I have been adding texture to this canvas piece for awhile now...every time I used some stucco and gesso with stencil mask I would use up the extra onto this canvas.
I created the dress form for another project that I haven't finished so the inspiration for the background colors came from the dress form.
Dress form I white washed with gesso, grunge it up with Distress Ink Brushed Corduroy with water.
Then started dripping Tattered Angels glimmer mist down the sides of the dress form
and letting it run down and around the body.
Stamped the dress form with a few 7gpysies stamps with archival black ink.
You can just keep adding layers of mist, ink!!
Oh don't forget to do glimmer splats...
I learned this techqinue from Marion Smith a few years back on grunging a dress form.
I knew I wanted to create some paper cone wing shape wreath..
Cut up an olde scrabble game pages into 2x2 squares
and began to roll into a cone shape, glued down
and tucked behind the dress form.
White washed the cones with a few little sprays of glimmer mist to match the background
and more splats!!
Oh adding a chain with dangles with a Petaloo Color Me Flower..
with glimmer mist and stamping
creates adorable touch.
close up of the stamping
Oh I love how the stamping shows up on the Petaloo flower!!!
Finial touch was adding a Art-i-Cake headpin to the top of
dress form...
Love the texture of the canvas background! I encourage you to grab some Tattered Angels Glimmer mist, paints and start playing....you never know where the art piece will lead you.
Last week I shared with you a card I created using the Tattered Angels' Naturally Aged Paint System Bare Metal Tarnished Silver. Today I would like to share a second project that I created using the other pieces created in my sample video.
The background of the tag was embossed with a Cuttlebug - Clockworks embossing jacket after the card stock was dry. As you can see the card stock looks like embossed metal. Below is a sample of the dry paper before it was embossed and die cut into a tag. I really wanted you to see how much texture and shine these mediums give your projects. Bonus - it is just card stock, not metal. This means it is light weight enough to be mailed, making it perfect for cards. Also, it can be easily die cut, punched, embossed, or cut with your electronic cutters.
I used the 7Gypsies Paddington Stamp with Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink to give the appearance of dripping oil. Then I covered over those splotches with Glimmer Mist, Almost Black, to give a little shine to the oil. The sentiment was created in Photoshop CS6 using the Bookman Old Style Font, and attached to the tag with a 7 Gypsies Mini Paper Clip - SIDE NOTE: LOVE THESE NEED CASES OF THEM - they come in several different colors, and are so tiny and cute.
I also cut a Sizzix Primitive Heart from chipboard after covering it with 7 Gypsies Paper tape from the Lille Collection. I love the contrast of the red against the sea of metallic colors. The heart was edged with a silver pigment ink pad from Color Box to make it looked finished. The 7 Gypsies Hardware - Industrial Gears were the perfect touch to bring my clockworks background to the foreground. I found a scrap of DCWV Tattered Time paper and was able to cut the clock face to add to the bottom.
As a reference here is the video I shared last week on how I created the background effect with the Tattered Angels Paint System.
I love how the finished tag came out. It would be perfect on the face of a masculine card, or as an embellishment on a scrapbook page. Have you tried any of the Paint Systems yet? If so, please post them on Facebook and be sure to tag me in the post. I would love to see your creations.
This week has been so fun, I've been trying out some new products and getting my fingers stained with inks. Today I wanted to share with you one of the cards that I made using the Tattered Angels' Naturally Aged Paint System Bare Metal Tarnished Silver. This paint system adds so much texture and shine to your dull card stock, that you have to touch it to see if it is metal.
Canvas Corp Mini Red Clothes Pins, 7 Gypsies Washi Tapes, Tattered Angels Naturally Aged Paint System Bare Metal Tarnished Silver. Other: Nesting Labels Punches EK Success and Stamping Up, Studio G Make A Wish Stamp, Ranger: Archival Ink Jet Black, Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Texture Fade Patchwork, Distress Ink Pumice Stone.
For my card base I used a Tim Holtz Alterations Texture Fade Patchwork on the bare card stock, then added my paint mediums. I love how the paints bring out the texture from the embossing and make this look like embossed metal.
I have a few videos demonstrating how this card was made.
The first is a step by step for the paint system
This video shows how I made the card
Thanks for stopping in today, I hope you have a great weekend. If you are using these paint systems, I would love to see your creations, please share them with me on Facebook.
Inspiration can come from many places. Whether it be a walk in the park with your little one, a beautiful invitation you receive in the mail, or an inspired pin on your mood board....(Hello Pinterest).
And then there are those times when you come across a beautifully designed piece of patterned paper and it's like......Wow. Hello gorgeous!!!
That is what I thought when I saw the background paper I used for this card. I just knew it was calling me to craft.
Both the background paper and the frame are from Marion Smith's new printable Vintage Telegram. I went with lots of die cuts this time...My description in the sidebar does say "Die Cuts Diva" so I should live up to that name right?!
The Deets
Download and print out your gorgeous vintage telegram printables
Trim white card stock down to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 standard A2 sized card base.
Trim the Suite printable patterned paper to A2 size.
Punch photo corners from black card stock and adhere to Suite patterned paper.
Die cut Hawaiian shores card stock using the "Turning a New Leaf" die and adhere to background
Die cut the Dreamy printable patterned paper using the "Simply Jane" frame die.
Cover a piece of scrap paper with washi tape and adhere to frame
Punch the a leftover scrap of the Dreamy printable patterned paper and adhere to background.
Die cut American Crafts POW glitter paper using the "Signature Series: Dress Form" die and adhere to washi tape using super sticky adhesive.
Adhere frame to background
Punch butterflies from AC Pow glitter paper and adhere to background.
Embellish with enamel dots and a Martha Stewart label stamped with your sentiment
And there you have it. The die cutting took a little planning but once your rolling in inspiration it just flows. Make sure you hop on over to MarionSmithDesigns.com to pick up this kit and all the goodies that come along with it and get crafting. Make sure you show is your crafts in our Artsy Addicts Facebook group.
Speaking of Pinterest have you notice the newest feature installed on the blog??? You can now easily pin our crafty photos.
Hover over the photo with your mouse and you will see a red Pinterest button appear in the upper right hand corner.
Click on the red button. The title of the blog post will appear in the description box and the picture will automatically hyperlink right back to the Artsy Addicts blog.
Select your board and press "Pin It"
Cool right. Now I don't proclaim to be a super efficient high tech person but I did manage to install this on the blog. If you run into any issues with this feature please contact me on Facebook.
I have been playing with Marion's new Vintage Telegram printables and wow they are so fun and beautiful designs to create with. So last night I wasn't in a creative mood (tired or creative block) I had started to create a card wasn't feeling it tossed it aside to revisit at another time. Have you ever done that? I have to many times...hehe
I was ready to give up then I grabbed my folder of the printables and while I was flipping through the folder the black and white prints just jumped out at me. About 1 hour later whooola this little gem of a card was born, and I love it so not my colors (yes no pink)!!
Card size is 4 1/4 x 6
Distressed all the edges of papers and inked in black soot distress ink.
Used Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix dies (Distressed Doily and Gadget Gears).
Tissue tape from Prima Romance Novel line, gave a great boarder look to the edge of doily cutout.
I used Melt Art Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel in Platinum
to the gears to give depth and texture to the card.
Steps:
1. die cut out gears with chipboard
2. paint the chipboard gears black
3. press the chipboard gear pieces into VersaMark Ink
4. shake on embossing enamel and heat set.
5. to take shinny finish away-I used sand paper to rough the enamel up...
Close up of flowers ohhh I love how the Graphite glimmer mist just shines!
It's cool how you can still see some of the before color peaking out in places.
Grab you glimmer and mist away!
I didn't have any black flowers so I went digging into my box of flowers and said perfect time to play with some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist
A mini album needs a keepsake box to sit in...while shopping at my local dollar store I found this box and knew right off that I was going to alter it with Marion's new Vintage Telegram printables. I am thrilled with the way it came out so shabby vintage and wow I love pink. Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy reading and gazing at all the photos there is alot but I wanted to make sure you could see every bit of this adorable box and how beautiful the printables are.
The box measures roughly 9x6.5, I had to print out two of each design I used. Which wasn't bad at all and with the scraps I fuzzy cut out images to pop up and give the box some depth.
My daughter found some dollar store frames that were green I painted them white, sprayed patina glimmer mist added cream paint, sanded sprayer tattered leather glimmer mist. Then dry brushed on gesso, sanded a little more and I love how it came out.
I distressed all the edges of the papers and cut a small piece of paper and glued it to the under side of the cover piece of paper to be able to roll the top layer back with having the under piece showing added some gems. This is a fun and creative way to showcase your papers!
Seam binding colored with glimmer mist!!
To give depth I glued a piece of chipboard under the cut outs to pop them up out of the frame. I really like to give height to my creations.
I tucked in tiny flowers and a wood piece along with some of the cut outs from the printables.
I sprayed patina glimmer mist on the eggs and added Stickles to the flowers.
The butterfly is cut out from one of the printable pages!!
This is my fav!!
Handmade stick pin from my stash, every projects needs a paper doily!
I love the little crystal gems peaking out here and there...
These printable pages Marion design are distressed beautifully!
Yes indeed I enjoyed a little mixed media canvas play this weekend, and can I say it's was really fun to just create with no direction, just play. I used scraps that was laying around my work table, with having bags of extra little pieces comes in handy when you are doing a mixed media canvas. Save your little bits.
This little canvas started out with a technique from watching Miranda on YouTube, using hot glue to draw a design and then glue tissue paper over the designs.
I was also inspired by watching Marion Smith videos on coloring with glimmer mist.
I challenge you to get inspired and grab some glimmer and create away.
I put a dab of gesso on my finger
to paint over the raised areas to create depth and help it stand out.
Grabbed some chipboard and cut out some of my favorite die cuts.
Sprayed with differnet kinds of glimmer mist to add layers of color.
Got to love the glimmer!!
Die cut out the wings ran through an embossing folder.
Painted with black paint added some crackle paint (let dry).
Painted a thick coat of white paint or I used gesso.
And watch the cracks appear it is a really cool affect.
I added little touches on the canvas with cheese cloth.
Using glimmer mist to achieve the color tones I wanted to use.
Dry the cheese cloth and cut or pull apart and add to canvas.
Die cut paper flowers, inked edges and color with glimmer mist.
Now when I finished the canvas at first the flowers where showing up on camera with a green coloring. Which I did love reminded me of a patina look, but I wasn't really feeling it.
So I was BRAVE and I mean brave I was shaking in my boots when I decided to white wash the flowers. I was so excited when it turned out pretty cool.
At last it is finished.
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Have you wanted to try creating a mixed media canvas?
What is stopping you?
Go for it and give it a try you will be so happy you did.
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