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Yep, time for another challenge over at the EWV group...we switched to monthly for the summer as everyone is so busy . And, the theme for June, use blue and metal.
Here's my offering for the challenge:
The background started with a piece of substrate to which I applied gesso, then sprayed with Colorwash (gesso still wet!!), spritzed with water and let it run a bit...did some stamping on top:
I really like this effect, I think I'll be doing that one again. Remember...gesso and colorwash.
The blue parts are pretty obvious, I think, lol...the center of the flower is a Blossom Bucket piece designed by Ms. Wendy. They really add a lot to a piece.
The roof of the house, which is an Art Part, was covered with a mix of black and copper embossing paste.
The metal Ideaology pull is a great way to put a roof over the door. Speaking of, the door handle is a Maya Road stick pin, cut off and glued. I think it looks like one of the old glass knobs.
The DREAM was also metal, which I covered with black UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel). I sprinkled some gold and bronze UTEE on the black, which gives it a cool spotty look. Ok, mottled. That's the word I'm looking for.
The ruler is, well, not a ruler. lol. It's a piece of wood that I applied distress stains to...wild honey, rusty hinge and vintage photo, and used one of Wendy's stamps on. Looks like the real thing, doesn't it?
Whew, nothing like coming up with an idea half way thru the month. lol.
Thanks for stopping by!!
**EDITED*** This little beauty won the Top 3 (this week the Top 4) over at San Dee's and Amelie's...WHOOP!!!***
There's a challenge going on over at SanDee & Amelie's Steampunk Challenges blog...alter a playing card!
Here's what I came up with..
The base started out with a ten of clubs, you can still see a reference to it there in the corner...covered with embossed metal tape, and a little gold UTEE added. I actually remembered to take a pic...
Those flowers are actually stickers...yes...stickers from Jolee's. I added some gears to them, some metallic wax (Treasure Gold Spanish Topaz from Paper Artsy, I can see it will be a staple on my desk) and some metal arrows that I covered with bronze and gold UTEE. I did some shading around the flowers and gears with the Stabilo black pencil, they seemed to be fading into the background a bit. Maybe a tad busy, but I kinda like it. Viola!
Thanks for stopping by...hope you have a great holiday weekend, what's left of it! Don't forget, it's MEMORIAL Day! Big thanks to those who have and are serving our country!
A while back, I had won a set of three Paper Artsy paints on their blog, which you can find HERE. Sweet! As one of my choices, I chose the Crackle Glaze. Boy, was THAT a GREAT decision.
Well, I finally sat down and played with the paints a bit, which I now love. Their stamps are awesome too!
Back in the day, I used to do a lot of what they called "decorative painting", some called it "tole painting". Basically it was painting, shading, etc. with acrylic paints, usually using a pattern from a book. Some was done with free hand design. There was crackle paint available at that time, but it was a tedious process. Base coat, apply crackle medium, wait for it to dry, then apply a top coat of acrylic paint. Three step process, but, at the time, from what I remember, you couldn't speed up the drying process of the crackle medium, you had to let it dry naturally. Maybe I was wrong about that, if so, I wasted a lot of time back in the 80's and early 90's. lol.
The great thing about the Paper Artsy product is that you can use a heat gun on it. The moral of the story....it took me about five minutes to create this background....
Flippin' fantastic! I used an off white acrylic paint as the top coat, followed by some distress ink around the edges.
Now, to complete the tag, I remembered I had some Paper Artsy stamped images that my friend from Scotland, Alexandra, (I'm sorry, I can't find her blog address!!!) so graciously and patiently stamped for me. As it happens, they were done in a brown Archival ink, so I kept the monochromatic scheme going.
AND, as it happens, the theme at Simon Says Stamp and Show this week is INK..as in, what's your favorite color or type? Of course, that's easy for me...Distress Inks all the way, Baby! lol... I use those almost exclusively, and I'm rather partial to Vintage Photo, which is a lovely shade of brown...perfect for distressing and aging! (Although, the new Archival Ink colors are quite fetching, I must say!)
Ok, ok, on to the finished product...
Whoop! I used the Branch Tree Sizzix die and cut some of the branches off to give the bird a perch. I made the flower more dimensional by cutting out a petal here and there and gluing the remainder together. To add some dimension..I used a soft charcoal pencil around the bird, sentiment and leaves. Really makes those items pop.
So, there you have it, a new product to try, AND I entered a challenge! The first one in like, forever! lol
Have a great holiday weekend!
Yes, I found some time to make something for the above referenced challenge, which can be found HERE. It is basically using the new remnant rubs to create a resist on a background.
So, not having any of the aforementioned remnant rubs, I decided to try just regular rub ons. The ones I used were 7 Gypsies.
I also decided to make a card for a young man graduating from college, majoring in physics.
Here we go:
What? Steampunk, you say? lol....Hopefully this will appeal to a physics major. I thought the "Full Steam Ahead" was an appropriate sentiment. There are a couple of Tim Holtz stamps on the background, as well as Viva Las Vegas stamps, namely, the guy in the top hat, the gears, and the sentiment.
I didn't have any of the enameled tag thingies, either, so I improvised with some black chipboard run thru a bookplate die, and layers of white embossing powder, leaving some of the black edge of the chipboard showing, to give that chipped effect. Then, I ran some Coffee archival ink over it with my "trans dermal applicator" to give it that aged look.
Viola!
I rather like this tech, I think I'll be trying it again!
Thanks for stopping by!
Howdy all!
I recently completed a piece for a friend that incorporates a few of my favorite themes... Steampunk, hot air balloons, and the new stamp set Time Travelers.
Pics first, details later:
Background:
I started with a bunch of Ten Seconds Studio metal pieces that I had leftover from other projects, laid them out in the gears embossing folder, embossed, sanded and laid out on my substrate, adhered with Humungo killer tape. There's only three different colors in there, some real copper pieces.
Then I just started adding layers. The balloon is a technique that I'd been wanting to try, just never got around to. You know how that goes. It's just basically stamping the same image several times, cutting out, folding, and adhering them back to back. The balloon image is courtesy of Mr. Holtz, and the Time Travelers guy is Mr. Holtz designed by Brett Weldele. I mounted both on black cardstock just to give them a little extra outline.
Then, of course, one of my favorite parts, adding lots of gears! lol. I raised some up to give extra dimension, and some I used a Stabilo pencil around to shade and make them pop. Oh, and let's not forget my other favorite, a compass with a spinner! lol.
On the corners, I used some copper mesh attached with thumb tacks that look like rivets. I decided to leave the thumb tacks shiny, as I thought it gave a little contrast to the piece.
The frame was painted black, and then dry brushed with gold metallic paint, and a teal paint, to help pick up some of the blue metal in the background.
If you have questions about what I did, please ask! Thanks for stopping by, hope to have more later..like in the month of May? LOL....
Time flies! Yes, indeed!
Another catch up post for you today....
This was a shadowbox tag I made for an EWV Yahoo Group Challenge:
I basically cut a rectangle out of a standard tag, made some sides for the shadowbox using chipboard, and lots of tissue tape to adhere to the back of the tag. lol. The leaves were created using embossing paste and a Studio 490 stencil, and the bee and flower are Art Parts.
Up next is an ATC I created for another challenge, which turned into a swap on the group:
LOL.
Up next is some experimentation with embossing paste, and distress stains and inks, I still haven't determined how to finish it:
A tag for yet another challenge, which was to use distress embossing powder, which is the birdie:
Here's a double page journal spread, some bright colors for a change! Oh, the challenge was to use metallic embossing paste on an inked background, which allows the paste to pick up the colors underneath..really cool technique.
Ok, better start on the next post, so it's not quite so long between posts! lol...Thank you so much for stopping by...I appreciate it!
Well, I'm getting this posted in the nick of time...lol..
I decided to play along with the current Paper Artsy challenge, which is to create something inspired by Linda Cain, designer fantastico.
I created a journal page that started with water soluble pastels...although they're hardly recognizable at this point.
Another angle:
Unfortunately, I don't have any Paper Artsy stamps, (a situation I hope to remedy soon, lol) so I had to substitute some images from Mr. Holtz, otherwise, the rest is stenciling, painting, stamping with archival inks, and some Stabilo pencil. And the white Sharpie. Oh, one thing I will mention is that the negative portion of the scallops On the Edge Die cut was used for the, ah, scalloped edge
Better get this dog posted, so I'll keep it short! Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!
