Indian Summer Iylah Poppy Frame

Indian summer for me sums up bright oranges, reds, pinks, purples n green.

For this challenge I have decorated a frame for my great niece's birthday. She will be 1 this Thursday. Her middle name is poppy so just crying out for me to use the poppy stamps.

·         Firstly I painted an old picture frame with a mixture of red and orange satin acrylic paint. i wanted a mat finish so I mixed pantry white and it did the trick. I used cut n dry to apply the paint as this helps any problem of visible brush strokes. the paint blends easier with cut and dry, i put the 3 blobs of paint on a brown craft sheet and picked a little of each colour then press against the mat, this pushes the colour into the cut n dry. I had some paint left over so applied to some card to use for the stamps.

·         You may be thinking the frame is orange! I changed my mind cos the red and orange didn’t compliment the photo so used acrylic orange and pantry white.

·         I stamped the poppies with Versamark and embossed.

·         Added more colour to them.

·         Cut them out.

·         Stuck them to the frame with PVA glue.

·         Sprayed all of the frame and poppies to seal it.

Voila pretty frame for a pretty little girl.

Materials used

Indigoblu stamps - Poppy Meadow.

Indigoblu - pantry white paint.

Embossing powder-Stampendous vintage mahogany tinsel.

Versamark.

Sizzix - Tattered Florals XL die

Darice embossing folder.

Sue Wilson butterfly die.

Wink of Stella violet, pink, black.

Crafters companion pink glitter spray varnish.

From my stash

Wooden frame.

Acrylic paint

Centura pearl green card.

White card.

Challenge entered;

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Stencil Tag

The technique I have used is by Tim Holtz. Challenges are; PanPastels - Inspired by Tim, Thats Crafty use stencils, masks or templates, I've used my own stencil made with the silhouette cameo. The Craft Barn a quote with the words IMAGINATION & LOGIC, I found on the internet for challenge.

·         Start by tapping distress inks on my stencil.

·         Misted the inked stencil with water so to react the distress inks.  

Placed it on to watercolour cardstock. Tim's instructions - While the stencil is on the cardstock, press down over the entire design using a paper towel to print the colour as well as immediately absorb any ink that might seep out inside the stencil openings.

·         TOP TIP don’t use a stencil that has a tacky surface that helps it stay in place because i had inked the other side so when I placed it on the cardstock my fingers kept sticking to the stencil so I wasn’t able to press on it to achieve a clear pattern! 

·         Lift the stencil off, dried with a heat tool.  

·         I Cut the cardstock to fit the tag and distressed the edges with PanPastels

·         I used the same stencil. Used Versamark and dusted on PanPastels then adhered watercolour cardstock to the tag.

·         Stamp the dragonflies using black archival ink.

·         Then I stamped the dragonflies a second time on the watercolour cardstock and cut them out. I didn’t have to colour then as there was some colour from the previous stencilling so that's where I stamped them.

·         Wrote the quote, then cut them out separately and coloured with distress ink then adhered along side of the dragonflies, slightly bending the wings to create dimension.

·         Embellished with a small butterfly on a head pin and curled the wire using my pocky tool.

·         I Applied distress inks to craft sheet and Misted the inks with water

·         Cut 2 pieces of ribbon and rubbed them into the inks until covered.

·         Dried with a heat tool.

·         Tim's description of the bow - Start by inserting the short ribbon through the hole in the tag.

·         Take the longer ribbon and secure one end under your thumb.

·         Wrap the remaining ribbon around your fingers until you run out.

·         Slide the loop of ribbon from your fingers and pinch in the centre to hold. Place the loop on to the top of the tag and tie the short ribbon around the loops to hold. Tie again to create a knot.

·         My doesn’t look as good as his because he used crinkle ribbon and I haven’t got any so made do with satin ribbon which didn’t absorb the inks a good as crinkle ribbon.

That's something else on my 'I WANT' list of craft goodies!!

Materials used

Stencil - made with my silhouette cameo

Distress inks - crushed olive. Spiced marmalade, picked raspberry.

Archival ink - black

PanPastels - pink, green, orange.

Versamark

Viva decor 3D glitter stamp paint - silver.

Papermania rubber stamps - dragonflies

From my stash

Watercolour card

Ribbon

Water Mister

Challengers entered;

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Pastel Flowers

This is the first time that I have tried to compose an actual picture with the PanPastels! I've done plenty of backgrounds and using them with dimensional mediums but not as the main focal point.

Basically all I did was position the stencils where I wanted them and using the brush loaded it up with the PanPastels and applied it to the paper.

I hadn’t got a plan but just played with it until I got something workable.

Stamped the flowers and circles with versamark.

Sprinkled the embossing powder over stamped images and heated with a heat gun.

Coloured the flowers with Wink of Stella and the circles with the distress pen.

Finished!

Materials used

Watercolour card and Stencils from my stash.

Soft brush.

PanPastels - magenta, magenta extra dark, permanent green shade, bright yellow green shade.

Sheena Douglass stamps - A taste of India-Mandala

Versamark.

Wow embossing powder - verdigris

Wink of Stella - dark pink, orange.

Distress marker - crushed olive.

Challenge entered; panpastels blog