Simon Monday Challenge - Make your own background

Hi everyone hope your weekend was good. I'm scraping into the last hours of this week's Simon Monday Challenge where the challenge is 'make your own background'. I'm also entering the Mixed Media World challenge of Vintage as I think the panel has an old worn look to it on the square board piece.

I've used an Artcuts heart on top of a 6 inch square chipboard piece and I've made the backgrounds for both with gesso, paints, glaze, Brusho watercolour and acrylic paints.

The board background has roughly applied gesso for texture then layers of paint glazes before stamping with ab Inkyliscious butterfly stamp set and colouring with watercolour pens.

The heart background is created differently using a blocking out technique over butterfly stamped Brusho watercolour background. I used Absorbant Ground to keep the colours bright.

I added some mesh fabric under the heart, ribbon through the hole at the top of the heart and added doodling with various pens to finish off.

Back soon.

Chris x

 

Woodware and Brusho at the Craft Barn

Hi everyone, I'm sharing some cards that were made recently for a Craft Barn class and were part of the class when we also made the canvas that I blogged here using Brusho paints. For the cards we made background papers using the Brusho paints and then stamped with some gorgeous Woodware stamps and coloured them with alcohol markers.

I added lots of sparkle to all the cards with stardust glitter glue and snow with a white gel pen.

The Reindeer card was done slightly differently, this time I used the Brusho papers to paper piece Rudolf except for his antlers which are coloured with silver pencil.

The colours may not be quite as vibrant as they are in person as I took the pictures at the shop having forgotten take them at the time. Saturday was my last class at the bricks and mortar Craft Barn shop which closed on Sunday but happily they are continuing online and with classes in an alternative venue with a pop up shop starting in the new year.

Back soon,

Chris x

 

Brusho Fun - Craft Barn

Hi everyone, it's been a while, hope you're all well. I wanted to share a project that I made for the 'All things Christmas' club at the Craft Barn last week. Not a Christmas project but I create items that can be given as gifts as well. The lovely ladies that come along are great fans of Brusho paints just as I am and all their canvases were a delight to see when they were finished.

I used a canvas but worked on the back so that I had a recess to play with. The staples and folded over canvas corners were hidden with grunge paste and then painted over with PaperArtsy Snowflake white paint. The Brusho paints were then sprinkled over and spritzed with water to activate them. I wanted to keep some white areas showing so I didn't completely cover with the Brusho's. I used a combination of Alizirin Crimson, Leaf Green, Lemon Yellow and a tiny hint of Turquoise paints.

In the recess I've worked on some Stampbord one inch tiles with Alizirin Crimson, Lemon Yellow, and a touch of Orange Brusho's spritzed for a lovely autumnal watercolour effect. I stamped the tiles with a lovely Woodware nine leaf print stamp and then arranged the tiles into the canvas using gel medium to stck them down.

Later I scratched into the tiles with a scratching tool for some highlights but didn't photo that part unfortunately, I may update the post later.

I've added my project to the Simon Monday Challenge blog where they have a theme of ombré.

Back soon.

Chris x

 

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Paperbabe Stamps July Release - Day 2

Hi everyone, I'm back for the second day of the Paperbabe Stamps July release and today we're introducing two brilliant mixed media sentiment sets in red rubber. As well as being perfect for mixed media creations and journal pages I also thought the same as Kim; that they would make lovely statement cards for creative people or just to send for no particular reason. So for today I've made cards stamping the sentiments in versamark ink over Brusho watercolour backgrounds then embossing with white enamel.

The all about you set has seven large stamps and the card above uses two from this set, I thought these two worked well together.

The second set is art quotes and there are six stamps ideal for working into all sorts of mixed media projects and with the mixed media portrait templates and face stamps.

There are so many ways to create with sentiment stamps and for me they are often my most useful stamps.

Love this quote by Degas and also all the typefaces Kim has used to design the sets.

I'll be trying out the sentiments in many ways such as with gold leaf, different embossing powders, paint and various inks too.

There's more creativity on the Paperbabe Stamps blog with links to all the DT blogs for some wonderful inspiration. Kim will also be introducing the new mixed media hand templates tomorrow.

Back soon,

Chris x

 

 

 

 

 

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Paperbabe Stamps April Release day two

Hi everyone, I'm back today for the second Paperbabe Stamps April Release introduction which is the face building profile set. I've created a journal layout with the profile stamp set in a mixed media style with lots of doodlied patterns and text using black and white pens and a background of Brusho paints.

I blocked out a shape around the face profile with black soot distress paint and after an under painting of a skin tone watercolour in the face and neck area I built the face with stamps from the set, there are lots of options for changing the look of the face with the different stamps for the features. I finished the colouring of the face with pencils and gave her a crown with Ranger tarnished brass acrylic paint.

I'm back tomorrow with new Mayleedee digi introduction and there's some inspiration from Kim on the Paperbabe Stamps blog.

Chris x

 

 

 

 

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Easter Bunting

Hi everyone, I'm joining in with a couple of challenges I've found this week and sharing an Easter project I've created on Artcuts Easter egg bunting.

I added gesso to the wood eggs and then applied Brusho paints for my background. I've stamped with a Tim Holtz mini blueprints Easter stamp set on the larger eggs using IndigoBlu flitter glue and on all the eggs with a speckle stamp from the Tim Holtz set 'Bitty Grunge' also in flitter glue. I added gold IndigoBlu mega flake over the glue then burnished and removed the excess to leave the lovely gilded stamping. I also added some brown ink over all the eggs with the same speckle stamp as before.

I've used up some of my stash of various prima and other flowers with some gems here and there.

I've made the egg shapes into bunting by threading some seam binding ribbon through the holes in the tops of the eggs and this was coloured with Tumbled Glass distress stain.

So far I've maned to not eat my chocolate Easter egg, if you celebrate Easter how have you managed :-)?

I'm entering my binging into the challenges at That Craft Place - Easter/Spring, Pile it on - Easter/Spring, Crafty Boots - Easter, Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes.

Have a lovely Easter.

Chris x

 

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Christmas Club at the Craft barn

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a good weekend. I had a lovely day out with a friend in Brighton yesterday and took in a painting launch at article in the lanes of Craig Alan's work, it was interesting to hear about his process and all that he does before he even starts on a canvas, there was pink fizz too but I still couldn't afford the price tags of course :-).

Once a month at the Craft Barn we have Christmas Club day where some lovely ladies join me to get a head start on everything Christmas. We make cards and also items to give as gifts etc., we also have a good laugh and quite often yummy cakes.

Last Monday Brusho paints were the colour ingredient for the day and we used them for the backgrounds of this lovely little paper mâché book set together with some stamping (Kaisercraft stamps) and and highlights of white pen and glossy accents.

The card this time was a shaker style card with gorgeous Cosmic Shimmer glitter jewels inside. Again we used the Brusho paints for the background, stamping this time with Woodware stamps and some stencilling on the top layer with a Tim Holtz stencil.

Enjoy your Sunday,

Chris x

 

 

 

 

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