Mixed Media playtime fun

Hello all, - hope you are having a good week!
I am still on my last two days of holidays and had some  fun playing with different stuff and experimenting really for another project. Here is the result:

I have no step out photos, but will give you a quick run down on my process. It all started with playing with some Bister powders in combination with Walnut Ink crystals by Tsukineko. I splattered them around on watercolour paper. sprayed with water, tipped and tilted and watched the stuff play and intermingle.

I was not too happy with the middle section, so covered it  with some gesso streaks, a few splatters and finally with torn strips of paper from the  Prima Time Traveller 6 x 6 collection, making sure that the white edges showed.

Next I die cut Mr Rainman (Tim Holtz for Sizzix) from the same collection, choosing a darker piece and then overstamping with white Snowflake Fresco Finish paint and an old script stamp.

Some words die cut from the same paper, using the Tim Thinlets Adventure die set.

Some back ground stamping with Black Stazon Ink

And finally mounting it on black card and then grey thicker card.

That's it, like I said, just a bit of experimenting and fun, but having fixed a little easel on the back, it will stand up and might just land up becoming a birthday card for a male friend.

Thanks for dropping by like always and have a great week!

Of Colour and Fabric and things....

Hello all and thanks for dropping in.

It's been a while since I did some more in my technique's journal, but today I am sharing another page.

It started with a size 8 manilla tag that I covered in cotton calico fabric. I then added some swirls with Ranger clear embossing paste through one of Tim's stencils to act as a resist for the colours.

Colour was added with Distress sprays, they turned a bit dark, I probably should have wetted the fabric first....

Next I stamped the Indigoblu blazing poppies stamp on thin paper fussy cut parts of it and coloured it with Distress ink (Fossilized Amber). I highlighted some of the small flowers with a white gel pen.

I stamped the same stamp again but this time just fussy cut the flowers and a couple of the leaves and gave them a slightly deeper tone in the centre for more depth. Before adhering them to the layer below I added a tiny bit of stained cheese cloth. I also stamped and coloured a butterfly, I have no idea any more who made that stamp, sorry. The background page was created with a mix of Decoart and Distress paints and stencilled with Archival inks

The final stage was to add another butterfly, this one is from the Tim Holtz butterfly duo that has its own embossing folder.

And here finally is the finished page in my journal

Well, that's it for today. Thanks for your visit like always and have a wonderful weekend!

Altered Ipad cover

Hello all and lovely to see you drop in here!
Today I want to share an altered cover I did for my mini Ipad.

A while back I purchased this rather ugly cover with a view to altering it, but then it got put aside until finally I got out my gesso and set out to alter it to my liking.
This is what it looked like (I just remembered to take a pickie before it got covered)...

So I gave it two thick coats of gesso and when dry added some Tim Holtz Crazing medium through a stencil, a trick I saw on Paula Cheney's blog.

I also added some normal texture paste and added some texture by patting it with a palette knife while still wet.

Here is a close up of the subtle crackle you get with the Crazing medium, love how that worked!

Next a first layer of colour was added with the help of the new Distress Crayons. I rubbed them in with my fingers and then blended with a fairly dry baby wipe. Another trick I learnt from Paula.

Now for the embellishments: I covered a piece of card with Tissue Wrap and when dry, die cut it with the Tim Holtz globe die, grunged it up a bit with some more Distress crayon and then covered it with the new Tim Holtz Distress Vintage collage medium.

I layered up some ephemera bits and pieces. Some were from the vellum ephemera pack and unfortunately started to crinkle over the texture below when I adhered them with gel medium.

I also added some stencilling with black Archival ink and some rub ons.

Even the closure tab got some rub ons on it, to make it fit in with the rest.

The back was kept much simpler. I just used part of the top layer of a paper serviette, adhered it with Collage medium and then blended it into the background with the crayons again. I tiny bit of background stamping with a text stamp still in an attempt to bring it all together.

Of course it is important to make sure the side gets covered too so it all hangs together

The inside was gessoed too but I left it undecorated as I did not want anything to dirty the screen of my Ipad. If you look carefully you can see me taking the picture mirrored in the glass lol.

I covered everything in a thin layer of the Vintage collage medium  and added some shadows here and there for more depth. Well, there you have it, I am quite pleased with how it turned out, certainly a lot better than the shiny pink plastic..... I rather enjoyed the whole process, so may decide to do my phone next.

Anyway, thank you for visiting like always and I hope you are having a good week.

xxx

Fairytale dream for Shimmerz

Hello all and hope April is treating you well so far...

Today I have a journal page to share, created for Shimmerz. Here is just a little corner of it:

Like usual, the rest can be seen on the Shimmerz blog of course.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for your visit like always,

Dimension for Mixed Media Monthly

Hello mixed media friends and happy April! Our theme for Mixed Media Monthly is Dimension this month. Our sponsor is Stampers Anonymous and our guest designer is the wonderful Wendy Vecchi!!

Below is the challenge graphic which we ask you to add to your post, incase you decide to play along.

Like always there are some super prizes to be won!

And here is the project I created for the challenge:

Dimension can be created in many different ways, and although my project perhaps is not all that dimensional, I hope you can see there are in fact quite a few dimensional elements. Let me quickly take you through my process:
I started with a long Prima Mixed Media tag that had been used to mop up inks from previous projects. I always love these kind of mop ups as a starting point, especially for tags.

I added some stamping with white acrylic paint and then cut some swirls with one of the dies in the Tim Holtz Mixed Media 2 set.

I also stamped the dragonfly from the Tim Holtz Classics 1 set in Jet black Archival ink. Here you see it against a white background, but I wanted to added some further dimension with colour, so I took a second tag and blended colours with Distress Inks roughly where I thought they would show through.

The two tags were adhered together and then I deepened the colours showing through with Faber Castell Big Brush pens.

I also added white around the dragon fly to create more dimension and make it pop.

I stamped and fussy cut a second dragonfly, coloured it with similar colours and added it to the one stamped on my tag, now the wings were dimensional.

Finally the tag was finished with some embellishments from my stash. A flower cluster, a metal embellishment, patina added with the help of paint and at the top the most dimensional metal flower I could find...

I arranged some of the bits that had been cut away from the swirls around it and finished it all with some dimensional letter stickers.

Well, that's it from me for today. Please do go over to the Mixed Media Challenge blog to get all the details of the challenge and to see the wonderful projects from my team mates, and hopefully you'll decide to play along. We would love to see you there!

Have a fabulous weekend and happy creating!!

Spring is in the Air for AVJ

Hello everyone, happy April with Spring well and truly in the air here in the Northern Hemisphere, and yes, that is the theme that we are having this month at A Vintage Journey, chosen by the lovely Sandy

I created a card for someone who has a Spring birthday and decided to take out my Tim Holtz Lady Rose stamp set for a play. I am sorry to say that I totally forgot to take step by step photos, so all I can do is show you a few close ups and explain more or less what I did.

I used a piece of Rangel speciality stamping paper and stamped one of the roses in Victorian Velvet Distress Ink and heat set it. I stamped it in several corners of my card and then inked around it with Tattered Rose and Bundled Sage Distress inks. I also did some further background text stamping in Hickory Smoke.

Next I did some crackle stamping in Library Green Archival Ink and then darkened the edges of my card with Peeled Paint DI.

The main rose stamp was stamped in Black Archival. I wished now I had chosen a lighter colour like Watering Can as it is too dark really, but hey ho, too late now. I coloured it with Inktense pencils and Distress Inks using a water brush to blend.

I found this little dove in my stash, I think it is a Kaiser Craft sticker, it seemed just the right size to fill in an empty space on the card and then I did some very subtle blending around it to add a bit of depth.

A couple of little punched butterflies, some twine and a little label, cut with the Sizzix/Tim Holtz tiny tabs and labels die and the word wish finishes it all off.

I matted it first of Kraft and then a white 7 x 7 card blank and it was done.

Well that's it from me for just now, I'll be back a bit later today with a project for Mixed Media Monthly, but meanwhile please do hop over to A Vintage Journey to see what my teamies have created, I promise you will not be disappointed!!