's get on with it then. I bought some of these A6 notebooks from the Range as it's just opened in our town.

Gave the backs a thin coat of white DecoArt media modelling paste and stamped into it.

Close up some the stamping.

And another one.

Once thoroughly dry (I left them over night), I gave them all a coat of paynes grey media paint.

Close up after the layer of paint had been applied.

And another of the back covers.

I added stenciling and modeling paste onto this cover and painted with DecoArts Americana chalky paint, the colour is treasure.

I added script tissue paper to this cover and painted the triangle with transparent yellow iron oxide.

More stencilling with modelling paste and white crackle paint, texture sand paste was added and coloured with a wash of quinacridone violet.

I edged this cover in DecoArt black gesso. I love this stuff, it's one of my fave products of the range.

Emma kindly sent me some micro beads in a variety of colours, so I covered the triangle with a thick layer of DecoArt liquid glass and sprinkled four colours of beads in and left it over night to dry. It will dry clear.

I added some spellbinder cogs and the zipper die from Die-Namics which I had to order from the states. Using the chalky paints I painted everything, colours are rustic, and timeless, the silver is from the DecoArt media paint range.

I tore up some tissue paper and applied it over the stencilling using a wash of ultra media matte varnish and water, it makes a great glue!! Once dry gave it a washed out coat of cobalt teal media paint and the zip is phthalo blue and the silver again.

These are the five that I ended up with.

In more detail. The heart is stencilled in white crackle paint and coloured with red gelato. Spell binders cogs and the zipper die added. Cover given several coats of soft touch varnish for a soft spongy finish.

Dry brushed the cover with white gesso and also used silver metallic lustre. As you can see, the liquid glass has dried clear just leaving the micro beads visible. 

I rubbed champagne ice metallic lustre over the front cover to bring out the stencilled parts.

Modelling paste was used on the bottom of this cover and then silver spark metallic lustre was applied over the top. The background tissue paper is coloured with watered down quinacridone burnt orange and the zip in heritage chalky matte paint. Texture sand paste was applied in the triangle and swooshed over with the silver lustre. 

All the covers have been given a few coats of the soft varnish. The zip was painted with rustic chalky finish paint.

These are the metallic lustres, they are really soft and creamy and extremely easy to apply to any textured surface. There is only one problem with it, because it is so shiny, it's really hard to photograph!

These are the back covers of all the books.

For this one I firstly used the black shimmer, let it dry, which doesn't take long, then added some silver spark.

This is a close up. Hope you can get an idea of the shimmer.

And this one is the black shimmer and then the orange flicker.

It probably looks gold, but in real life, it really is orange!!!

DecoArts products were used on these projects.

Jewel in the Crown

I took a size #10 tag, randomly brayered gesso over it, once dry brayered watered down gold green, cerulean blue and finally viridian, which is a gorgeous dark green.

I added black modelling paste through a stencil, love this stuff and it's so flexible when it dries.

Stamped a TH face onto a piece of thickish tissue paper and coloured with very, very watered down quinacridone violet.

Glued the face to the tag and using a lid I stamped black and white circles randomly and added a bit of script in black versa fine ink to bring it all together.

And finally gave her a crown using a chipboard die cut, which I'd used English red oxide and carbon black antiquing cream on with a few layers of ultra matte medium to seal each layer of the cream. And lastly added the gem.

All media products are by DecoArt.

Our Creative Corner have a tic tac toe challenge and I've gone with the middle horizontal line - paint - stamps - stencil.

A Crackling in Paris

I painted an mdf plaque with new life chalky paint by DecoArt

Covered it in weathered wood and once dry gave it a coat of primitive from the same range.

And just look at the fab cracks, I haven't created cracks like this for ages.

Another close up of the fantastic cracks with the green showing through.

And this isn't what I had planned but I couldn't bare to cover too much up so I added some stamped and embossed die cuts which Lin very kindly sent to me recently.

I may try another one soon and do what I originally intended to do with it - hehehe!!

All mediums are by DecoArt.

Rustic Elements

Preped some chipboard die cuts using gesso, texture sand paste and matte medium.

Then I chose some pieces to add to my base of foam board, masking tape, cotton scrim and gesso. 

I painted some of the pieces with paynes grey.

Sprayed the foam board with turquoise shimmer media mister and added transparent yellow iron oxide media paint.

And this is the finished piece which eventually took on a blue / green tone.

A few close ups, bottom left hand corner.

The silver washers painted in gesso, paynes grey and quinacridone gold.

The lock and key made to look like rust.

And the top left corner, more rust effects and the cotton scrim through the foam board.

Cotton scrim under the frameworks die painted in ultramarine media paint.

Then I decided to add the PA words as I felt it needed a little something else at the top. When I looked back at my original layout, I forgot the heart at the top!

All products ie paints, misters and mediums are from the DecoArt media range.

Tick Tock

PA have a challenge theme of shiny stuff which you can see here. So I blinged up an MDF wooden tag using gems, metal, metallic lustre and metal embellishments.

I stencilled some white modelling paste through the TH honeycomb stencil and pounced some up the sides using the back of the spatula. Once dry I applied a coat of white gesso and then coloured with green gold media paint and went over the textured areas with phthalo green-blue.

Close up of the coloured texture.

I added brilliant turquoise metallic lustre over the texture for more bling.

I added metallic cog and clock embellishments and a tag and safety pin.

I switched the hat on the LP image with a clock and cog related one from Choc Baroque and coloured it with metallic silver and gold.

And finally I added a strip of fancy metal which I picked up last year at Version Scrap and added some gold coloured gemstones.

Tag & Atc Swap

A few of us have got together to do a tag and atc swap, 2 of each and the theme was faces. I cut the pieces from heavy weight white card and randomly added colours from the media paint range. I took titan buff, napthol red and dioxazine purple and stencilled with them. I stamped some script in black versa fine.

Emma very kindly bought me the Dina Wakley set of ladies faces called All the Gals, so I decided to use them for this project.

I stamped the images onto white paper, cut them out and coloured them with gelatos. Once glued on, I outlined them in black smudgy black pencil and blended it in.

And edged in black pen and added fibres. I had to add the word to the right one as the pen slipped!

Altered Box Frame

I gave the wooden box a coat of gesso.

Randomly spread modelling paste around the outside edges and over the cross in the middle.

I mixed some texture sand paste with matte medium and coated the curved edges.

Once dry, I painted everything in paynes grey media paint.

The whole box was the painted with patina antiquing cream and then was rubbed back. A coat of matte medium was applied and allowed to dry. The outside flat edges were painted with white antiquing cream, and rubbed back and again a coat of matte medium was applied. Once dried everything was painted with watered down quinacridone gold.

Close up of the outside of the box.

I painted the inside of each little box in cobalt teal hue media paint.

Added pieces of script tissue paper and adhered with matte medium.

Painted the inside boxes with quinacridone burnt orange and then transparent yellow iron oxide.

Love how it turned out, just need to find something to put in it now.

All products are from DecoArt Media range.

Diva

Background is media paints and easy float. Black modelling paste put through a stencil for the image (love that stuff).

Used the carbon black mister spray to flick onto the background.

Stampotique letters are stamped in black versa fine and outlined in white posca pen.

White shimmer media mister was splashed onto the stencilled image and outlined in white posca pen.

Products by DecoArt black modelling paste, media paints, easy float, media misters.

Aquarius Star Sign

I look a 4" x 6" canvas board, gave it a coat of white gesso and masked half of it off diagonally.  I painted the top half in metallic silver and once thoroughly dried masked that off and painted the bottom in a mix of ultramarine blue and cerulean blue.

Then after a bit of research on Google, I found that I had relevant stencils to loosely replicate the Aquarius star sign and one of the traits is that they are born to teach, so I got my idea-ology letters and set about spelling it out.

All products are from the Decoart media range - gesso, media paints, black modelling paste.  If you pop over to Deb's site and join in with this months star sign, you could be in with a chance to win some Decoarts products - get over there and good luck.