Fanciful Plantation

Fanciful Plantation

Hallo Everyone!

Here we are, Saturday and the

last of our Zinskys and Infusions

(aka Fanciful Plantation)  It has

been quite a saga this week and

Hazel Harler is bringing it to a

tremendous finale

"The more I looked at the Zinski characters 

the more I loved them and wish that 

I could have got more of them on my project.

I decided to use my A4 journal for my project

 and started by masking the edge of the page.

 I sprinkled Infusions on the page and sprayed with water.

I kept adding more colours and spraying 

with water, drying the page after each colour.

 I splattered some white paint over the page.

I stamped some of the background images 

onto the page then removed the masking tape. 

I also stamped the images onto white

 card and coloured them with coloured pencils

I cut out the coloured images and 

glued them to the page, then I doodled lines round the 

edge with a black marker and wrote the words 

with coloured pencil and a black marker.

 A close up of some of the characters."

Supplies:

A large journal.
Infusions.
Water spray.
Paperartsy Zinski stamps.
Black Archival ink.
White acrylic paint.
Coloured pencils.
Fine line marker.

Thank you Hazel, a super cool project

don't you agree Everyone?

I shall most definitely be doing this

one.  I can't decide at the moment

whether to hide it away in my journal

or make a picture to hang on the wall

................decisions...............decisions.........

Leave you with that

Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Fanciful Plantation

Fanciful Plantation

Hi Everyone!

What is that phrase? ......

Another day another doleur

(no its not dollar as we all believe)

anyway, no doleur here today

grab yourself a comfy seat and

maybe a cuppa too ...........and

relax.............Claire Jackson is

with us today and she's brought

with her a super project:

"Sprinkle the jade Infusions onto a 

sheet of white tissue paper and spritz lightly 

with water. Don’t over spritz it as the colour

 will run and you are aiming for the 

lovely speckled effect. 

Leave to dry or you can speed it up with a heat tool. 

Repeat for the other Infusions colours

Stamp the flowers, birds and bird house images 

in black permanent ink onto white tissue paper 

and heat set to ensure that they don’t 

smudge later on.

Paint the back of the stamped images 

with white chalk finish paint and leave to dry

When the paint is dry colour the front 

of the images with soft pencils

Cut or tear around the images.

To get a soft edge which will blend in 

invisibly you can draw a line around the image 

with a paintbrush and water and

 gently tear the paper.

Make sure the vase is clean and grease free. 

You can pick something up in a charity shop

or this one was very cheap from a supermarket.

Tear the coloured tissue paper into strips 

of varying lengths. 

The next stage gets very sticky so it’s best 

to have all of the paper prepared at the start.

Using your fingers smear collage medium 

onto a small area of the vase. 

Place a strip of tissue paper on top and

 smear collage medium over it, gently massaging it

 into the paper so that the tissue becomes translucent 

and the colour remains visible.

Work around the top of the vase placing strips 

of black knight and violet storms. 

Vary the length that they extend downwards.

Working from the bottom up add strips of emerald 

and a bit jaded so that they interlace with the strips 

coming down.

 Make sure there is plenty of medium to 

soak in and turn the tissue translucent.

In the same manner, using the collage medium, 

place the images around the vase, 

posing the quirky birds in and around the bird houses.

Add white dots with the enamel accents and 

touch up the bird’s eyes with a white paint pen.

 Leave it to dry thoroughly so that the collage

 medium seals in the tissue paper.

 Use it as a decorative vase by day or

 a candle holder by night!"

Materials used:

White tissue paper

PaperArtsy Infusions: a bit jaded, black knight, emerald isle, violet storms

PaperArtsy ElenazinskiArt: ZA05, ZA08

Versafine: onyx black

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: snowflake

Collage Medium: matte

Ranger Enamel Accents: glacier white

Coloured pencils

White paint pen

Glass vase

Beautiful project Claire, thank you.

Love how this technique breathes new

life into a piece of glassware that has

outworn its original purpose

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Fanciful Plantation

Fanciful Plantation

Hi there!

Have a super quirky project

for you today - it is making

me smile all over my face......

Jane Castle is here to share

her take on this week's topic:

"Well what a wonderful title "Fanciful Plantation" 

it certainly got the creative juices flowing 

when I read it on the DT's list. 

Having made various cards of late I decided to 

go for something a little different this time!

The main part of the bag is made up from 

2 pieces of canvas measuring 20cm x 16cm each 

and then the handles and gusset are formed 

using 60% wool felt.

After cutting my canvas for the 2 sides of the bag 

I cut a piece of copier paper the same size and mapped 

out my design before spoiling any fabric 

I then proceeded to stamp the images onto the 

canvases using Archival inks.

Next came the fun part --- adding colour to the canvas. 

For this I used PaperArtsy Infusions, 

sprinkling a very small amount on at a time

 and spritzing with water. 

I gradually added very small amounts to areas 

and dabbing with kitchen paper when 

I had acheived the right colour blend. 

Once I was happy with the result I brushed the 

whole canvas with some matt medium. 

The 2 sides are slightly different 

but I think that adds to it's charm.

 I embellished the artwork with various beads 

before attaching the felt gusset. 

For this I cut a piece of felt 54cm x 6cm, 

rounded off the 2 bottom corners of the canvas 

and stitched the felt to one side

Before attaching the 2nd side I measured the

centre bottom of both the canvas and the felt 

so that everything was completely square. 

The opening around the top was lined with 

more felt and after this was machine stitched 

I added some hand embroidered blanket stitch 

using a matching embroidery thread.

The handles were made from 2 pieces of felt 

measuring 24cm x 5cm, folded in half 

lengthways and machine stitched. 

These were attached by hand as I was 

not sure whether my machine would have 

taken the 4 bulky layers.

The final touches ---- a wooden flower button 

sewn on the bag at the point where 

the handles join and a shrink plastic bird!

A hole was made in the plastic before 

it was shrunk so it could be attached with some thread.

The 2 sets of stamps used in this project are fab, 

everytime I get them out they make me smile 

and that's got to be good for you!"

 ITEMS USED:

PaperArtsy Infusions in Sage and Sunset Beach

PaperArtsy Stamp Sets ZA07 & ZA08

Shrink Plastic

Archival Ink in Jet Black & Cornflower Blue

Matt Medium

Artists Canvas

Wool Felt

Thank you Jane - love this bag

Now if you fancy a super quirky bag but

maybe don't have the needlework skills

to make this one; why not get a linen bag

from here and stamp on that?

Or, stamp the design on a piece of

canvas and attach that to a ready made

bag?  The possibilities are endless..........!

'Til tomorrow

Mickie xx