Jane Davenport Face Acrylic Stamp

 

Hello!  I just realised today that we will soon be in the second half of this year.  How time flies.

Today’s post is short and sweet. I bought my first Jane Davenport stamp and couldn’t wait to try it out.

I wasn’t quite sure what to do, so paged through my journals to see what backgrounds I could find.  Sorry I didn’t take a pic of this background before I "dickied” it up, but here’s a similar one. 

 

These two backgrounds were created from left over paint that I brayered onto the pages.  On the lower right-hand side of this page you can see that I have added some Lime Green Dylusions paint through a stencil and also some magenta ink as well some more ink in various other places.

 

I placed the Jane Davenport stamp onto an acrylic block and applied Black Archival Ink then stamped the image onto the background.  The stamp didn’t stamp very well but I fixed that.

I applied some white gesso on the eye, eye-lid, nose and lip areas and let it dry. I smudged it slightly on the nose bridge area to blend it in.  I used a Ranger Salty Ocean Marker to colour in the iris, and Picked Raspberry Distress Crayon to colour in the lips

I went over the stamped image with a black Posca Pen to emphasise the eyes, the pupils, the crease in the eyelids, the eyebrows and eye lashes.  I added a little white using a Posca pen to the bottom lip area as well as adding a little definition to the irises.

I know it’s not a detailed project, but I love this face and will use it many times I’m sure.

 

Supplies:

Jane Davenport Mixed Media Acrylic Stamps - Single Face #376687

Black Archival Ink Pad

Ranger Salty Ocean distress Marker

Ranger Picked Raspberry Distress Crayon

Black and White Posca Pens

Dylusions Lime Green paint

Dylusions Bubblegum and Pure Sunshine Ink Sprays Spray

Stencils

 

Wildflowers – Mixed Media Canvas

 

Hello all!  Today’s project came about based on a combination of a quote I saw on the internet and an idea I have had for a while, but just didn’t have the right quote. BUT now I do, so here goes.

As I’ve said before I have so much stash hanging about and this year I aim to use it, well quite a lot of it, if not all.

I covered a blank MDF Unfinished Artist Panel 300 x 300 mm with Gesso and then added some torn strips of paper from an old dictionary using matt medium. Somehow it all got lost in the end, but it does add a little texture. Everything was covered with a nice layer of Gesso using the Ranger Craft Squeegee. [I really like this product - its my new toy]. When that was dry I used the Ranger Mixed Media die set {chicken wire] to cut myself a stencil. I love this set of dies and often use the cut outs as stencils.

 

 

 

At the same time I used a scrap of silver metal foil to cut two more die cuts and coloured them with Ranger Gold Distress Paint.

 

Some texture was added to the outside edges of the artist panel with Ranger Texture Paste and my home made stencil and left to dry.

Because I am impatient and I was off to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert, I needed that texture paste to be dry in a hurry so I helped it along with the heat gun.  I mixed up a little Dylusions Calypso Teal with some Liquitex Matt Medium and used a wet wipe to apply it to the artist panel. 

 

I mixed up some Ranger Ground Espresso Distress paint with Liquitex matt medium and using the bristle paint brush I scrubbed it in around the edges and wiped it back with a clean wet wipe.  This gives it a sort of grungy look which is what I was going for.

 

Some time back I did a class on polymer clay tiles and have a whole pile of left over clay so guess what, out it came.  This idea has been with me for a while and I was eager to see how it would turn out.  I cut enough white Sculpey Ultra White clay and as per the recommendations I prepped it by kneading it in my hands until it was soft and smooth. Then I rolled it out using a Sculpey Acrylic Clay Roller. The thicker the clay the heavier the flowers and heart.

To create the clay heart I drew a heart shape onto paper, cut it out then laid it over the clay and used a sharp cutting knife to cut the clay. I must say I was a little nervous but it worked like a charm.

Although I don’t often stamp with an acrylic block, this time I felt it was necessary so stuck the flower onto a small acrylic block and applied Black Archival Ink to the Echina flower stamp from the Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz - Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set - Flower Garden and not applying too much pressure, stamped out three flowers, then like the heart I carefully cut them out and baked them in the oven according to the instructions. Because the pieces were relatively thin they “warped” a little but I do not mind that at all; it adds to the charm of the piece.  

 

Now for the quote on the heart.  I did write it out onto a piece of tissue paper using a permanent black pen, but I’m still not happy with my “writing” skills, so took to my trusty computer and my huge stash of fonts to create the quote. I printed it onto a left over mop up page and then used my original template to cut it out and collage onto the clay heart. I ran my Distress Ground Espresso around the heart being careful as it could crack, then sprayed some fixative over it.

 

Using Potting Soil Archival Ink I chose a couple of flowers from the Tim Holtz Cling Mount Stamps - Wildflowers CMS253 and stamped them here and there on the background.

 

I added some beautiful drips with Daler Rowney Turquoise Artist Acrylic ink and a few circles using Ranger Gold Distress Paint.

 

I painted the clay flowers with Daler Rowney Brilliant Yellow Artist Acrylic ink and the left over Ranger Distress Ground Espresso and Liquitex matt medium.

I found a bit of cardboard cut it to size and ripped off some of the paper to reveal the corrugated board behind and used a stiff bristle brush to apply some White Gesso then distressed the edges and ran my Distress Ground Espresso ink pad around the edges.   I stuck strong double sided tape to the back.

 

I also found a bit of gauze in my stash and coloured it using a drop or three of Daler Rowney Turquoise Artist Acrylic ink mixed with a bit of water. I assembled the heart, the gauze and chicken wire onto the cardboard and glued them using Ranger Glossy Accents.

 

I attached it to the artist panel using strong double sided tape.

 

I had a few florist wires so bent them a little and attached them to the back of the flowers using glossy accents then glued the flowers onto the artist panel.

That's my project done for today.  I've hung it at the entrance to my craft room/office and it makes me smile each time I walk in or out and acts as a reminder to allow myself to grow.

Thank you for stopping by.

 

Supplies:
Blank MDF Unfinished Artist Panel 300 x 300 mm
White Gesso
Texture Paste
Tim Holtz Mixed Media Dies - chicken wire
Creative Craft Metal Roll 1mx43cm - Silver
Dylusions Calypso Teal Paint
Tim Holtz Distress Paint - Ground Espresso and Gold
Daler Rowney Turquoise and Brilliant Yellow, Artist Acrylic ink
Wet Wipes
Bristle Paint Brush
Scrap of Corrugated Board
Liquitex Matt Medium
Potting Soil and Black Archival Ink Pad
Holtz Cling Mount Stamps - Wildflowers CMS253

Sculpey Ultra White clay

Echina flower stamp from the Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz - Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set
Florist Wire

Ranger Gossy Accents
Glue Gun 

Double Sided Tape

 

Just a little bit Distressed - father's day

Hello everyone, 

Today’s post is "just a little bit distressed, meaning a little bit grungy, a little bit Tim Holtz inspired" but also a little bit stressed. Seems I got muddled with my phone and somehow clicked the video button instead of the photo button so I don't have many pics to share.  

I thought that seeing its Fathers’ Day next Sunday I’d do a large tag for a gift bag and a small gift card holder for those lucky Dads getting gift cards.

I cut my own 11 x 22 cm tag from a sheet of Daler-Rowney Aquafine Watercolour Paper Pad A4 – 16 sheets 300gsm. I bought a few Distress Oxide Inks a while back, namely broken china, fossilized amber, spiced marmalade and peeled paint, but haven’t used them yet so today’s the day I get to try them out.

I stamped Broken China and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink onto my craft mat a few times and spritzed with water until small bubbles appeared, [the more water the more diluted the ink becomes] then pressed my tag into it, squishing it around a bit to ensure as much of the tag as possible got covered. I heat set the tag and using a Ranger Foam applicator applied more Broken China and Fossilized Amber Distress Inks [not oxide this time], then used the Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer to create some water droplet effects.  The reason I used this sprayer is because if you squeeze the trigger only half way you can create these amazing droplets and drips of water. I went around the edge of the tag with Ground Espresso Distress Ink using a Ranger foam applicator.




There was still some ink left on the craft mat so I mopped it up with an already cut Gift card envelope and added a bit of vintage photo to the craft mat and repeated the process.

At this stage I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do, so I gathered a pile of stamps, Black and Potting Soil Archival Ink pads, some already stamped images from my stash and a few bits of ephemera, including a die cut camera strip.  I stamped a few images in both Potting Soil and Black Archival Ink.  I also had two small pieces of watercolour paper from my experiments with Distress Oxides. I die cut a metal tab using a piece of Creative Craft Metal Roll 1mx43cm - Silver as well as another tab from Kraft card stock.

Using Black Archival Ink I stamped the Postal Telegraph stamp across the top of the tag and used the “underground” stamp [not on a block] from the Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz: Steampunk set to randomly stamp the tag. 

I tried different arrangements from my pile of stash until I was happy, then glued everything down but not before using my date stamp to stamp a small ticket with next Sunday’s date. I also used a small Ranger paper clip that I found whilst rummaging.

I used a Spectrum Noir marker to colour the tab and stamped the word “DAD” in black Archival Ink and attached it to the top of the tag. It looks a bit wonky but its not, its just the effect of the light.

I used more or less the same technique on the Gift card envelope and used the Curiosity stamp from the Tim Holtz Steampunk Stamp Set to stamp some text. [There are lots of links to instructions for gift card envelopes on google]. I folded the gift card envelope and glued it down, I stamped the three men in top hats with black Archival Ink and heat embossed using clear embossing ink, then fussy cut the image. I used a few bits and pieces left over from the tag and a word from the Big Chat collection.

I hope these two projects will inspire you to make your own Father’s Day gift bag tags, and for those lucky Dads’ getting a gift card, make a gift card envelope.

Supplies Used:

Daler-Rowney Aquafine Watercolour Paper Pad A4 – 16 sheets 300gsm

Broken China and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink Pads

Broken China, Fossilized Amber and Ground Espresso Distress Ink Pads

Ranger Foam Applicator

Ranger Distress Sprayer

Jet Black and Potting Soil Archival Ink Pads

Spectrum Noir markers

Creative Craft Metal Roll 1mx43cm - Silver

Idea-ology Big Chat sticker pad

Ephemera

Stampers Anonymous Steampunk Stamp Set

Stampers Anonymous  Elements of Time Stamp Set

Stampers Anonymous Rubber Stamp Set - Odds and Ends
Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz - Paris Memoir Stamp Set
Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz Cling Mount Stamps: CuriositiesDate stamp
Ranger Washi Tape
Black Card Stock
Camera Strip Die [don't know where it came from now]

Mixed Media Notebook Cover

I’ve had this notebook in my stash for ages and ages.  I have to confess, more often than not I buy “cheapo” notebooks and decorate them to look like a million dollars.  It gives me such pleasure to see something beautiful emerge. 

I started off by carefully loosening the binding wires and removing them and the plastic cover. I cut a cardboard cover to the exact size of the plastic cover and covered the cardboard with a good layer of gesso.

Next I die cut a few die cuts using the Tim Holtz mixed media set using heavy white cardstock and glued the pieces onto the cardboard cover.  

I also added some pieces of Tim Holtz washi tape.

I applied a good layer of texture paste onto the cover using a palette knife.

I sort of patted the palette knife into the texture paste in some places and in other places I used the texture paste with a stencil and left it to dry.

I used a little gesso to knock the washi tape back a bit and to bring everything together but wiped it back a little off the bezel and the bee. 

 

A bezel, a bee and some small coins from my stash were covered with a coat of gesso. I filled the back of the bee with gesso and left it to dry.  This took quite a long time because of the thickness of the gesso behind the bee. I glued the bee onto the bezel using Glossy Accents and then glued the bezel onto the cover using texture paste. Lucky I didn’t use glossy accents and you’ll see why later.  I also glued three coins onto the left-hand side and one coin onto the bottom right hand side. This pic was taken before I moved them.

  

I mixed Turquoises and Warm Yellow Acrylic paint with Liquitex Matt Medium into a paint palette and applied it onto different areas of the cover in using a wet wipe.

True to the way I art, I felt there was something missing so I removed the bezel and added a black trellis die cut behind it, then glued everything down again. Much happier with this.

The bee got a coat of orange paint with black stripes and black legs.

At this stage I felt the cover looked a little dull, so I added some black script stamping here and there [I most often use script stamps without a block so that I can control how much text is stamped. Dry brushed some white highlights on the raised areas.

The white brought out all the texture and I’m really pleased I did this step. It changed the whole look. I also ran my Potting Soil Archival Ink pad around the edges.

I lay the original plastic cover onto the new decorated cover and traced the binding wire holes using a black marker then punched them using this punch. I have no idea what it is called. Hopefully soon I will learn how to photograph white paper.

I added a sentiment and sprayed the cover using Spray and Shine.

Last but not least I threaded the binding wires back through the holes and closed them by pressing them together with my fingers. They can easily be closed with a pair of flat jewellery pliers.

Now I’ve got a notebook to write down all my "arting" ideas.

Supplies:
Cardboard
White Gesso
Texture paste
Palette knife
Stencil
Jet Black and Potting Soil Archival Ink Pad
Script stamp
Liquitex Matt Medium
Heritage Turquoise and Warm Yellow Free Flow Acrylic paint 
Wet Wipes
Tim Holtz mixed media die set
Lattice die 
A bezel, a bee and some small coins
Large flat bristle paint brush
Sentiment