Dimensional

Dimensional

Today we have Dawn Heald  to 

show us a beautiful bowl she has created:

I've made a shaped button bowl and I'll be honest it was meant to be a flower bowl. However, with a slip of my scissors and a couple plasters later, it changed. I'm overall pleased as these make handy little bowls easy to get at the contents.

You can make papier mache shapes using a variety of different sturdy objects. Just wrap in plastic wrap/cling film first to prevent the paper sticking to your objectives.

To make this project.

Choose object shape to use as a Mold. Cover with cling film first to prevent the paper sticking to your object. Tear small pieces of book pages and glue them all over your object. Build up as many layers as you like depending on how thick you want it. Leave to dry naturally.

Then remove object from the papier mache. You may need to cut down it to prise is off. If so simply use small pieces of book pages and glue back together. Dry and then trim and neaten edges to get shape you want. Neaten further by sanding and applying glue on very edge.

Paint all over with watered down white gesso

When dry apply colour all over using Alchemy Wax using sponge and or paintbrush.

Now make some embellishments with Shell Mold and paper clay, painted with Starlight Paint and Pink Alchemy Wax. Make some little fishes by Stamping Fish stamps onto Frosted shrink plastic, die cut, colour with clear sparkle pen and shrink with heat tool.

Back to the bowl, sponge edges and stamp the little asterisks all over the outside with Black Stazon Ink. Then add dots of White PVA glue all around outside. Dry.

Stick embellishments around outside of bowl. Add further decoration with buttons and Peacock Stickles.

The finished bowl from all angles:

Products used: 

Imagination Crafts Alchemy Wax: Peridot, Japanese Jade, Cobalt, Pink Tulip 

Imagination Crafts Starlights Metallic Paint: Pearl, Orange Oxidized 

Heartfelt Creations Under The Sea Stamps, 

Heartfelt Creations Under The Sea Die set 

PaperArtsy Lin Brown stamps ELB15

Woodware Seashells Mold 

Paper Clay 

Polyshrink Shrink Plastic: Sampler Pack 

Cosmic Shimmer White PVA Glue 

Stickles Glitter Glue: Peacock 

Stazon Ink Pad: Jet Black 

White Gesso

Multi matte medium

Wink of Stella clear pen

Thank you Dawn for showing us how to go about
making these beautiful bowls.


That's all for today folks!!

Mickie xx

Tissue Paper Background

Happy Friday everyone! 

Doesn't it come round quick?

Karen Gist is here today with 

a 6x6 inch canvas using tissue paper

as the background and PaperArtsy

Eclectic Lin Brown's gorgeous

Sunflower stamp set, which is one

of her favourites because you can

do so much with it.

To begin with, take a sheet of white tissue paper, cut to around double the size of the canvas and stamp the swirl from the set using Stazon Gothic Purple

When it is dry, screw up into a tight ball and undo

again carefully so that you don't rip the tissue paper.  Place it over the canvas without soothing it too much and attach using gel medium.

Allow the creases and wrinkles to show.

When this is dry, rub a little orange ink onto the wrinkly

paper and around the sides to pick up the creases

Take some white card and paint blocks of colour with the Fresco Tango and Guacamole.  When dry and using a fine-ish brush add lines from the centre of the Tango with Vanilla and Guacamole.  This forms the centres of the flowers.  Stamps the sub flower of the top using the same ink as before.

Also stamp the stem over the Guacamole as shown.  

Plus stamp a circle centre from the pack in Guacamole

When dry cut out.

Paint some Tango, Guacamole and Vanilla onto white card.  This will be the base for the alpha stamps and the quote.

I used different fonts of stamps for the lettering and finished off the piece with some white doodles

Lovely project Karen, thank you.

Hope you have been inspired and here is a list of 

products Karen used

PaperArtsy Eclectica Sunflower
Mini Stretched Canvas
Stan Gothic Purple 
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paint
Tissue Paper

Triplets - Dawn Heald

Happy Weekend,

It's Saturday again and I hope you have 

a nice weekend planned!

Not sure what we are expecting weatherwise

but I'm sure its bound to involve

some of the wet stuff!

This is our last post of the week and

today Dawn is here to show you 

what she has been doing....

Dawn says.....

Hello how's everyone doing? For our topic

 this week I decided to make a set of

 ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) as it's been

 ages since I last made any. I also had

 a play with some of the new Liquid Pearls in stock.

To make a background, squeeze some 

Liquid Pearls onto a craft mat and use a 

brayer to apply to white card. Repeat for

 each colour in turn, building up layers.

Finish with a light layer of white gesso 

applied with a brayer.

Cut black card into three pieces measuring

 3.5" × 2.5"

When background is dry cut off a section

 to be used for the ATC's.

Add some stencilling and Stamping

 to build up flat layers.

Cut into three pieces slightly smaller

 than the black pieces of card and glue

 each to the black card.

Stamp, colour and cut out three owls.

Attach owls with foam pads.

Print or stamp twit twoo and stick under  owls.

Add some white paint dots around cards.

The liquid pearls does make

 a great paint and the sheen on it is lovely.

 The white paint layer brings it together well. 

Hope you like!

Yes we do like Dawn, thank you!
What do you think?
I'd never thought of using Liquid Pearls
like that.

Products Dawn used -

PaperArtsy Lin Brown stamps ELB17

Liquid Pearls - various colours

Kaisercraft - Floral Quarters Stencil

Stazon Inks - Violet, Grey, Cherry Pink

White Acrylic Paint

Copic Pens

Brayer

Black Card

White Card

So that is another week gone,
I'll be back with the Weekly Challenge
tomorrow! 
Now, what shall we have this time?

Jane x

Anything Goes - Dawn Heald

Morning all,

Saturday again, another week gone,

another week nearer Christmas!

Looking back at the projects our
DT has made over the year, I thought this one was
definitely worth showing again!
Wonderful Brushos and an amazing 
tutorial by Dawn.

Dawn says -

"I decided to really experiment with Brusho's and show their versatility. 

 The only thing I didn't get on to are resist techniques.

They mixed with everything I tried and stayed

 put, as long as the

 colour crystals are fixed with thickener, water,

 mediums, they stay.

         To make a sprinkler, I've shown below how to put some                         paper over, tape round with masking tape and

                               poke a few holes in the top.

             The lids do fit back on without having to remove your                                           sprinkler each time.

First off I made a colour swatch of all the pots,

 mixed with water

 and then Brusho Thickener. As you only

 need small amounts of colour

 crystals I used a straw that I cut into a V 

scoop shape at the end to

 take colour out of the pot.

Brusho Thickener tip - if you are having trouble

 getting it to dissolve

 in the water, heat in microwave for ten seconds. 

It works. I made up 

a smaller batch using 150ml water to 5 grams

 of thickener powder.

Here's an art journal page I made using various ways

 to apply Brushos.

I really do recommend these pots of

 wonderful colour".

Well I hope you found this really interesting.

Thank you Dawn for all your hard work!

I think you will find these Brusho's are amazing!

So this is what Dawn used -

Brusho Crystal Colour 24 Set

Brusho Thickener 

Spiral Bound Journal

White paper

Versamark Ink

Clear Embossing Powder

Tando Creative Stencil

Grunge Paste

Spray bottles

For the Art Journal page Dawn used -

Brusho's and Thickener

PaperArtsy Stamps - Lin Brown

Stazon Ink - Jet Black

Clear Acetate

Acrylic Paint - White

Stencil

Brayer

So just a little of what you can do with Brusho's.

I hope you have been inspired to have a go with them.

You will not be disappointed!

Tomorrow is Weekly Challenge Day....

what shall it be I wonder....

Jane x

Irresistible - Dawn Heald

Happy Weekend everyone,

It's supposed to be a nice day today and do you know

why.......

cos I'm working all day in the shop!!

So come and say hi if you are in the area, we'd

love to see you.

So, today is our second day of Irresistible,

Dawn is here to show you what she has 

been up to.....

Hi all, what fun I've had using these sprays. Not

 just your ordinary colour spray, these leave you

 with translucent textured colour. You can just

 simply spray or use a stencil, flick them, make

 circle dome embellishments by unscrewing

 the lid and dabbing the end of the stick on

 craft mat. When dry they easily peel off

 ready to stick to your projects.

 

I wanted to try another way of using them.

 So I painted with them. I'm impressed.

 You can even paint texture into the areas

 coloured too. Embossing does push the

 colour away so paint a very thin layer

 then paint over again, it helps.

Lovely for colour washes and you can darken the

 colour by adding the colour liquid thicker in

 areas. So you can achieve tonal effects.

 Play around and you'll see their magical

 qualities. Also check out next week's project 

as I've used them again in another different way.

I've done an art journal page for this week's

 project. Working in the journal I made

 previously. Yes book pages, glued together.

 There is two as one was a practice!

Instructions -

Paint two coats of white gesso all over page. Stamp

 images and heat emboss with clear detail powder.

 Stamp bird onto plain paper and cut out to make

 a mask for later.

Paint main images with Irresistible Texture sprays.

Leave to dry.

Meanwhile add some more stamping without

 embossing and paint again with Irresistible Sprays.

I didn't have a yellow so mixed some paint with

 glossy accents. It worked to a degree but not as

 good or easy to work with as the spray colours are.

Finally mask off the bird, flick with colour from

 the bottles let dry then lightly add some distress

 ink to page. Wipe over page with kitchen roll or

 cloth to remove any ink from spray coloured

 areas. See they resist. Lol!

Wow, thanks Dawn, an amazing project!

There is more than one way to use these 

sprays!

This is what Dawn used -

Irresistible Texture Sprays - 

Pear Tart, Sweet Plum, Lulu Lavender, Angel Pink, Lady Bug.

Stampendous Stamp - Bird Gears

Stampendous Stamp - Kaffee Klatsch 

PaperArtsy Stamps - JOFY 36

PaperArtsy Stamps - Lin Brown 24 and 23

Stazon Inks 

Versafine Ink - Black Onyx 

Stampendous - Clear Detail Embossing Powder

White Gesso

Well, hope this inspires you to have a 

play over the weekend!

I'll be back tomorrow with our next 

Weekly Challenge.

Jane x