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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katzelkraft Transportation

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend and you're enjoying some nice weather, it's been beautiful here and nice to see some sun for a change.

I have a Katzelkraft project to show today and I've used stamps from the Transportation set which I love and I know I'll be using this a lot for all the male birthdays that I have coming up. 

The plane image is stamped onto three domino size stampbord pieces which I coloured with various distress inks. The stampbord was taped down and butted up against each other before stamping with Archival ink and  I stamped the sentiments over and around the plane without re-inking them each time then scratched in the details and highlights with a scratch tool. The stampbord is mounted on an inked chipboard rectangle and that onto a Sizzix alterations baroque die cut chipboard piece also inked with distress ink. 

Katzelkraft stamps are available in France at Katzelkraft Stamps and in the UK at The Craft Barn.

Enjoy your day. :)

Katzelkraft Vintage

Hi everyone! It's my day on the Katzelkraft blog and I've made a vintage style card using the gorgeous stamps from the 'Mode' A5 stamp plate. The glamorous vintage lady has been stamped onto stampbord and coloured with distress inks and I've stamped the Paris and swirly corner directly onto the Webster's pages 'Hollywood' patterned paper before sanding and distressing the edges. Added a few pearls and hand dyed ribbon to decorate.

Enjoy your day! :)