The Craft Barn: Dreamweaver

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Saturday, 7 January 2017

3D Bloom and Texture

Hi Everyone!

Hope you are all wrapped up

warm and cozy on this fine

chilly day!

We have Hazel Harler to talk

us through her stunning canvas

so get yourself a cheery cuppa

and prepare to be A-mazed....

"For my project I used a 6" square canvas board

First I cut some vase shapes out of corrugated card

having the ridges go different ways,

then I glued some wooden shapes and pearls to them.

The vases then had a coat of gesso

I coloured the vases with acrylic paint.

then sprayed gold foil Color Bloom on the blue vase,

brimstone wings on the pink vase and

dragonfly blue on the pale blue vase

I used my finger to spread some Treasure Pewter over the vases

I stencilled some modelling paste through a Dreamweaver stencil

and gave it a coat of gesso when the paste had dried.

I watered down some acrylic paint , dabbed it on the canvas

and sprayed with water letting it run down.

I put the paint on one colour at a time drying it between colours

I thought it was a bit pale so I added some yellow

paint and some red Gelatos I also splattered some frost Color Bloom

I used my finger to spread Treasure Pewter

over the modelling paste and went round the edge with black ink.

I stamped some Paperartsy tulips.

I coloured the flowers with pencils and cut them out

I'd stamped extra flowers so that I could 3D the central petal.

I glued all the pieces to the canvas."

Suplies used:

6" square canvas board.
Corrugated card.
Gesso.
Decoart acrylic paint.
Color Bloom - frost, dragonfly blue, brimstome wings and gold foil.
Treasure pewter.
Decoart modelling paste.
Dreamweaver stencil.
Gelatos.
Coloured pencils.
Wooden shapes and flatbacked pearls.

Thank you Hazel for your lovely canvas

giving us spring flowers and cheer

I'm thinking this will look lovely on my

mantel shelf and remind me that

spring really is just around the corner.......

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Saturday, 26 November 2016

Wax Paper & Acetate

Hello

Today we have gorgeous project to inspire us

for those Cards we still have to make....

Here is Hazel Harler who is Caught in Crystal:

I haven't done this technique for a few years so

I thought it was time to have another go.

You will need a sheet of acetate, alcohol inks, glossy accents

and crumpled tissue paper.

Other items that can be added are glitter, micro beads,

mica powder, gilding flakes etc

I squeezed stickles and glossy accents over the acetate

Then I dripped in some alcohol ink

I covered the inked acetate with the tissue paper and pressed it down,

if you are wearing rubber gloves you can do this with your fingers,

I would suggest you use a ball of kitchen towel

if you're not wearing gloves.

Leave to dry preferably overnight.

This is a close up after it had dried

A few sheets of different colours.

I've made a few cards with some of my acetate.

For this card I stamped the card blank with snowflakes using Fresco metalic glaze, the wooden snowmen were covered with Treasure Pewter wax

For this card I covered some black card with inca gold Alchemy wax and used a Stampendous stamp and die for the poinsettia. The acetate had some glitter added to it.

The acetate can also be die cut, I used a Sizzix die. The card was coloured with distress ink and I layered different handmade papers at the bottom. I added gilding flakes to the acetate

I covered the Tando snowmen with Frantage embossing enamel, I added mica powder to the acetate and the snowy mesh is from my stash.

For the next two cards I stencilled Imagination Crafts sparkle medium using Dreamweaver stencills. The sentiments on most of the cards are remnent rubs