52 Week Mini Art Card/Tag Challenge
Another month and another challenge prompt from Lavinia Stamps, where you have a chance of winning £40 of vouchers to spend on their site.
For May 2019 the prompt is "Make It Bright" - so I did!
I used a selection of Distress Oxides for the background: Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, Carved Pumpkin, Picked Raspberry and Mermaid Lagoon.
Everything was stamped in various shades of Versafine Clair Ink: Nocturne, Morning Mist, Tulip Red and Glamorous.
I stamped by stamping the crow "Drake" then added the "Star Burst" for Drake to stand on. I added the trailing "Willow" and "Wild Vines". To finish, I added touches of white highlight areas with a Signo Pen and some colour to the Star Burst using Sakura Gelly Roll pens.
I usually have a whole stash of tag backgrounds that I can draw from, but I noticed the stock is very depleted. Nothing was on TV last night that I was interested in, so I had a play with some spray inks. I've used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray (for the more dull coloured tags). For the brighter tags I have used the Dylusions Ink Spray. These should keep me going for a little while.
I've just randomly sprayed the colours onto the tags with no plan of how they will be used in future.
I also need to make more backgrounds for cards, which I find takes more time, so I may crack on with those this afternoon.
Have a good Tuesday. Sam x
I realised a couple of weeks ago, that although I have a lot of different crafting materials, including water colour pencils, that I didn't actually have any water colour paints. Having looked around and thought about the colours that I like to use, I decided to treat myself and purchase the Prima Water Colour Confections Pan Set in the "Tropical" colour scheme.
Each little square of colour comes celo wrapped and has a paper label detailing the number and colour name of each pan.
There is a small metal clip at the top of each pan to keep them into position too.
Also in the tin is a card with a grid and numbers within. I think they missed a trick by not printing the name of the pan against the number, so I've jotted it down, that way if I need to replace any in the future, I know the name I need to purchase.
I spritzed the pans with water and brushed some into the boxes to remind me of the shades and strength of colour at their darkest.
I'm really looking forward to having a play with these later in the week. I'll keep you posted with how I get on with them. Sam x
Roaming around the internet, as one does, I came across a little video By Birgit Koopsen which inspired me to have a go at the technique myself. This is the video that I watched: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=334061483970900
I actually have a stash of Pan Pastels that have not seen the light of day for some time, so when I saw that I could use them to create a background, I had to give it a go.
It's a straight forward process of applying Panpastels to your plate through stencils then applying paint (I used a cheap acrylic) and a brayer across the surface.
The double image above is the result of the first (on the left) and the second pull (on the right) from the gelli plate. I now know to use less paint with the brayer - crafting is always a learning curve.
The top image is where I have added shades of ink to cover the white/missed areas.
The prompt for Week 18 is 'Just One Stamp".
This prompt sounds really easy, but actually I found as soon as there is a restriction on using stamps I found I wanted to use lots of them.
The background of the tag was created using Colorbox Inks brayered onto a Gelli plate and then speckled with Brusho. Once dry, I used a Tim Holtz Distress Ink in the shade of "Peacock Feathers" through a Stampers Anonymous stencil (THS003 Rays).
I stamped the Visible Image bird (part of the "Life Is Beautiful" stamp set) using Versafine Clair "Nocturne" shade of ink. I inked the edges of the tag and then mounted it onto black card. Finally, I added some Green Stickles glitter to replicate the sheen that can cometimes be seen on birds with dark feathers.
It's time for another birthday card, this time using die cuts.
I started off using a base of Distress Oxide Sprays in two shades: Cracked Pistachio and Mermaid Lagoon.
Over the top of that I layered a Funky Fossil stencil called "Leafy Mandala" and used Distress Ink in the shade of "Pine Needle" through the stencil.
Using two set of Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits dies called "Wild Flower Stems" 1 & 2, I die cut the flowers using my Sizzix Big Shot. I then coloured them using Distress inks and a blending tool. I glued the coloured die cuts into postion and then stamped the sentiment in Versafine Clair ink in the shade of "Monarch". The sentiment was part of a free stamp set that came with a magazine.
This was a nice quick make card for a teenage boy - I always struggle with making male cards, but this could actually be for anybody.
I used a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder through my Big Shot machine to achieve the textured word background.
Using Versafine Clair Ink in the shade of "Blue Belle" I stamped the sentiment using two clear stamp sets from Spellbinders STP-008 and STP-002. I mounted the sentiment on foam pads to give more of a 3D look.
