PaperArtsy Topic 17: Pigment Powders

I looked at this challenge and though I haven't got any pigments! Then as I was reading the explanation of all the pigments available it suddenly dawned on me that I had 2 kinds! Mica and Luminarte pigments. 

Primary Elements Artist-Pigments are created by hand blending bright clean high quality pigments with our proprietary blend of mica's and other minerals. The result is brilliant colours refracting light similar to a crystal. The sparkle and shimmer of Twinkling H2Os add depth and dimension, even when used in washes. Luminarte Artist Pigments are perfect for mixed media. 

Luminarte Artist-Pigments TM, mixes with ease in gum binders, any acrylic medium, water-based polyurethane acrylic glaze or gel mediums. 

So that's what I have used, but I really need some Brushos! Obviously because I need non sparkly pigments, lol. 

For this challenge I was inspired by the design done by Kay Carley.

But I wanted to try embossing powder over the wet pigments! I haven't seen it done before, then realised it would be very hard to achieve as with this method there is too much water on the card! So I didn't bother, lol. 

Here goes; 

Stamped with Versamark and then applied white embossing powder and heated with a heat gun. Anyone new to embossing must understand that a heat gun gets very hot so to melt the powder a hair-dryer doesn't get hot enough and will blow the powder away. 

I spritzed the watercolour card with water. 

Sprinkled the pigments all over and waited for the magic,adding water if needed in different parts. 

Dried thoroughly. 

With a wet brush lifted the colour from areas that I wanted to apply another colour. 

Dabbing with a paper towel to help lift even more colour. Then applied more water with the brush and sprinkled with the pigments. 

Once happy with the distribution of the powder I dried the card with a heat gun. 

I liked how Kay had applied a shadow to the stamped images. I wanted to give that ago but I forgot to do it before fixing the design with Spray n Shine, lol. 

Stamped the wording. 

Applied Spray n Shine to fix the design. 

Matted onto black card. 

Will either use for a greeting card or may hang it on the wall. I've really enjoyed this technique and it's one that I know I will use often. 

Tip; decant your powder into a shaker type container or if original container allows make a few small holes in the lid so that you can shake the powder onto your design. I didn't do this and found it hard to shake the powder from a stirring stick because most of the time it fell off in one big clump and so I had to use a brush to move the powder and water. Dipping ( just touch the surface is quite sufficient) a stiff brush into the powder then flicking it over the card and water gave a better result. 

Materials used; 

Luminarte Artist Pigments – Ginger Peach, Blushing Rose, Sky Blue, Key Lime, Sunflower. 

PaperArtsy stamps –  

Wow Embossing Powder- White. 

Versamark  

Distress Ink – Peacock. 

Crafters Companion – Spray n Shine. 

From my stash; 

Watercolour card. 

Fine mist sprayer. 

Black card. 

Challenge entered; 

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PaperArsty Topic 16 – Circles

Hi there bloggers this post is going to be a very quick one as I'm really late writing it up! My project was finished Tuesday (it's now Sunday 2pm!) but I had a message from my friend about a dog that needed re homing and he's coming all the way from Spain! I will blog about him and his journey once I get him this next Friday but through messaging the person about him I got it in my mind it was Friday just gone n went into panic mode getting things ready for him, lol.

Anyway back to the challenge.

Inspired by  

Gabrielle Price 

I used white card as my base, ripped up pieces of a book and some bits of patterned paper I found.

Stuck them to the card with Matt glue.

Washed over with dilute white paint.

Once dry embossed and dry brushed with blue paint.

Applied grunge paste through a stencil and then stamped into it for even more texture.

Stamped with paint onto the background then stamped on spotty tissue paper.

Painted them on the reverse side.

Applied to background with Matt glue.

Highlighted with white pen.

Glitter and pearl drops added to finish.

I will make them into cards when required and add a sentiment to suit the recipient.

Materials used;

PaperArtsy -  Fresco Paints Beach Hut, Yellow Submarine, Orchid, Tango. JOFY38. Grunge paste.

Indigoblu – Slap It On. Pantry White paint. Stamp.

Clarity Stamps – Stencil

Distress Stickles

Liquid Pearls.

From my stash;

Spotty tissue.

Embossing folder.

White pen.

White card.

Bottle tops various sizes.

Challenge entered;

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Paperartsy 2015 Topic 15 – Gels and Mediums

After watching the video done by Lin Brown  showing how to use gel medium and shimmer sprays I couldn't wait to give it a try.

I love Pauo shell. The colours that glimmer in the different light I don't think there is another shell that comes as near to the WOW factor as Pauo shell. 

I gathered together my shimmer sprays. I have so many that I have no idea which company they are made by and some of them I have decanted into the Tim Holtz mini misters. The mini misters don't seem to block as easy as the bigger bottles! The larger bottles I find I have to de-blocked the nozzles every time I use them! (to de-block nozzles I remove the spray head n soak in warm soapy water). 

I used PaperArtsy's Crunchy Paper, freezer paper (waxy side), black card and white card. 

Leandra suggested a stencil with smaller patterns as they seemed to work better than a more open space. 

Initially I had 3 sets of paper n card. 

These are the final choice of designs for my tin.

I used the stencils with clear gel medium.

 

 

 

 

All of the paper and card.

Waited for them to dry. 

Arranged in groups and decided which shimmers to use with which sets. 

Sprayed them and left them over night to dry. 

The next morning most of them I liked but added more shimmers to ones I didn't think looked like the shell. 

Once dry added a blue shimmer to the waxed Kraft paper that had circles on it thinking would look even more like shell but ruined it cos the shimmer was the wrong blue so wiped it off with a damp paper towel. Luckily that worked so I left it at that point. (The above top foto is with the blue shimmer and the bottom foto is with it wiped off!). Because my shimmers were not permanent I sprayed a gloss varnish over it so as to protect the shimmer. 

I then stamped the blobby flowers with bronze embossing powder but they were really hard to see against the background.

 

So stamped them on tissue and embossed. 

Painted them on the reverse with translucent paints so as not to take the eye away from the shell effect once applied to the paper with Matt Mod Podge. 

Still a little hard to make out but I think they compliment the shell effect. 

Painted the tin. 

I've had that tin for years. Originally it was a presentation tin for a watch but I had been using it for my roll ups. I stopped smoking at the beginning of April and wanted to I decorate it so completely changing it and giving it a new life! I'm going to put mints in it and return it to my Kipling bag as it feels odd with out it, the bag feels empty. I feel as if I have forgotten something, lol. 

Cut wax paper to size and glued onto the tin with my rubbish glue gun. I then decided to cut a smaller piece and stick it on the bottom of the tin. 

Coated all of the tin with 2 coats of gloss Mod Podge. 

I'm really happy with the results but I think Lin's looks more realistic to the Pauo shell. I must get some of the sprays she used, when mine have run out!!! Well when nearly run out! Honestly must get some soon, lol. 

Materials used; 

PaperArtsy JOYF38, Beach Hut, Yellow Submarine. 

PaperArtsy's Crunchy Paper.  

Maimeri Gloss gel medium. 

Americana pearlizing medium. 

IndigoBlu matt paint – Park Lane. 

Stencils mainly Sheena Douglass. 

Shimmer sprays various companies. 

Mod Podge – Matt, Gloss. 

Stampendous embossing enamel - Aged Copper. 

Versamark. 

Crafters Companion - Spray and Shine. 

From my stash; 

Black, white card. 

Freezer paper. 

Tissue. 

Challenge entered; 

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