One for the Boys

One for the Boys

Hallo Everyone!

Today we have Claire Jackson

with another Seth Apter inspired 

project for you.  Oooh, I can't wait

to see what she has made for us ....

"Settle down with a cuppa as this 

is quite a long post! 

I’ve gone into a fair bit of detail so that

 you can see how the layers build up, 

but really it is a very simple mono printing 

technique that I have used.

 I started with the Tando Kate Crane 7 Piece Planner 

made from really robust board. 

I covered alternate pages with black or white gesso, 

not worrying about mixing the colours or picking up

 blobs of paint on the way.

With the black gesso left on the craft mat 

I pressed a white page onto it to lift some of the paint. 

I lifted as much black paint as possible onto 

the white pages before a little spritz with water. 

You can see the difference in the patterns 

when the paint was wetter.

I repeated the process with the black pages; 

painting white gesso directly onto the craft mat 

and pressing the pages onto it.

I used PaperArtsy’s limited edition of Seth Apter paints,

 with addition of mermaid and snowflake.

I continued to build up layers by brushing paint 

directly onto the craft mat and then pressing the 

pages onto the paint strokes.

The covers and inside pages 3, 4, 7, 8, 11 

and 12 were layered with green patina, 

mermaid and mudsplat...

...while the remaining pages 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 and 

10 were layered with smoked paprika and key lime. 

I didn't worry if some of the other colours were 

picked up too from the dried paint on the mat.

Steps 6 and 7 were repeated until 

I was happy with the layers and the craft mat 

looked like this...!

I used Seth Apter stamps from 

PaperArtsy and Impression Obsession.

The white pages were stamped with 

black archival ink and the black pages 

were stamped in white snowflake paint

The green patina pages were also given a

 spatter with key lime and smoked paprika.

The ‘now’ wording was stamped on tissue paper

 and painted with white snowflake on the reverse. 

I added it to page 2 with gel medium so that 

it can be seen through the aperture in the front cover.

The ‘create’ wording was also stamped on tissue. 

First I painted over the letters on the reverse 

in white, then daubed some key lime and 

smoked paprika behind the circles, 

before painting over the circles with white again. 

I took care to leave the edges unpainted so 

they became transparent when adhered 

with gel medium."

Materials used:

Tando Creative: Kate Crane 7 piece planner kit
White gesso:
Black gesso:
PaperArtsy fresco finish chalk paint: Seth Apter set 2, snowflake, mermaid
 Impression Obsession Seth Apter stamps

PaperArtsy Seth Apter stamps

Super project Claire thank you.

I really like the idea of alternate

pages of black and white gesso

I had been wondering what I would do

with my Kate Crane Planner Kit........

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx