That's Crafty!: February 2022

Hello

Sharing this large MDF tag today.

Supplies

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Lynne's Carved Stamps Set 2
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Lynne's Affirmations Set 6
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Lynne's Scribbled Words Set 1
That's Crafty! Surfaces MDF Tags Pack of 6 #10
That's Crafty! Surfaces Tea Bag Paper
That's Crafty! Medium Walnut Ink Crystals (substitute with Powder)
That's Crafty! Medium Acrylic Liquid Wax
That's Crafty! Pearl Inks Black
That's Crafty! Multi-Surface Paint Grey
Archival Ink Pad Jet Black

Instructions

Onto the cardstock, Walnut Ink was sprayed - dissolving the Walnut Ink Crystals/Powder to required strength. To this, small amounts of the Grey paint added, misting with water and then pressing another sheet of card onto this before gently removing. This creates lovely texture.

This was adhered to the MDF tag.

Onto this, one of the Carved Leaves stamped with Jet Black ink but

I wanted a distressed appearance to the stamped image so I focused the ink around the edges and leaving small areas almost free from ink and to those areas, sprinkling a tiny amount of Walnut Ink Crystals and misting with water.

The Walnut Ink Crystals also sprinkled onto the background, bringing a little bit more texture.

Onto scrap piece of painted cardstock, inking up one of the Affirmations from Set 6. Then layering onto scrap of stained calico and this onto torn pieces from Tea bag paper stained with Walnut Ink and then coated with Acrylic Liquid Wax.

To finish, torn piece of walnut ink stained tag and adding some marks by inking up the circle stamp from Scribbled Words stamp set.

Thank you for your visit.

Wishes

Lynne

I'm working in an art journal today, inspired by this rabbit by Melina. It started life a different colour, but I changed it to suit the background.

This was a random page that I'd brayered extra paint onto.

I added some black spots.

I then covered a lot of them up with the large circles.

I added a touch of green and yellow to them...

...and tried out my rabbit.

I thought he needed some grasses and flowers so pulled out Lynne's Botanical set.

I thought it was getting a bit grungy and mucky at this point so added in some paint over the top,

and then stamped some script in white. White paint stamping always brightens it up.

Then stamp some leafy plants in green paint.

I outlined these with a black pencil to give some definition and also lightened the pink flowers and added blue to some of the leaf stems.

It was at this point I decided to make the rabbit orange to pull in the orange from the background.

The word 'Flora' is from Lynne's stamp set.

There was a point where I was going to abandon this page as it looking a bit dark, but the white paint and the lime green helped to lift it out of the doldrums!

Hope you've enjoyed the process!

Helen

Hello!

I have an explosion of flowers to share this week as with the current rather cold weather, I find that I'm really longing for Spring to arrive with some warmer weather. This reflects my dreams of times to come when flowers are blooming.

Step by Step:

My chosen substrate is an 8 inch MDF round from a set of several sizes, very useful if you're a big fan of circular artwork as I am.

I covered the round with a mop up paper towel from my supply which was used to blot excess spray from when I was using Flat Matte sprays. As it's mostly green, it's the ideal background for my flowers and it has lots of lovely texture too.

I then took one of the new stamps from Melina, a sort of scribbly text and stamped this on randomly with black ink.

I next prepared my flowers, choosing to use one of the gorgeous daisy stamps designed by Liz Wheeler. I stamped lots with black ink on smooth cartridge paper. I painted them all with Pentart Liquid Watercolours choosing blue, pink and yellow for a lovely Springlike feel. I cut them all out - it took a while but I was listening to the radio which I find helps pass the time more easily.

I glued the flowers to the background to form a wreath shape and then set about creating my central focal point. I stamped one of the large floral word images by Melina Dahl on white card with black ink and coloured the floral elements with pencils. I cut the word out and glued it to a black card base, trimming around the edges to leave a black border.

I finished the piece off with some toning wool tied through the holes at the top.

Supplies:

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Daisy, Daisy by Liz Wheeler

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Funky Flowers Set 4 by Melina Dahl

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Happy Cool by Melina Dahl

That's Crafty! MDF Surfaces - 8 Inch Round (from a set)

That's Crafty! Flat Matte Sprays

Pentart Liquid Watercolours - Apple Green, Blue, Lemon, Pink

Black Ink

White Card

Black Card

Have a great weekend and see you next week.

Fliss x

Hi Everyone,

As I still had my designer papers to hand from last weeks project (see here) I thought I'd look to using them in the project I'm sharing today.

This time the designed paper serves as a background for a textured That's Crafty! mandala stencil. Rather than go for a colourful mandala with crisp lines the paper I decided to go with a more neutral, dare I say 'dirty' colour palette so the finished card/ journo page would have a vintage, distressed kinda grungy feel/ look

The paper I chose to work with was from 13Arts 'Grungy Walls' paper pad.

Although the paper is a good quality thickness (200gsm) I knew I would be using a fairly 'wet' medium on it so I adhered it to a piece of card for improved thickness and durability.

To create the central mandala design I applied Seth Apters 'Crackled' Izink Texture through That's Crafty's 'Magnificent Mandala' stencil.

Seth's 'Crackled' texture is a good consistency to use with a stencil - not too thick, not too loose. As with all crackle mediums it doesn't really like being overworked so I applied it through one area of the stencil design at a time. I didn't go with too heavy an application of the medium as I only wanted fine cracks.

Initially I set the paper to one side to let the crackles form gradually but did finish the process with a heat gun. Unlike some crackle mediums that don't necessarily react well to the heat from a heat gun this particular one didn't seemed to mind as it still produced some lovely crackles.

I used black ink and gold wax very lightly to enhance the fine crackles and then outlined the whole design with a black micron pen.

Small elements of the stencil design were carried through to each of the corners of the designer paper too.

For a touch of additional background detail I added some stamping.

For this I used a couple of stamps from Melina Dahl 's 'Funky Flowers 1' That's Crafty! stamp set with Tim Holtz Distress Archival ink. There was some black and white paint splattered around and I blended some Distress ink around the sides of the paper too just to enrich its colour a touch.

After matt n layering the stencilled paper the addition of a single word provided the finishing touch for the card/ journo page/

'Possibility'

Products used:

That's Crafty! Super Smooth White Card

13Arts 6x6 Paper Pad: 'Grungy Walls" designed by Olga Heldwein

That's Crafty! Multi Surface Craft Adhesive

Seth Apter Aladine Izink Texture: Crackled

White Acrylic Paint

Black Acrylic Paint

Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot

Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Vintage Photo

That's Crafty! Stencils: 'Magnificent Mandala (TC60052)

That's Crafty! Stamps by Melina Dahl : 'Funky Flowers Set 1

13Arts A5 Stickers: 'On the Wall- Tiny Text' (o/s but similar can be found (here)

Palette Knife

Heat Gun

Paper Trimmer

I hope you have enjoyed your time here today. Thanks for stopping by.

Hope you have a lovely creative week

Take Care

Amanda

(ink-a-pink)

The extras packs from Craft O'Clock collections are little gems - although based on the main paper collections they contain so many extra embellishments really extending the use of the main papers. For my make for this weeks blog post I have used Lost in Time 8 x 8, Extras and Journal Extras along with an Arch shaped MDF Upright.

I started by gluing paper from the paper pack to the MDF shape and then trimmed it to fit. I was careful when aligning the paper not to cover the slots that secure the two pieces together and used a file to remove extra from the slots and sandpaper to neaten the edges.

Having decorated the base I then spent a little while cutting out all of the elements that were needed to decorate the front of the piece before tryng out the layout until I was happy with the composition. I knew that I wanted to take advantage of the depth of the base and to achieve dimension used scrap cardboard built up in layers. I worked from top back to front bottom so that the lowest houses are really in the foreground. Hopefully the step by step photos will show what I mean.

Layer 1:

Layer 2: here I added some shredded gauze as this helps disguise the cardboard pieces when the project is looked at from the side.

Layer 3:

Layer 4:

Having set the images all in place I then place the upright into its base and used a combination of 3D Powder small and big 3D balls (a mix of Finnabair artstones will also work) securing them in place with Matte Heavy Body Gel. Into the mix I then added a good sprinkling of Gold Glamour Sparkles.

For the back of the Upright I added a pocket from the journal extras set and a tag from the 12 x 12 paper collection.

I hope you have all survived the storms and have managed to find some crafty time this week and as ever if you like what I have done and create something inspired by it please tag me in your social media posts so that I can see it.

Hello

Sharing this 6"x6" panel, which as usual, features lots of That's Crafty! products.

Supplies

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Nature's Gatherings Set 2 A5
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Lynne's Scribbled Words Set 1
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Lots of Words
That's Crafty! Surface MDF Panel 6"x6" Pack of 3
That's Crafty! Stencil Circles TC40002
That's Crafty! Multi-Surface Paint Black, Grey, White
That's Crafty! Pearl Ink Black
That's Crafty! Medium Walnut Ink Crystals (substitute with Powder)
Archival Ink Pad Jet Black
Fineliner Bottle (look HERE)
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher
Extras: Tag, Button

Instructions

Onto cardstock the Multi-Surface paints were applied, pressing another sheet of cardstock onto it, creating texture and then decanting a little White paint into fineliner bottle along with Fluid Medium, using this to scribble script onto lower area of panel.

Lying on the table, a stained tag along with fabric and scrappy piece of paper. I decided they would become the focal for this panel. Dots of Black Pearl Ink were applied to the chiffon fabric scrap then onto the blue piece of paper, inking up the feather from Nature's Gatherings stamp set.

Onto scrap of cardstock (stained with Walnut Ink), stamping one of the words from the fabulous That's Crafty! Lots of Words stamp set.

The shipping tag is the base layer, beginning to layer the fabric with the Pearl Black dots, the stamped paper and the stamped word Freedom, attaching with Tiny Attacher and utilizing the stained string from the shipping tag.

Just peeking to the right side of this tag, a piece of painted deli paper (I often use deli paper as underpaper), tracing one of the circles from the A4 Circles Stencil.

Final touch, inking up the surrounding dots on the circle from Scribbled Words stamp set, stamping those marks onto the background panel.

Thank you for your visit.

Wishes

Lynne

I'm using an Oxford Impressions set of stamps here that I forgot I had!

You get a huge amount of stamps on each plate with these sets, which makes them good value. I'm making a little ATC size Art Shrine which suited the size of the stamps. It's painted yellow to start with and then I stamped the big top stripes in red paint and finished it off with a black pen.

This card panel slots in to form the background.

The various figures and images are just stamped onto card and then coloured with Distress Ink Pads - Salty Ocean, Festive Berries, Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron and Mustard Yellow.

Then, just stick it all down. I've brought the clown on the right forward using foam tape - these shrines are quite deep so great for extra dimension.

I hope you've enjoyed this project!

Helen

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