Fragile by Amanda Southern

I have a wall hanging for you this week taking my inspiration from the style and products of mixed media artist Seth Apter. Seth was recently in the UK taking workshops, that I would have loved to attend, however next time hopefully.

Here’s What I Did:-

I started with a That’s Crafty! MDF panel 4.5” x 9” (I love this size) and I first added, using gel medium, lots of magazine headlines and text that I had cut out. I then added a band of texture at the top using crumpled bandage and another band of texture using crumpled tissue paper a third of the way down the panel, again applied with gel medium. 

Once that was all dry I randomly applied black paint, totally covering the bands of texture but randomly over the magazine cut outs as I wanted the text to show through. I then stamped over the magazine cut outs with a texture stamp adding stamped scratches. Then I roughly added crackle paste in areas of the panel.

The next stage was to just keep layering up translucent paints till I was happy with how it looked.

Onto a manila tag I added Distress paints to match the panel as I wanted this to be opaque, the final layer on the tag was brayed for a more grunged look. I then die cut, one of Seths new dies - ‘Pathways’, from my painted tag. The manila card is really strong for this. On another piece of the painted tag I stamped and heat embossed one of Seth’s word circles, these come with their own die to cut them out perfectly. The 3^rd piece to add was a That’s Crafty! small MDF heart, painted red, stamped with a texture stamp and lightly brayered on some black paint. I added a couple of x’s labels. With a final piece of my tag I stamped and heat embossed the word Fragile. I heat embossed both with red embossing power but dulled down the colour by smearing black paint on with my finger.

Here you can see the pieces added to the panel

I felt it still needed more. I had a piece of chicken wire that I had rusted up with rusting powder so cut some of that up and added to the panel with a staple gun, more texture added.

No I still wasn’t happy I needed to add a little contrast of colour and that colour was Broken China Distress paint applied with my finger in areas, with the edge of a credit card and a lid to create a couple of circles. Also some flicks of red mister paint.

Now I was happy with it and walked away……………

What I Used:-

That’s Crafty! Surfaces MDF Panel 4.5” x 9”

That’s Crafty! Surfaces Small MDF Hearts

Spellbinders Seth Apter Die - Pathways

Spellbinders Seth Apter Stamp and Die Set – Word Circles 2

Stampendous Andy Skinner Stamps – Industrial

Manila Tags Size 8

PaperArtsy Fresco Paints

Distress Paints

DecoArt Matte Medium

DecoArt Crackle Paste

DecoArt Mister – Red

Red Embossing Powder

Rusting Powder

Tim Holtz Label Letters

Magazine Slogans Cut Out

Bandages

Tissue Paper

Credit card and bottle lid for mark making

Fragile stamp from my stash

Hope you like it and see you next Tuesday

Love

Amanda X