Have you visited the freshly re-opened Picture This! challenge blog yet?
We have a mood board challenge going on – beautiful, bright colour combos.
Here is my interpretation of the board:
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Tag: scrapiniec
Forever | canvas
Sunday – Funday. I decided to enter a challenge that is so completely out of my comfort zone. Mixed Media Warriors July challenge is all about creating on reversed canvas.
I grabbed an old canvas I had stashed away from the time I claimed the office and changed it into my studio/craft room, a jar of white gesso and set off to work. After covering the original design of the canvas, I used texture paste, stencils, chipboards and mists to create the base for the embellishments. Floral bristle and flowers added dimension; grit, mica flakes and splatters of white acrylic ink added the finishing touches.
Here are close-ups of the finished project. Fingers crossed you like it.
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Greens & blues – tags v2 | ScrapAfrica
If you read my previous post, you will know that I didn’t really like the Greens & blues – tags v1 | ScrapAfrica I made for the April mood board challenge from Scrap Africa.
After some time of battling with myself, I went back to the studio and too a fresh set of tags. This time it went so much better! The chalk mists from 13arts created a lovely base for white texture (I used Tim Holtz doily stencil) and the embellishments seemed to so effortlessly match…the twine, chipboards and florals; a bit of grit and glitter on top and here we go…
Here’s the result…I am happier now.
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Remember | Cold Weather | 7Dots Studio challenge
Today’s page is my entry into the December-January challenge at 7 Dots Studio; the challenge is called ‘Cold Weather’ and that is the only direction you are given here (apart from incorporating products from their range in you work, of course).
As a base, I used Rising of the Sun paper from the Love Is In The Air collection, which I covered with a layer of white gesso to give it a frosty, washed-out look. With texture paste and a stencil, I added star designs all over the background. I used 3 different blue mists as well as prussian blue Brusho powder and water mister to create layers of colour, on which I added another layer of textured stars and white and blue splatters. Once that dried, I started assembling the photo and embellishments. Using 3D foam squares for dimension, I mounted the photo on top of a chipboard frame and attached in desired position on the page. To decorate, I used floral bristle, paper flowers, chipboards and metal embellishments. As final touches, I added white mica flakes and white glitter as well as Snowflake paste all over the page to create snow-like effect.
Some close-ups here…
See you again soon.
E
Set of Christmassy-ish cards
I’ve been trying to catch up on my snail-mail this week and, as apologies for the long wait most of my penpals had to endure, I decided to make each of them a kind-of-Christmassy card (yes, I did write 3 letters today as well as made the cards – it was quite a task but I managed to achieve it).
As a base, I used watercolour paper cut-offs from my previous project, which I sprayed with different mists and sprinkled with Brusho powders. I drew a frame with a black Sharpie and added texture using Snowflake Paste from Finnabair.
On top, I assembled flowers, cones, floral bristle from 13arts and chipboards from scrapiniec.net.
Here are close-ups of each of the cards.
I attached the finished pieces on black cards using sticky 3D foam.
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bits and bobs | canvas
Today, I wanted to show you the canvas I made using a variety of metal embellishments, 2 old brushes and two mica powders.
The canvas I used has been recycled from a winter project that I mad some time ago but didn’t really like. I removed the old elements as much as I could and then covered the remains with two layers of black gesso from 13arts.
The canvas itself had texture to it due to not all of the remains of the previous project having been removed. I started building up the layers and textures by attaching two brushes and then filling in the space with a variety of metal embellishments, adhesive pearls and mini pegs; once the adhesive dried, I painted everything with black gesso. In the spaces that still looked ‘naked’ I added microbeads, mica flakes and glitter.
I mixed two colours of mica powder (green and purple) with water in small spray bottles and sprayed them on the canvas. I repeated the spraying 3 times to ensure coverage.
Here are some close ups of the canvas.
And this is the final project.
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ScrapAfrica challenge no65 | mood board
This week I have made a page inspired by the blue/winter mood board in the ScrapAfrica challenge no65. I love the delicate blues and wintery feel about it so I used a very old photo of a 6-year-old me sledging down a snowy slope. Good old days…
As always, I created loads of layers of texture and colour using Snowflake texture paste from Finnabair and blue mists from 13arts. I used doilies, tissue paper and gift tag as background for the photo and snow flake chipboards which I painted white using SPLASH! ink from 13arts. As a finishing touch I sprinkled the white ink all over the page and attached little white pearl beads.
I hope you like the final creation.
Thank you for visiting and see you soon!
