MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE

This month's Mixed Media Challenge is to use stamps.

This is my entry

You will need:

Small canvas....5 in.s x 7 ins.

Black gesso

Stamps from Sheena Douglass...Koi and Water Lillies from A Little Bit Oriental range

White Brilliance inkpad

Bronze Staz-On inkpad

Texture paste

Acrylic paints and brushes

Small shells or as used here paper clay shells

Matt and gloss varnish

1.  Mark a half inch border around the edge of the canvas with pencil.

2.  Paint black gesso inside the 'frame'. 

3.  Stamp the ripples with Bronze Staz-On ink and the fish with the White Brilliance ink.

 

 

 

4.  Paint the fish with acrylic paints. Optional...you can mold some texture paste on the fish's body before

     painting to make it stand out more. I used an orange stick to make the fish scales.I copied the colours

    that were on the stamp set pack.  

 

     

5. Apply texture paste to the frame area of the canvas and press the 'shells' into it.

6. Once dry, paint with black gesso.

7. Dry brush acrylic colour on to the frame...green for the main area and bronze on the shells.

8. Brush the whole canvas with matt varnish and then the fish, ripples and shells with gloss varnish. Or brush

    just the inside of the frame with gloss varnish...couldn't decide which.

 

MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE OCTOBER 2014

This month's Mixed Media Challenge is to use ribbon, twine or fibres.

This is my entry

A brief 'How to'

1.  Canvas board painted with white gesso and left to dry.

2.  Liquitex Acrylic ink (put in spray bottles) sprayed top and bottom. Board tilted so the colours ran down

     the board. Colours: Sap green and Cerulean Blue. While still wet water was flicked on to the board to

     add some texture. Dried.

3.  Leaves from my rubber stamp set Natural Elements (not on my website...contact for details) using 

     Brilliance Cosmic copper inkpad. Dried and then the canvas sprayed with Permajet Permafix to

     stop the ink running with following products.

4.  Masks used with B&Q Flexible Filler for the swirls and birds (Crafter's Workshop and Peerless 

     Designs).

5.  Matt Medium was used to stick the fibres, skeleton leaf and lace cloud to the board.

6.  When dry the canvas was sprayed again, this time with Moon Glow...Azure Sea Asters and Ponderosa

     Pine Olive.

7.  The edges of the board were darkened using Walnut Stain Distress ink and a fan brush.

8.  Fabric leaves were painted with white gesso and then Liqiuitex Rich Bronze and Bright Gold inks.

9.  The tree stencil from Sweet Poppy Stencils was used with Sparkle Mediums... Light Copper, Antique

     Bronze and Welsh Gold (Imagination Crafts). Sparkle medium was applied to the birds and swirls.
10. The windy swirls were made using a brush and water, blotted with kitchen towel.

11.Finally, the fabric and plastic leaves, sequin flowers and beads were glued to the board.

NEW AUTUMN OVERLAYS DIGIKIT

We have a new digikit...Autumn Overlays 1

This kit has 10 Autumnal Overlays, 5 colour backgrounds and instructions.

High quality jps at 300 dpi.

Cost just £1.50

Some samples created by placing an overlay over one of the colour backgrounds and then altering

 the Blend Mode.

MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE SEPT 2014

This month's Mixed Media Challenge is Colour...with a photo for inspiration

This is my entry

I started by spraying black card with water and then randomly dropping Bright Silver Liquitex acrylic ink
over it. Then drops of white Dylusions ink (as I had none of the Liquitex). Card dried.
I then mixed Magenta Liquitex ink with some Flexible Filler (B&Q) and then Cadmium Yellow ink with some more filler. These were then applied through a mask (Dahlia from Peerless Designs).
Then I mixed black ink with filler and applied through another mask from Peerless Designs at the top of the card. Left to dry.
I then applied more of the magenta and yellow using a crumpled piece of kitchen towel along the middle area.
Finally, the word Dahlia (using letters from CaroLines' Oriental Alphabet Die Sheet) was stamped with black Brilliance ink and embossed with a clear glitter embossing powder.

MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE AUGUST 2014

This month's Mixed Media Challenge is to use stencils and texture paste

This is my entry

This is the 3rd attempt!!!...a learning experience definitely!

Primed canvas board with white gesso.

Applied Dylusions sprays (London Blue, Fresh Lime, Dirty Martini and Melted Chocolate), making the inks run. Dried and then flicked with water and dried again.

Here's where the fun began! I wanted the texture paste (I used B&Q Flexlible Filler) to stay white when put over the Dylusions...but this didn't happen. So I tried Matt Medium to try and fix them, but that did terrible things to the colours and made them run!

Had to start again. Then I tried hairspray, then 3 coats of Windsor and Newton Satin varnish and then Matt medium over all that. The colour still leeched through.

Had to start again. In the meantime did a bit of research and found a spray to fix inkjet ink might work so ordered a couple of brands of that. One worked! Permafix (2 coats).

Progress.

Stencils used: Blossom and branches from Crafter's Workshop, Dandelion from Peerless Designs.

I then brushed in the waterfall with white acrylic paint and a fan brush.

Then I stamped various ferns and leaves using Brilliance ink. Should have used Staz-On.

Stamps used: from CaroLines Creative Stamps, Sheena Douglass and Kanban (now closed).

I did think to spray with the Permafix, but the ink hadn't dried properly, so the colour started to leech into the paste. I found drying the paste with a heat gun helped slow the leeching down.

At this point I decided I'd wasted too many canvas boards so would have to paint over the paste with something that would hide the colouring.

I used Cosmic Copper Brilliance ink, followed by a light brushing with Lightning Black.

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More texture paste mixed with green acrylic paint and a bit of the Copper brilliance ink for the leaves on the tree and then some  Luminarte Silks (Crafter's Companion) to add colour to the flowers.

Butterfly stamped with Galaxy Gold Brilliance ink.

I think maybe I should have coloured the texture paste with black paint and had a silhouette effect!

MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE JULY 2014

This month's Mixed Media Challenge is to use items found round the house.

This is my entry

The house hold items used were: pattern from a rubber glove, a bottle brush to create border, a sieve for more texture and a funnel to make the sun's outline.

I used Dylusions: Fresh Lime, Vibrant Turquoise, Lemon Zest and White Linen to colour the card.

Then acrylic paints using the house items. Sunflower SparkleTwinkling H2O for the sun. Stencils: Imaginations Crafts (Wisteria stencil), Crafter's Workshop (Water Lilies)(Imagination Crafts) and Sweet Poppy Stencils (from The Craft Station) for the Peacock. Turquoise Sparkle medium from Imaginations Crafts on the Peacock.

SWEET PEA MIXED MEDIA CANVAS

A mixed media canvas using digital elements from my Sweet Pea Summer digikit.

You will need:
A box canvas ( I used  12 x 9 ins.)
Computer paper, matt and glossy
Tissue paper
Spray temporary adhesive ( Crafter's Companion)
Matt medium
Stencil (Imagination Crafts)
Smooth texture paste or B&Q Flexible Filler
Acrylic paints...lilac and pearl lilac
Purple Sparkle medium (Imagination Crafts)
Pearl beading
Embellishments: I used, chipboard and wooden shapes (painted), skeleton leaf (painted), Dress It Up buttons with backs removed (painted), Sequin flowers, lacy bits, Stampendous Texture Flakes and Glass Glitter, flat-backed pearls.

1. I printed one of the papers from the kit on to paper and also on to tissue paper. Spray the paper with the adhesive and carefully lay the tissue paper over it. Print and then peel away the tissue. I also printed on of the toppers from the kit on to glossy photo paper.

2. Paint some of the canvas with the lilac paint and leave to dry.

3.Using the matt medium as an adhesive stick torn pieces of the patterned paper and tissue randomly on to   the canvas. Go over on to the side of the canvas as well. Leave to dry.

4. Colour the texture paste with pearl lilac paint and press through the stencil. You can add more paint or glaze with other colours if you wish.

5. Use the stencil and the Sparkle Medium to pattern elsewhere on the canvas. Leave to dry.

6. Glue the topper on to the canvas and glue the pearl beading as illustrated.

7. Glue the embellishments to the canvas. The Stampendous flakes and glitter can be fixed using the matt medium.

8. Give the canvas a coat of matt medium to seal.