At the Beach

Another couple of Atc's made for a swap, the theme for them is At the Beach.

I mixed DecoArt texture sand paste and ultra matte varnish together and applied along the bottom of the atc to create sand. Once dry I coloured it with titan buff, translucent yellow iron-oxide and yellow oxide. For the sky I watered down cerulean blue. The clothes were painted in quinacridone magenta and the flesh, a mix of translucent white, quinacridone burnt orange and magenta.

This is a paper bag studio stamp and it was inked with salty ocean and lemonade and mustard seed distress inks and stamped onto an atc. The image was coloured with watered down DecoArt quinacridone magenta.

Leandra Inspired Tags

Another of the techniques on the scopes Leandra demo'd was two corners and the middle with two colours. I first learnt this with Sue at Paper Paradise, but I think Sue got it from Leandra!! I gave this tag quit a few white washes to fade everything into the background.

I was going to use different colours but I still had loads left on my craft mat, so did the same again. After I'd stamped in the background I knocked it back with the white, but wanted it darker than the first tag so went back in with the colours.

After my first layer of paint I stamped an Ellen Vargo criss cross stamp in blue all over the tag. After about six layers you can still just about see the lines, top left half way down. I also did the stencil bumping on the right hand side.

I guestimated where abouts the face was going to go and added some off white, another of Leandras traits. This is a Paper Bag Studio image stamped in black stazon.

So for both tags I have used exactly the same colours yet they have turned out so different, due to all the different layers.

I think you can still watch the Periscopes as they are listed on 'katch.me'. Just search for PaperArtsy or click here.

Country View Crafts have a theme of making your own backgrounds.

Bumped Heart

Over at PaperArtsy Leandrea has been periscoping all week and showing us peeks of the new products, but along with these she has been sharing techniques, all of which she's shared previously, but it was great to have a re-cap.

She reminded us of the stencil bump technique, it's so easy and looks so effective.

White washes to build up the layers and move things into the background, stamping and stencilling.

I used a Paper Bag Studio stamp for my main image, stamped in purple stazon.

PaperArtsy also have a theme of hearts this week.

Brushos, Bondaweb & Vilene

Having an odd piece of vilene, I decided to test it with brusho and this is the result.

As you can see from the right one, I tried to stamp with bleach but nothing really happened, so I decided to go with a couple of solid stamps but detailed ones still stamped well on it too. 

Right is the vilene with an iron on lining and left is the result of pressing on top after the brusho has been added.

Again the ink really sunk into the material (now switched to the left side) and right, hexagons stamped in bleach to remove the colour.

Brushos and Bondaweb

The pieces of card were covered with bondaweb and brushos added. Top left brushos added then spritzed, bottom left card spritzed and brushos added and drippage, right card spritzed, brushos added and sandwiched with another piece of card to create different effects.

Stamped images have been added using black versa fine ink.

Love how the colours show through the creases in the trousers.

This one came out pretty cool too using blue and black inks to stamp with.

A Play with Tags

I'd been playing with brushos, bondaweb, bleach and straws to make different backgrounds. Here are a few I wanted to share.

The two on the right were created using the TH distress marker spritzer tool to blow the ink.

And this is what I did with them, stamped in bleach and black versa fine ink.

Purple and turquoise brusho on the tags.

Stamping with TH and Paper Bag Studio images, colour removed from the eye with bleach.

Love how the bleach showed on some of the purple splodges. Went backin with the bleach and removed the colour off the face and hands.

Another couple of background mop ups with the brusho.

The left is a tag I painted with silks last weekend, but I wanted to find out how they stamped on, and they are fabulous.  Other 2 are brusho and bleach backgrounds.

And again I went back in and took some colour from her eyes and legs.

And finally for this post, the background for the tags middle and left are created from the excess paint from the deli papers and simply stamped with LP & TH images. Tag on the right is some sort of bondaweb with a fabric texture as I painted brusho onto it and ironed it onto a tag. The ink looks dull as it soaked into the fabric.

This is the tag once it was ironed on.

And I'm sure you'll be pleased to know, that's it for today.

Up for a Challenge

Emma challenged us to make anything but a tag using either all or a combination of the above colour pallet.  We were also allowed to use, black and/or white and had to incorporate a flower - yikes!!

So this is what I made.  I painted the background with sage fresco paint. I swiped chocolate pudding through a circles stencil and bumped it with elephant. I stamped the script in olive green stazon. Painted the mini frame with elephant and chocolate pudding and stamped a smaller script in black stazon.  

The Paper Bag Studio image was stamped onto white card in timber brown stazon as well as the words, and to incorporate the caramel colour, I used a flower.

White, Metal & Transport

This week on the DragonsDream TIO blog they have a combination of white, metal and transport.  I really find white difficult and these tags weren't any different.  Above I stamped the TH car in black stazon, masked it off and stamped the map in the background swiping the ink over the stamp.  I added some strips of sticky metal foil after running them through a texture fade, but didn't like it so started to pull it off, some of it stayed stuck so I left it!!  I added a metal corner top left.

Then for my sins, I decided to have another go.  This time I decided on feet as my transport.  I stamped the Paperbag image and TH quote in timber brown stazon and went round the edge in walnut stain distress ink.  I found a couple of appropriate chit chat stickers and outlined them with the ginger Adirondack pen.  I attached a bulb pin with a couple of metal feet charms to the fibres.

Butterflies

Over at the PaperPlay forum, Hazel has chosen the theme of butterflies for our June Atc swap.  Having seeing T!m's fab tag for June I decided to adapt his technique with the distress pens and water brush by colouring the butterflies and backgrounds.  

The PaperBag image on the orange one is stamped onto acetate and sandwiched between two atc's with a window cut out the top one.  It looked a bit plain so I did a bit of doodling with the black pen!!

Close up of the tarnished brass metallic stain.

My mate, Kate has just started a new challenge blog over at The Hobby House and the first theme is anything goes.  So I would like to support her by entering my atc's.

Cracks and Flourishes

I used pewter on the bottom as per Leandra's last comment on my blog, as I agree with her that the metallic paint isn't thick enough to cover the crackle glaze and make it crack.  So I switched them around and did the pewter on the bottom but I didn't want the blue as dark as the baltic blue but Suzz had said that she had used the inky pool and it didn't crack too well either.  So again going with what Leandra suggested, I mixed a drip of baltic blue with lots of snowflake to make a lighter baltic blue!! It worked out prefect.  I sanded it back and honestly you can't believe how smooth a surface it leaves.  Then I took my PaperBag Studios stamp and my PA flourish from the Squiggly Ink, swirls and curls #6 plate, as over at this weeks Fun with Atc's they have a theme of flourishes.  I stamped them in black stazon.  I placed mini black gems on the end of each swirl.

For full explanation of the technique check out the PaperArtsy blog here.