That's Crafty!: February 2020

Hello!

This week I'm very pleased to share with you the artist trading block that I created as a sample for the Hochanda shows featuring the gorgeous new Language of Trees stamp sets designed by Lynne which I've fallen in love with.

Step by Step:

I began by searching through my ever useful stash of ink spray overflow and mop up papers, some of which have stencil clean off on them too and found a lovely nature colour one which I cut into 5 pieces which you can see below.

I then decided to add some more interest with stencilling and used the gorgeous new Leaf Branches A4 stencil on 3 of the pieces with Green Multi Surface Paint to add just a touch of pattern. For the remaining 2 pieces I used the new and fabulous Hex Net Stencil with Gold Multi Surface Paint and you can see the transformed sections below.

I next stamped trees from Lynne's absolutely gorgeous new stamp designs on 4 of the pieces, stamping the tree with bent branches on the golden ones and the more upright tree on the other 2 green ones, using a deep brown ink.

I assembled my atblock and painted the edges with Metallic Green Multi Surface Paint. I then distressed the edges of my 5 panels with an emery board and glued them in place, adding the plain one on top.

I took a greyboard leaf from my bits box which had been dipped in a mix of Multi Surface Paints for an earlier project - Copper, Orange, Green and Chestnut Brown. I used a texture stamp on top with the brown ink to add a leaf vein effect and glued this on the top.

I then stamped a variety of text from the trees stamp set on scraps of overflow paper, cutting them into tiles and inking the edges. I added these to my cube to finish.

Supplies:

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - The Language of Trees Set 2 by Lynne Moncrieff
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Textures Collection Set 2
That's Crafty! A4 Stencil - TC40005 Hex Net
That's Crafty! A4 Stencil - TC40006 Leaf Branches
That's Crafty! MDF Surfaces - ATBlock from a set
That's Crafty! Bits & Pieces Greyboard - Leaves
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints
That's Crafty! Flat Matte Sprays
VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves Ink
That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Glue

Have a great weekend and see you next week.

Fliss x

Hello!

This week I'm sharing a double page spread from my A4 journal which is all about making printed papers your own with the use of a little paint, some stencils and stamping.

Step by Step

I chose a couple of the gorgeous new papers from the darks and brights paper pack designed by Melina, these being in roughly similar colour tones.

As the one with the flowers on is quite busy, I had to think how I could add more to it without covering too much up. After a look through my stamp collection, I decided on the gorgeous quirky bird from one of Melina's sets and stamped her on smooth white cartridge paper, heat embossing the image with clear powder. I then coloured her with flat matte sprays, using saffron, orange and tomato.

The next step was to make the other page which is mostly pink and blue, go with the floral one a bit more. I began by using the new A4 numbers stencil, first with white, followed up with mustard yellow, orange and a touch of bright red, layering up the colours to give the numbers a 3D look. I cut out the large flower from one of the mixed sheets in the set and glued this on the left hand side.

I then set about adding a few details to both pages to draw them together. As the page with the bird added had areas of black detail, I took a texture stamp and added stamping around the edges with black ink, adding a touch to the bird page as well. I then repeated the stamping with orange ink until I was happy with the effect.

I next took some grey cardstock from my stash and first stencilled the attitude text with black gesso, adding white stitching detail around the edges with a Posca pen. I then stamped further text from the bird stamp set and selected words from the new lots of words stamp set and BE using the new alphabet set. I cut all the words out and edged them with the white pen.

I glued everything in place as shown in the photo to finish off.

Supplies:

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Bird by Melina Dahl
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Lots of Words
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Alphabet
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Textures Collection Set 1
That's Crafty! Surfaces A4 MDF Greyboard Journal
That's Crafty! A4 Stencil - TC40007 Numbers
That's Crafty! A4 Stencil - TC40008 Attitude is Everything
That's Crafty! A4 Paper Pack - Darks and Brights
That's Crafty! Black Gesso
That's Crafty! Flat Matte Sprays - Orange, Saffron, Tomato
VersaFine Ink - Onyx Black
VersaFine Clair Ink - Summertime
Clear Embossing Powder
White Posca Pen
Grey Card

Have a great weekend and see you next week.

Fliss x

Hi Everyone

Welcome to my Thursday weekly DT post.

This week I have a art panel/card to share with you that I have created by mono printing with a stencil and Distress Oxide inks. The stencil I have used is by PaperArtsy designed by Tracy Scott.

There is really nothing complicated about the creative process so whether you are a beginner or a well- seasoned crafter you could easily create something similar yourself.

Monoprinting was the key with this one as it not only created the stencil design image but it also created the background colour too. There were two layers of mono printing:

Layer 1: Ink the reverse of the stencil with the ink of your choice. I used 2 colours of Distress Oxide Inks: Mustard Seed and Carved Pumpkin.

Spritz the inks with water, flip the stencil and press down onto a precut panel of card.

Press over the unlinked side of the stencil with a cloth to help transfer the ink to the card.

Lift to reveal an image of the stencil design aswell as some background colour.

Dry with a heat gun or leave to air dry.

Layer 2: Repeat the process using a darker ink of your choice to help give some definition to the first coloured layer of mono printing. I used Black Soot Distress Ink.

I further defined the monoprinted design with the help of a black fineliner pen and blended just a touch of the coloured oxides into the petals/ leaves.

As I wanted the centre of the monoprinted design to have just a touch of dimension I repeated all of the above using the central part of the stencil only.

To the background I added a touch of text stamping using a mini Text stamp by PaperArtsy. I used a grey Distress archival ink for this to keep the stamping subtle and more 'suggested' than obvious.