Hello Crafters!


Tuesday has come around again and it is my turn for the blog post and today I have a pretty little canvas using parchment to stamp onto.

I started off with a hard board canvas 8" x 6" and used the smooth That's Crafty! Texture Paste through the Floral Background Dinky stencil. When this was dry I coloured the background using a few different coloured Distress Oxides and then sponged over with the Pearl paint from the That's Crafty! Multi-Surface Paints. This gave a lovely gloss finish to the background.

I then went on to stamp the butterflies and the leaves and these were stamped onto parchment paper and then embossed with a glitter embossing powder to bring in a little sparkle. I also used the lace border stamp onto parchment to pop through the middle of the design to break up the background.
I cut out all the elements and then adhered them to the canvas. A few pearl flowers dotted around and some stamped words finish off this pretty little project.

I hope that you like it and that it has given you a little inspiration.

Bye for now
Jo :)

Products used:

That's Crafty! Texture Paste
That's Crafty! Dinky Stencil - Floral Background
Distress Oxide Ink Pads
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paint - Pearl
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Textures Collection Set 3

Hello
I was once again inspired by nature for this Mixed Media panel. As always, I have added my little bits of this and that and have also incorporated found elements as well as beeswax. This panel can easily be made without beeswax. So you might ask me, why did I take the trouble to use beeswax?! I wanted to show how the That's Crafty! MDF Surfaces will allow you to work with a variety of media. This panel had Gesso, Infusions which were very generously misted with water, dried with heat tool, stamping and then beeswax. They are a substrate which any Mixed Media artist would confidentially create on.


Supplies

That's Crafty! Surfaces MDF Panels - Pack of 3 - 4.5x9
That's Crafty! Surfaces MDF Tags Pack of 6 - #8
PaperArtsy Infusions: Royal Blood, Sleight Blue
PaperArtsy Eclectica Designed by Lin Brown ELB30
PaperArtsy Eclectica Designed by Alison Bomber EAB03
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Textures Collection Set 3
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Lynne's Affirmations Set 3
Sponge Applicator Brush
Heat Gun (That's Crafty! stock a Ranger Heat Tool)
Archival Ink Pad Designer Series Watering Can
Memento Ink Pad Tuxedo Black
Gel Medium
Gesso
Craft Iron
Craft Mat (That's Crafty! stock one from Woodware)
Mister Bottle
Extras: Beeswax, Melt Pot, Stained Teabag, Twig, Eco Dyed Nettle Yarn, Washer

Instructions

Randomly apply Gesso to both MDF panels, ensuring some of the MDF peeks through.Sprinkle Infusions onto upper area of panel and tag, generously misting with water. Leave to dry or heat with heat tool. 

Stamp ELB stamp  repeatedly onto panel and also onto tag, checking the alignment of the grasses for when the tag will be adhered to the panel. Continue stamping, this time with the Affirmations stamp "These wings belong to me". On upper left corner of panel, stamp script from Textures Collection.

At this stage, I melted beeswax pellets in the Melt Pot and coated the panel and tag with beeswax but as I said in the intro, it isn't a requirement.




For the butterfly focal, I stamped the butterfly from Textures Collection onto two separate pieces of dried, stained teabag paper. The first image was laid onto the tag and coated with beeswax. Allowing the beeswax to cool, I then placed the second stamped image directly over the first and this time, only applied beeswax to the upper edge, sealing it to the tag but allowing the stamped image to be lifted so bottom image can be viewed.

If not working with beeswax, Gel Medium could be substituted.


Stamp the wonderful PaperArtsy EAB quote onto found paper, this was a scrap of eco dyed rice paper. As for the upper butterfly image, apply thin line of beeswax along top edge of stamped quote.
Below the stamped quote you will see some extra texture, this was simply some torn pieces of the teabag which I dipped into beeswax and laid onto the tag.


Final touches, wrap nettle yarn around off-cut from tree branch, adhering to top of panel. Adhere the tag to panel, this can be done with melted beeswax or Gel Medium. 

Thank You for your visit and just one final note, That's Crafty have MDF panels in varying sizes and the MDF Tags likewise come in various sizes, they are worth taking a look at.

Wishes
Lynne

Hi everyone,

It's Donna here today with a tag featuring one of the Donna's Girls Collection...this is Cara :)

Hello everyone, I have another card to share this week, this one very mixed media and my favourite of those I created for the One Day Special last December. I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Here's what I did:

I first made my background with a piece of mixed media paper which I painted with a dusky pink shade made by mixing magenta, orange and white together - this may seem strange but the orange really helps to achieve a more antique shade of pink.

I then used the gorgeous mandala stencil with teal and white to add a pattern in the centre of the pink paper. I stamped script in the corners with Archival Potting Soil ink for added interest.

I next used a white/greyboard artist trading card to make a background panel for the mannequin I intended to add. I painted the panel with teal, yellow and white then used the mandala stencil again with a slightly deeper shade of dusky pink to add the pattern.

I used the mannequin stencil on mixed media paper with teal and chestnut brown paints to create the shape and then cut the resulting image out. I rounded it out with a large embossing ball tool and tweaked the colours a little to add more life to the shape. I then added it to the panel with silicone glue for depth.

Supplies used:

That's Crafty! Surfaces - White/Greyboard Artist Trading Card
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Sets - Textures Collection Set 3, Lynne's Affirmations Set 6
That's Crafty! 8 x 8 Stencil - TC8014 Mandala
That's Crafty! Mini Stencil - MS023 Mannequin
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints
Ranger Archival Ink - Potting Soil, Plum, Fern Green
Ranger Dye Ink - Carribean Coast
Embossing Ink
Gold Detail Embossing Powder
Gems
Mixed Media Paper
Other - Large embossing ball tool, pinking shears, silicone glue

Hello Again! 

I would like to share my latest make for the That's Crafty Design Team blog and it is a card which includes several of the stamps from the That's Crafty Clear Stamp set - Textures Collection set 3 which I am really loving using.

I started with the background which was created using the script stamp inked up with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink and randomly stamped across cardstock.  I added some detail and dimension using the That's Crafty hole in the wall mask using the Texture sand paste which I have fallen in love with! 

I then created the other layer of the backdrop using a great little crafty item lollypop sticks! I laid these down in an adhoc fence layout and painted them firstly with black gesso and then dry brushed over with white gesso and some Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink.  The highlight the fencing idea I edged the wood with some gold metallic paint from the Multi-Surface paint collection. 

To add the main detail I started with stamping 3 leaves from the stamp set and cut them out.  I used some paper flowers to embellish. The main focus is the very pretty butterfly which I stamped and coloured and topped with glossy accents.

I hope that you like the project and the layout, let me know what you think! 

Bye for now

Jo xx

I used:

That's Crafty Clear Stamp set - Textures Collection set 3

Hole in the Wall Mask - TC066

That's Crafty - Sand Texture Paste

Distress Oxide Ink - Vintage Photo

Multi-surface paint - Antique Gold

String

Glossy Accents

Paper Flowers from stash

Lolly pop sticks

Hi everyone,

It's Donna here today with something a little different from me ;)



What I Did:

As always I started with a sheet of my beloved Strathmore Mixed Media paper as I knew I was going to use a lot of water for this.

Using just a standard acrylic stamping block I swiped over a blue Distress Oxide, spritzed with water and turned it over to 'stamp' on the paper, repeating this 4 times. This gives a nice soft feel to the background.

Using a stamp from a That's Crafty! textures set I stamped that on the middle of the background using a brown Distress Oxide and then I spritzed that image liberally with water too and allowed the colours to mingle a little bit to get that 'hazy' effect as I didn't want the background to dominate the composition.

A stitched effect stamp from the Claire stamp set was added in a green Archival ink, then I added a little circle cut from a Gelli print over which I adhered a little torn piece of text from a vintage French book.

The really textured part is a wide lolly stick which was liberally coated with That's Crafty! sand paste and painted with a mixture of paints including multi surface and Decoart paints.

All that was adhered onto the background which I put to one side while I stamped the dragonfly from the Cara set onto a scrap of Strathmore paper and coloured in with diluted Mermaid markers, fussy cut out and adhere on top of the textured lolly stick.

The finishing touch was to add a couple of sentiments and a number from Tim Holtz Clippings and then to mount the whole piece onto Kraft card.

I'm really pleased with the way it turned out and and it was also a good way to use up little bits and pieces that are floating around on your craft table!

Supplies Used:

That's Crafty! Textures Stamp Set - Set 4
That's Crafty! Stamp Sets - Donna's Girls Collection - Cara and Claire
That's Crafty! - Sand Texture Paste
That's Crafty! - Multi Surface Paints
Decoart - Fluid Acrylic Paints
Strathmore Mixed Media Pad
Distress Oxides
Jane Davenport - Mermaid Markers
Kraftcard
Ranger Archival - Ink Pads
Tim Holtz - Clippings Stickers

Hope you like it
Donna xx

Hello everyone, my steampunk side has come out to play again this week with a very mixed media textured art panel featuring the lovely Ella, one of Donna's gorgeous new girls, as I was unable to resist her as soon as I saw her.

Here's what I did:

I took an 8 x 8 MDF panel and added a pattern roughly all around the edges with texture paste and the new cogs corner mini stencil. You have to be a little careful doing this, lifting up the edges of the stencil a bit in order to make sure the stencil doesn't end up in the areas already given a pattern. If you prefer, you can wait until the texture paste is nearly dry but I didn't bother as I wanted a grungy look!

I then used a palette knife and my fingers (very messy) to spread some texture sand paste in the areas not covered with cog pattern to add yet more lovely texture.

The next step is very messy but great fun as I added puddles of several shimmer and metallic paints (listed below) to a plate and used my fingers to paint the textured panel. Once the surface was covered, I let it dry then picked out the edges of the cogs with a tiny amount of dry brushed black to make the pattern pop more.

I chose a number of greyboard cogs and nuts together with a feather and a couple of butterflies and decided on the placement around the outer areas of the panel. I swirled several paints in shades of blue, gold and copper on the plate and coloured the embellishments by dipping them in the paint and drying them with a heat gun - this gives lovely textured bubbles to the surface.

White Mixed Media Paper
Palette Knife - I used my trusty Ranger Black Palette Knife Set
Black Sharpie Pen
Tim Holtz Clippings Stickers
Silicone Glue