Friday 16 February 2018

Pretty Painty Grunge





  • Packaging with a brilliant honeycomb structure, so ripped some of the top paper to expose the cells.
  • Applied gesso so that my Fresco paint wouldn't soak right through the cardboard.
  • Loaded a brayer with paint applied randomly layers of paint. I love how the texture is highlighted. Some areas of the background i used a baby wipe with paint to fill in some of the white areas in the honeycomb. Then letting the paint drip down the background.
  • Using scraps of a cotton dressing square, twine I coloured with the paints and stuck down with binder.
  • Painted some sequin waste and stuck that down with the binder. I used my heat gun to speed up drying time and not thing I melted some of the sequin waste!!! Not advisable as it gave of an awful smell!
  • The air dry clay flowers came about because i was using up some clay that was drying out. I did make roses to start of with but I didn't feel they were right for this project. So i had a go at making flowers using hearts and circles, colouring the clay with paint. Once dry I added the same colour paint I used in the clay. The centres on some I added glitter and some a jade bead.
  • Stamped into the clay and cut around the shape, once dry applied paint.
  • Metallic glaze paint on the clay flowers and butterflies.
  • Splattered with concrete.
  • Finally used binder to give a glaze.

Materials used;
Seth Apter Fresco Paints - Key Lime, Green Patina, Mud Splat, Smoked Paprika.
Seth Apter stamps - ESA04
Paperartsy Fresco Paints - Concrete, Metallic Glaze.
Amsterdam Binder
Air dry clay
Silicone moulds
Jade beads

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Sunday 4 February 2018

Weeds Be Daisies

ATC 3
Again I used 2 ATC sized stamping card.
I seemed to have done two together every time, no reasoning behind this,
I just thought with them being tiny 2 would show more of the stamped images.
Watered down paint and 'dripped’ and mopped up colour with a cloth
and dabbed on the card.
Stamped and embossed images.
Coloured in with various pens and pencils.
Splattered, doodled border, distressed the edges with scissors.
Inspired by PaperArtsy design team and Kay Carley post.

Material used;
PaperArtsy Stamps - EKC13, FRESCO Paints - Mermaid, Green Patina
Distress Oxide - Black Soot
Sakura sparkle and souffle pens
Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens
Inktense pencils

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