Lettering week - Gio

Hi, 
Gio is with us today for some lettering fun using stencils and stamps this time altering a jigsaw puzzle. A fun way to use up those jigsaw puzzles your kids don't use any more. She also made a pair of earrings with spare jigsaw pieces.
Gio used the Chip Block "leftover" as a stencil: A clever way to use your alpha dies other than just use the cut letters. She also used the Crafters Workshop stencil and the Stampendous Small Alpha stamps.

I covered the whole jigsaw with several layers of Pebeo gesso. I cut the alphabet using the Tim Holtz Sizzlits Decorative Strip Alphabet Die - Chip Block and the cutting machine and I used the leftovers as a stencil with different colours of PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints, mixing and spreading them with a little sponge. I wrote the sentiment using the Crafters Workshop template - Mixed-up alpha and a permanent black marker. I stamped randomly using several colours of Archival ink and the IndigoBlu rubber stamps: Circle dot background and the Stampendous Small Typewriter Alphabet.

Tip: I used the Stampendous Small Typewriter Alphabet plate as a background stamps, leaving all the letters in place, and using the acetate as a thin acrylic block.

I laid the Tando Masks - Andy Skinner: 6x6 Hippy Chick on the jigsaw and I covered the opening with glue, then I poured different colours of micro beads leaving the stencil in place.

I added the wire, to hang the jigsaw, through two eyelets, embellished with some glass beads. 

For the earrings: I glued the alphabet chipboards cut with the Decorative Strip Alphabet Die - Chip Block to two jigsaw pieces. When dry I gessoed them and I stencilled them with different colours of PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints. I stamped randomly using several colours of Archival ink and the IndigoBlu rubber stamps: Circle dot background. I added the Fish hook Earwire.

Gio used

Stampendous Small Typewriter Alphabet

Tim Holtz Sizzlits Decorative Strip Alphabet Die - Chip Block 

Pebeo Studio acrylic auxiliaries: Gesso 250 ml 

Pebeo Studio acrylic auxiliaries: Studio matte gel 

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints  

The Crafters Workshop template - Mixed-up alpha 

IndigoBlu rubber stamps: Circle dot background 

Archival ink pads 

Tando Masks - Andy Skinner: 6x6 Hippy Chick  

Assorted micro beads 

Glass beads 

Fish hook Earwire: silver plate 

See you tomorrow