Street Art

Street Art

Hi there!

Hope your week is on track.

I'm supposed to be doing some

art homework today..........who

would have thought that at this

stage in my life I would be back

to homework!  Haha!

Anyway, here is Jane Castle with

a very nice arty page in her new

journal.......

 "I made myself a promise this year to start 

an Art Journal and a Scrap Book. Well the year is 

trundling  along at a pace so I felt I'd better do something 

about one at least so here is my very first page 

of my very first art journal!

I began by applying various layers of Fresco paints 

with a brayer in Wisteria, Blush, Hint of Mint and Stone.

Then once I was happy with the combination added 

some Grunge Paste through a TCW stencil.

This was left to completely dry before applying some 

DI in Weathered Wood to the grunge paste with my finger.

The quote from a PaperArtsy stamp set was then added 

using Denim Adirondack ink. 

I felt this was a very apt quote! 

The dots were stamped in DI Peeled Paint.

Next onto the main stamped images, 

for this I used a selection from Eclectica ETS01. 

As I only wanted the stem part of one stamp I masked 

the unwanted part with a post-it note before inking.

This was removed before stamping onto my page. 

The circle stamp which I chose for my 'Flower Head' 

was marked on the back of the stamp to hi-light the point 

where the 'Stem' and 'Flower' would meet. 

The 3 main images were heat embossed with clear EP.

The circles were then added to the edges and 

using a fine nibbed black pen I added some connecting 

lines and swirls.

Now for a splash of colour......... 

using Claret, Pumpkin Soup, Chartreuse and Autumn Fire 

all transluscent Fresco paints 

and a very fine paint brush I began to fill in various 

sections/segments. 

I finished with a few dots of Metallic Glaze 

on some of the tiny dots.

This was left for a couple of hours to thoroughly dry 

before adding some glossy accents to one section of 

yellow on each of the 3 main images. 

When I went back to take the final pictures I was amazed 

that the Glossy Accents had started to crack ---- 

now I don't know if that was because it's an old bottle 

perhaps 5yrs maybe more 

or that my craft room is outside and it may have 

got too cold for it overnight? 

If you know what caused the cracking please leave 

a message below as I am intrigued"

Material List

Fresco Chalk Paints

PaperArtsy Stamp Sets ETS01, ESN03, EEV06

TCW Mini Raven Mosaic Stencil

PaperArtsy Grunge Paste

Distress Inks

Embossing Powder

Ranger Glossy Accents

Fresco Metallic Glaze

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Adirondack Ink 

Uni-pin Fine Pigment Pen

Thank you Jane for sharing your

new journal with us.  We will look

forward to seeing more of it.......

Have been pondering on your dilemma

with the Glossy Accents - I have some of

equal vintage and it is fine so over to you

followers, any ideas?

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Buildings

Buldings

Hi Everyone!

Pinch and a punch its the 

first of the month...........

Expect you all remember

that one from your schooldays!

We start the month with a new

theme and Claire Jackson has

a fabulous project for us:

Cut a piece of white card 4”x6”. 

Stamp and emboss the image with black detail embossing powder

Stamp the image on a sticky note or masking paper 

and cut out to make a mask.

Don’t forget to cut away under the bridge and inside the wheel. 

Cover the image with the mask.

Starting an inch from the bottom colour with Distress Ink in

 barn door, wild honey, scattered straw, peacock feathers and faded jeans.

Leave the paper mask in place. 

Tape in place the concentric circles stencil and 

gently dab white acrylic paint through the holes. 

Remove the stencil and paper mask gently and 

dry the paint with a heat tool. 

Wipe any excess paint from the paper mask and put back in place. 

Clean the stencil and put back. 

It doesn’t matter if the stencil is a millimetre out 

as some of the white will show through 

which helps to lift the background

With the stencil in place rub red cherry, mango, banana and margarita mix 

Gelatos over the holes and blend in with a baby wipe. 

Carefully lift off the stencil and the mask

Add shading with faded jeans ink to the edges. 

Stamp, cut out and mount the wording.

With a pale grey marker add a shadow along the base 

of the buildings and in some of the recesses between buildings. 

Highlight some of the windows with red, orange or yellow marker

I have a lot of family and friends living overseas 

and this would make a great greetings card; 

however in this case this card is destined to contain 

theatre tickets for an evening out in town.

Supplies:

White card

Carabelle Studio cling rubber stamp: London

Carabelle Studio template: concentric circles

Versafine ink: onyx black

Black embossing powder:

Distress Ink: wild honey, scattered straw, peacock feathers, faded jeans

PaperArtsy Fresco finish paint: snowflake

Faber-Castell Gelatos

Promarkers

What a fabulous card to present

as a Gift Card?!  Thank you Claire

for starting the month off with a bang....

or should I be saying punch? ........!!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Bokeh

Bokeh

Hallo Everyone!

Hope you are all well and

seasonal bug free................

everywhere I go it seems

that everyone is coughing and

sneezing.................might have

to consider living in quarantine

for the time being ............

Today's Bokeh project is from

Craftyfield, who has a different

take on the technique:

" I started by applying Distress inks to my Kraft tag. 

Some of the lighter colours do not show much at this stage 

but will be revealed in the next stage...

To create the Bokeh effect I have designed my own stencil, 

of course you can use one of the many circles designs available 

but I'm a control freak... and wanted to create the circles one at a time. 

To cut your own, use either circle dies or a circle cutter as I did.

The traditional way to create the Bokeh effect 

is to use white pigment ink but I fancied trying it

 with a Distress Crayon first.

 I stencilled 2 circles with a white Distress crayon to see the results. 

I continued with the pigment ink as I found it easier to 

control the different levels of opacity of the circles.

For the stamping I used the Paper Artsy flowers with Versafine black 

and embossed them in clear powder. T

he sentiment by Kaisercraft is also stamped with Versafine but not embossed.

You can see my embossing powder container (ex take away dish) in which I decant my pot. 

Not much left at the moment!

I pulled out my Gelatos and coloured a circle around the flower heads 

using a stencil, to echo the Bokeh circles.

Quite simple to make, although it did take me a long time 

to stencil all those circles one by one! 

The most difficult part is to know when to stop 

and I hope I haven't gone overboard!"

Supplies:

Ranger Kraft Tag No10:

Distress Inks: 

Circle cutter:

Distress Crayons set 3:

Kaisercraft Love This 

E3 Kay Carley 02:

Versafine Black:

Clear Embossing powder:

Mix & Match Designing with Gelatos Set:

No, Craftyfield you haven't gone overboard - 

it is a super tag.  I love the technique you

used too, not to mention cutting your own

stencil!

I quite often cut my own stencil's too and I use  

a purpose made product called Punch it And Die

"Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Greetings to all!

Claire Jackson is with us again

today with a beautiful Christmas card

Here she is to talk us through it:

Stamp and emboss the reindeer in gold 

on 3 different patterned papers and a plain cream paper

Cut a piece of card 5” square and stamp the wreath 

in pine needles Distress Ink. 

Dust the card with an anti static bag / talc 

to make sure the ink is completely dry before stamping 

and embossing the reindeer in gold over the top

Squish the evergreen bough ink onto a craft mat 

and with a water brush use it to colour the leaves. 

Colour the berries with cardinal red ProMarker

Cut sections from each of the different papers 

and use them to piece together over the reindeer, 

sticking them down with gel medium or clear glue.

Add a shadow around the reindeer with grey ProMarker. 

Add glitter glue to the berries and small gems

 to the saddle and eye

 To mount the reindeer I found some green patterned paper 

and stamped over it with a Card-Io branch in pine needles ink 

to tie it in to the main image.

Materials used:

Lindsay Mason Zentangle Clear Stamp: zendoodle reindeer ready to go
Woodware clear stamp: sketchy wreath 
Card-io clear stamp: greenery 1
Versafine: onyx black
Distress Ink: pine needles, evergreen bough
Multi medium matte
ProMarkers: cardinal red, warm grey 2
Stickles glitter glue: cranberry, distress fired brick
Gems

 Merry Christmas everyone and I wish 2017 brings you good health and happiness

 and of course many hours of happy crafting.

Thank you Claire

We all wish you a Merry Christmas too

and look forward to more crafty goodness

in 2017

Mickie xx