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

Street Art

Street Art

Hi there!

Loving the theme this week

today we have Claire Jackson

with a timely canvas 

"The street art theme lends itself to something 

a bit more grungy and masculine and the

Seth Apter stamps are perfect for this style. 

You could use this technique for a decorative canvas 

but I thought it would make a good clock background. 

Prime a 20x20cm canvas with snowflake paint 

and punch a hole in the centre

Use texture/embossing paste through a brick wall stencil. 

I put it in three main areas and left the centre clear.

Paint the canvas in chalk and buff paint. 

Make sure it’s completely dry before the next step

Place the stencil back in place and tape down. 

Use a stencil brush to stipple paint onto the raised areas. 

I used autumn fire, blood orange, claret and

chocolate pudding to build up a brickwork effect.

Don’t forget to extend the paint onto the sides of the canvas.

Gently rub a sponge with walnut stain and 

black soot Distress Ink over the brickwork 

so that it catches on the edges

Stamp the words onto tissue paper in yellow paint, 

outline with a black permanent pen 

and paint white paint on the back. 

Stamp other images in black ink and add 

paint to the back of the tissue. 

Tear around the images to create a soft edge.

Decide where the tissue images are to go 

and paint collage medium on the canvas. 

Stick the images on and add a layer of

 collage medium on top. 

Gently rub with a finger so that the

medium sinks in and the tissue becomes transparent.

Add more stamping in paint and darken the 

edges further with Distress Ink.

 I added in a little green to lift the colours. 

When it’s all dry add the clock mechanism."

Materials used:

Canvas
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint
Embossing paste
Wall stencil
PaperArtsy Seth Apter stamps: ESA01
Tissue paper
Archival Ink: jet black
Collage medium: matte
Distress Ink
Clock parts

Thank you Claire for a

great project - one for

the boys!  Tomboys even!

Who says the menfolk

are difficult to create for?

Send them here, we'll

show them how it's done!!

'till tomorrow

Mickie

Street Art

Street Art

Hallo Everyone!

Well it is March 1st today -

time continues to fly by 

at an alarming rate........

......that means we are all

busy people............enjoy!

Angela Radford is with us

today to start the new theme

with a fantastic card for

the star in your life......

"Hi all, I'm back to show you what I've been up to 

with these gorgeous Seth Apter stamps. 

To start the Masterboard for this project I began 

by brayering paint onto an A3 sheet of card.

You can see from this photo that you must be prepared 

to make some mess so make sure you have your 

workplace well protected.....or is it just me that's messy!?

I continued to apply the paint until satisfied with the coverage. 

I used a set designed by PaperArtsy for Seth Apter. 

I also mixed some of these colours to increase the range available

 Next I started stamping. 

It's important when stamping with acrylics to 

spread the paint evenly across the palette otherwise 

it will be too thick and you will not get a clear image

More stamping fun and here we are with the completed Masterboard.

 When I do projects like this I hate wasting the paint 

and I found myself with too much of the Mahogany 

on my palette so thought I would stamp it 

onto a clean sheet of card........

well this just changed my original idea for this card!

So to put all this together I began by creating a 
Z-fold card.

Cut all the pieces to size including some 

deep red card for matting and we're ready to go!

Started layering the pieces together, not bad for some waste paint!

 I completed this by adding some red brad stars 

from my stash and the TIME AFTER TIME stamp image 

from the same Seth Apter set. 

The sentiment is by Tim Holtz stamped with Mahogany distress ink. 

Hope you enjoyed watching me make this card. 

Happy crafting, Angela"

Products used:

Seth Apter Stamps - Time After Time.    Solar System.

White Card.

White Card Blanks.

Seth Apter Paint Set.

Tim Holtz Sentiment Stamps.

Red Card.

Yes, we did enjoy you making this card Angela

Just love it when you show us your change of

mind and the thought process behind it - just

goes to show there is no need to waste a thing

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx