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A dried stalk of lavender, dry brushed with white Gesso.

One of the EAB stamps, partially inked up with Jet Black ink and stamped onto scrap painted cardstock before adhering to a scrap piece of CraftyBoard (waste from Journal Kit), slightly curving before adhering over the lavender stalk. 

To embellish the tag...

Once it was dry, I set about giving it the rusty treatment with several shades of Multi Surface Paints which were dabbed on rather than brushed. I started with Grey, followed by Orange, then Chestnut Brown, Teal and Green. I then dry brushed Antique Gold on the textured areas.

I wrapped some rusty wire around the top and bottom of the stem section of the key and glued the butterflies on going up the key to the top.

 Hi Everyone 

I have a 'useful' project to share with you today that I have created using some of That's Crafty's fabulous MDF surfaces and stamps. 

The desk tidy box/cube is a That's Crafty! MDF ATB. I used the 3 x 3 inch. The ATB's come flat packed so can be assembled to suit whatever it is you are creating. As I was making a desk tidy I wanted the ATB to be 'open topped' so I only used 5 of the ATB panels. The panels interlock together as you can see in the photo below so assembling is easy and That's Crafty! Multi-Purpose Adhesive makes for strong adhesion in no time at all. 

 

I painted the interior and exterior walls of my open ATB with a couple of coats of black acrylic paint and set aside to dry while I created the panels I used to cover the exterior walls. 

For these I painted a piece of A4 mixed media paper with Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylics: Ruby, Cheddar, Lemon. I applied the colours one at a time using both brushes and sponge to gradually build up layers, depth and variation of colour.

The painted paper was then cut into 4 panels to fit the 4 walls of the desk tidy. 

Each of the panels was stamped and embossed using a stamp from That's Crafty's 'Texture 2' stamp set with Seth Apter's 'Eclipse' Baked Velvet Embossing powders.

Here's a close up of the embossed stamping!!

To finish the 4 panels I frame the stamped embossing with some Tim Holtz 'Halloween Trim Tapes.' 

The 4 panels were  adhered to the exterior walls of my painted desk tidy and each panel was embellished with a mounted butterfly.  

 The butterflies are from That's Crafty's 'Arty Wings' stamp set.  There are 2 designs of butterfly, with 3 sizes of each design included in the set.  I stamped and embossed 4 medium sized butterflies, 2 of each design so I could feature one of each design on adjacent sides of the desk tidy.

The butterflies were set on geometric mounts made up of a painted That's Crafty! MDF inchie and a wood chip circle caught with Dina's Ruby and Cheddar heavy body acrylic. 

Their thoraces were embellished with a black gem bead. 

 Here's another look at my desk tidy filled with Distress Crayons. 

It's definitely added a warm radiant glow to my art space and lifted the spirits!

Products I used: 

That's Crafty! MDF ATBs  3x3 and 4x4 inch

That's Crafty! MDF Inchies, Twinchies and Dominoes 

Mixed Media Paper

That's Crafty! Multi -Surface Adhesive

Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylics: Ruby, Cheddar, Lemon

Black Acrylic Paint

Versafine Embossing Ink 

Seth Apter's Emerald Creek Baked Velvet Embossing Powder: Eclipse

That's Crafty! Stampset: Textures Collection- Set2  

That's Crafty! Stampset: Arty Wings 

Tim Holtz Ideology: Trim Tape: Halloween 

Heat Gun 

Paper Trimmer 

Brushes

Sponge

Black Gem beads  

Hope you have enjoyed your time here with me today. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Hope you have a lovely week 

Take care and stay safe 

Amanda 

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(ink-a-pink) 

 Hello

Instructions

(Apologies for colour quality of photos but light has been an issue)

Gesso was the first step, applying to the black cover of the sketchbook.

I happened to have deli paper which had been used as under paper for previous projects. I selected sheets which had Gesso, Walnut Ink and Lustre Spray Aubergine.

This sheet was adhered to the front cover of the sketchbook and once dry, inking up one of the Lynne's Scribbled Words stamps with Jet Black Archival then with palette knife and gesso mixed with Texture paste, swiping on and then swiping off excess.  

From another deli sheet, stencilling and cutting out a circle from the A4 Circles Stencil.

The Stamperia Cosmo Deer Rice Paper is filled with beautiful imagery and I couldn't help but select the tree image to work with.

At this point, I adhered the circle of deli paper to the sketchbook cover before layering the rice paper tree image. With a Stabilo ALL pencil, creating shadows around both.

From two stamp sets I selected the words Beautiful and Nature stamping onto scrap painted paper before adhering to cardstock for stability.

To bring life to the cover, reaching for the beautiful Interference Gold Paint.

I added a scrap of muslin to the upper left corner before applying more of the Gold Paint.

I made a start on some of the pages, preparing with gesso, coffee and PaperArtsy Fresco chalk paints.  I find that if I rid myself of the starkness of the white pages it gives me a kick-start when settling down to work on the pages.

Thank you for taking time to stop by to visit this post.

Wishes

Lynne

I started with a sprayed mask background using Broken China and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide sprays. However I didn't cut my card to cover the ATCoins from that piece, but flipped the stencil over onto clean card and sprayed with water to get a lovely soft watercolour effect.

The birds are coloured loosely with the sprays as well and cut out in various ways. I didn't worry if the colours ran.

Here I stamped the text directly onto the bird.

The flower stamps works well in the background.

It always amazes me how much you can pack into a small space like an ATCoin!

Hope you enjoyed these mini works of art.

Helen