Using a page from
my journal.
Applied white
gesso to the grey board.
Spread crackle
paste through the stencil and left to dry.
Once dry applied a
thin layer of Gesso. Then the magic begins!
Sprinkled
infusions on the crackled flowers spritzed with water and the infusions
disappeared!!! Tried again and most of the infusions disappeared! When I say I
wanted the magic to happen I didn’t mean for them to disappear I wanted to see
the explosion of colours!
Not to be defeated
I carried on with the background and sprinkled rusty car on to the areas not
crackled then spritzed with water. At least that was more successful!
Then a 'light
bulb' moment I remembered I needed to seal the crackle once dry but if I did
that now the infusions would move.
Dry brushed Smoked
Paprika around the edges and also dry brushed Key Lime in the center.
I sprayed a gloss
varnish all over the background. Put it to one side to dry.
OMG once dry there
was a white ghosting/shadow formed around the flowers! Magic again, lol! I am
not artist trained (my profession is a qualified nurse) so I don’t know why
this happened! If anybody out there in blog land could tell me that would be
brilliant or could it be pure magic!
Again not to be
defeated, on a separate piece of thin card I brushed the infusions with
pearlizing medium (in keeping with the glam theme) across the card. Finally
something turned out how I had imagined.
Placed 2 blobs of
gloss gel medium onto my craft sheet. Sprinkled infusions on the gel then using
a sponge mixed the infusions as I sponged through the stencil.
Once dried I cut
them out. Shaped them and glued them on top of the crackle flowers.
For the centres of
the flowers I applied a blob of pva glue and sprinkled infusions over the top.
When everything
was dry mixed a tiny amount of infusions with texture paste and scrapped
through the squiggles on the stencil.
I stamped the
sentiment on card left over from the flowers. Coloured 'Bloom' with a mix of
white chalk paint and infusions. Tore the edges and dipped my finger into a
tiny tiny amount of infusions and water and applied to the torn edges.
Used silicon glue
to adhere them to the background.
To finish I Splattered
with white paint.
I have only used
the Rusty Car and Slime infusions for all of this design! The amount of
different colours and versatility of these little magic crystals/powders is
staggering. I love using them.
Alison Hall's blog post gave me the inspiration for this project.
Materials used;
PaperArtsy - Infusions
Rusty Car, Slime. Stencil JOFY057. Stamps JOFY24,37. Fresco Paint Smoked Paprika, Key
Lime.
DecoArt Gesso,
Crackle paste, pearlizing medium.
White chalk paint
Gloss spray varnish.
Challenge entered;
