Use Your Wings by Amanda Pink

Hi Everyone

Welcome to my Thursday weekly post of Creativity!

This week I am sharing the project I created for That's Crafty's 3D Challenge feature that was in the June 2019 edition of Craft Stamper magazine.

Some of the team created a 3D project using  a That's Crafty! 4x6  inch MDF Chunkie. As with all That's Crafty! Surfaces this Chunkie is excellent quality and a dream to work with or on. It can be used in landscape or portrait format and can be displayed either hung on a wall or left freestanding.
We all used the Chunkie and any products that were available from the online shop so the creative possibilities were endless.
As usual a list of products used appears at the end of the post.  

I decided that I would alter my Chunkie by combining several of the design elements, techniques and colours that I have used in some of the projects I have shared here and on my blog previously.

So after assembling and painting the Chunkie with black acrylic paint I created a masterboard which I used to cover the front back and all sides of the Chunkie.
 I adhered an initial layer of tissue tape to mixed media paper, then added colour using That's Crafty! multi-purpose paints and white gesso after which I introduced some ink stamping as well as some heat embossed stamping using Baked Texture embossing powders.
Heres a couple of close ups of the detail and texture created!  

The focal feature is made up of a few parts - a couple of crackled die cuts, the outer one embellished with hex nuts, a That's Crafty! ATCoin covered with a piece from the masterboard and a stamped and painted butterfly. 

I manipulated the wings of the butterfly to add a sense of movement and even more dimension to the already dimensional chunkie 

I also added a Tim Holtz Ideology game spinner to the butterflies thorax. 

The four corners of the front of the Chunkie were embellished with hex nuts 

and a Tim Holtz Quote chip mounted and 'roughed up' with gesso provided the title.

I kept the back 'embellishment free' as a great feature of That's Crafty's Chunkie's (with the exception of  the ATC Chunkie) is that the back panel has a couple of  press out hole's that enable you to hang your art on the wall if you so wish.  As the holes are 'press out' you simply seal them with a touch of adhesive if you want your Chunkie to be freestanding. That's a win/win in my book and a big plus point for the overall design.

Products used:

That's Crafty! Surfaces 4x6 MDF Chunkie

That's Crafty! Surfaces ATCoins
Mixed Media Paper
PaperArtsy Smoothy White Stamping Card
Black Acrylic Paint.
That's Crafty White Gesso
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints: Midnight, Teal, Lime
DecoArtMedia Fluid: Carbon Black
DecoArt Crackle Paste
DecoArt Matte Medium
Emerald Creek/Seth Apter Baked Textures: White Cloud from the Neutrals Kit 
Tsukineko Versamark stamp pad
Archival Ink: Jet Black, Cobalt
That's Crafty! All Purpose Adhesive
Prima Stamps designed by Finnabair: 'Don't Forget to Fly'
PaperArtsy Eclectica ESA04 designed by Seth Apter.
PaperArtsy Eclectica ECF04 designed by Courtney Franich
Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz Stamps: Ultimate Grunge CM075
SpellBinders die designed by Seth Apter: Steering Wheel, Drip Drop
Tim Holtz Ideology: Tissue Tape, Game Spinners, Quote Chip
Palette Knife
Ranger Cut n Dry Foam
Stamping Platform

Paper Trimmer
Hex Nuts

I hope you have enjoyed your time here with me today and that maybe I have offered some creative 'Chunkie Art' ' inspiration.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and for any kind words you leave for my creativity. 

I really appreciate both very much .

Have a lovely week and hope to see you again next week... same time, same place. 

Take Care

Amanda

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(ink-a-pink)