Go stencil crazy!

Hello again.  Yes, its that time again already.  If you didn't enter last months Clarity challenge, I'm hoping maybe me or one of my talented teamies can inspire you to create a project using your Clarity stencils.  I'm looking forward to seeing loads of fabulous entries this month.

 

Here is my project...

 

First, I inked up the centre of the "Home is where the heart is" stencil with watering can archival, taped it into place onto an A5 canvas board and ran it through my embossing machine.

 

 

Using the stencil as a guide, I cut a paper mask of the cloud line, and spread grunge paste over the whole top section of the canvas.

 

 

In a similar way, I spread grunge paste over the lower section.  I tried sprinkling colour burst powders onto the grunge paste while it was still wet to represent flowers, but AAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!  Don't like that!

 

 

 Then, to make it even worse;  when I tried spritzing with water, I discovered that I'd got some higher up on the canvas.  It looked a right mess, but I decided to carry on.

 

 

 Then I used a mixture of distress inks and Paperartsy fresco finish paints to colour the clouds, and worked down the canvas with inks.  I tried to create the effect of a beautiful sunrise or sunset. 

OMG!!!!!!  That colour burst smudge is getting worse!

 

 

Then I used a mask to add clouds into the background.  

 

 

Now it was time to start thinking about what I could do to disguise that awful smudge:  foliage and flowers will do nicely.  I used Paperartsy paint through the olive wreath stencil, moving it as required. 

 

 

Next, I cut the house out of an old book page, inked the edges before sticking down, then added a few more leaves to ground it.

 

 

I replaced the home is where the heart is stencil, and pulled grunge paste through the words as shown.

 

 

I added ink to the words, and some charcoal to add depth and shadow.

 

 

Now for some flowers in the garden.  More grunge paste, this time through the flower stencil;  and those colour bursts are still coming through!

 

 

I sponged some white paint through the stencil onto some canvas, ready to colour and fussy cut.

 

 

I coloured the flowers with Spectrum Noir pencils.

 

 

As a final quirky touch, I added some keys for flower stems.

 

This was a project I really enjoyed making:  a journey where I took a few wrong turns because I didn't really know exactly where I was headed until I got there!  I hope you like it, and that maybe you feel inspired to try out a stencil project of your own.  Thanks for visiting;  hope to see you again soon.  Till next time.  Xxx

 

 

 

 

 

DT samples for Hochanda TV 27/09/15

Hello there!  What a beautiful sunny day its been here.  I managed to watch Barbara getting all Groovi before going out for Sunday lunch, but missed the first hour this afternoon and will have to catch up later.  

 

These are all my DT offerings for this month.  I'll be blogging them in a bit more detail over the coming weeks.  I hope you like them and find something to inspire you.

Till next time.  Xxx

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A new Claritystamp challenge

Hello again.  Here we are again at the start of another month, and that can only mean one thing.  Yes, its time for a new Claritystamp challenge.  This month we're asking you to make a shaped card.  If you're short on ideas or inspiration, pop over to the challenge blog to see all the wonderful varied work made by my teamies.
http://claritystampchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

For my card, I decided to use a new die I bought recently.

Ingredients
Gelli/stencil card
Potting soil archival
Garden birds stamp set
Maya Angelou sentiment stamp
Stonewashed adirondack
Spectrum noir pencils
Versamark pen
Clear detail embossing powder
Die'sire Oval Accordion Create a Card die

 

First, cut out the card front using the die and two of the scalloped edge plaques.

 

Mask off the central oval and the overlap edge of the card front with post-it notes, and stamp the blossom branch around the frame. 

 

   

 

Colour with Spectrum Noir pencils.

 

Glaze with versamark pen and detail clear embossing powder.  (Sorry about the picture, this was very difficult to photograph)

 

                                               

 

Brush in the sky with stonewashed adirondack, the excess will wipe off the glazed surface of the flowers.

 

Stamp the scalloped plaques;  one with the sentiment, the other with the blossom branch and a blue tit.

 

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Colour in to match with Spectrum Noir pencils and brush stonewashed adirondack lightly round the edge of both plaques.

  

                                               

 

Glue in place onto both sides of the central oval, and add an extra fussy cut flower to finish.

 

Cut a piece of card for the back, and stick into place.

 

Hope you like it and you feel inspired to make your own shaped card.  Don't forget to pop over to the Claritystamp challenge blog too, and see what my talented teamies have done too.  The possibilities are endless.  I can't wait to see what you'll do.  Till next time.  Xxx