That's Crafty!: Posca Paint Pens

Hi Everyone

I have, for this week’s post, been playing with one of the acrylic stacks by That’s Crafty! and some of the newly released Laurel Burch stamps by Stampendous. I forget how much fun creating these stacks are and really should play with them more often.

Here’s What I Did:

The acrylic stacks come in various designs and sizes, you get three layers of acrylic and one of MDF and then 4 bolts to hold them all together when finished.

Each layer of acrylic is covered in a protective film so I removed just one side of film from each of them. I have 2 methods of painting the images on the acrylic, one is to stamp on the acrylic and paint the reverse side, the other, which is the method I have used this time, is to stamp the image and then paint over the top, this is easier but you have to remember that as you will show the other side your image will be reversed so you can’t do this if the stamped image includes text.

So I stamped my images, some of the new Laurel Burch stamps, with black Stazon which can be a bit slippy so this is so much easier using the Tim Holtz Stamping Platform. Stazon is the best ink to use on acrylic as it is so fast drying and permanent. Once I was happy the images were all stamped in the right place on the acrylic, I stack them together before colouring just to check, I then started colouring my stamped images with Posca paint pens. I then painted the MDF as my background for my acrylic layers. I have used PaperArtsy Fresco paints and the That’s Crafty! Dinky Bubbles stencil. Once happy remove the rest of the protective covering.

Here you can see all the backs of the acrylic layers, the other advantage is that you can go over the lines at bit as you won’t see it when they are the right way.

Here’s the layers now the right way around (remember these are reversed)

Once you are happy with the finished painted look and your paint is totally dry just stack them all together and secure with the included bolts as in main picture.

What I Used:-

That’s Crafty! Surfaces Acrylic Stack

Stampendous Stamps – Laurel Burch Mermaid Fish

Stazon Black Ink Pad

Tim Holtz Stamping Platform

Posca Paint Pens

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paints

That’s Crafty! Dinky Stencil – Bubbles Background

I hope I’ve inspired you to have a play with some of the acrylic ranges produced by That’s Crafty! they really are fun to play with.

See you next week

Love

Amanda X

Hi Everyone

If you are regular followers of this blog you will have already seen posts from other members of the design team using many of the new That’s Crafty! products that launched on Hochanda TV last Friday. You can currently still catch the 2 shows aired last Friday using the Rewind facility on Hochanda’s website,

https://www.hochanda.com/Cinemas/16881/2017-06-16/08/Thats-Crafty

and

https://www.hochanda.com/Cinemas/16887/2017-06-16/14/Thats-Crafty

That’s Crafty! have launched a fabulous range of grey board products and the Gigantags in MDF and grey/whiteboard. My make for you this weeks uses the MDF Gigantag and the greyboard Funky Flowers.

These GiganTAGS are just that, Gigantic!!!! Measuring 7.5” x 15”, see I told you they were huge.

Here’s What I Did:

The first thing I did was cover the MDF tag with a light coating of gesso, That’s Crafty! also have just launched their own gesso in black and white, this started with a coat of white gesso.

I then wanted to create quite a funky background to work with the feel of the funky flowers so created a marble swirled paint effect background.

I started by pouring cheap bottled water based paint (I think they are kids ones) in large pools onto the tag. You would normally do this pouring technique with acrylic fluid paints and pouring mediums but this was just me experimenting. The water based paint has a very dull finish so to add some sparkle I poured in some of the new shimmer paint in purple again launched last Friday by That’s Crafty! This paint has a wonderful shimmer finish which sadly the photo doesn’t show up. The paints have all been swirled together using a cocktail stick and then left to dry, the drying took 3 days.

Hopefully you can see the purple shimmer better here before I covered it up.

I then painted a selection of the funky flower shapes, including the waste parts which I painted in contrasting colours, the stems were coloured black and white which adds to the funky look I think.

I added one of the greyboard butterflies that I also gave my paint swirl treatment. I added a sentiment to my tag which is from Lynne’s Affirmations Set 2, stamped each word cut out and added to the tag.

Here’s What I Used:

That’s Crafty! Surfaces MDF GiganTag

White Gesso

Coloured paints from my stash

That’s Crafty! Shimmer Paint – Purple

That’s Crafty! Bits & Pieces Greyboard Large Funky Flowers 2

That’s Crafty! Bits & Pieces Greyboard Large Butterflies

Black and White Posca Paint Pens

That’s Crafty! Stamp Set – Lynne’s Affirmations Set 2

Black Archival Ink Pad

White Card

Cocktail Stick

I hope you liked it and that you’ll check out the rest of the new launches on the website, there are some fabulous new things that you’ll not be able to live without!!

Until next time

Love

Amanda X

Hi everyone

This week I have been playing with some of That’s Crafty! own brand stamps and one of their large stencils.

Here’s What I Did:

I started with a gelli print from my stash of prints, this was one that I wasn’t that happy with but these are ok to use when you know you are going to cover up a lot of it. I used one of Seth Apters stencils and stencilled Dylusions Postbox Red paint using a piece of Cut and Dry Foam.

Once the paint was dry I drew around each piece of the stencil using a black Posca pen. I then placed the mask part of the stencil over the background and covered up the gelli print around it using black Archival ink also applied with a piece of cut and dry foam. I then went around the head this time using a white Posca pen.

I then added the stamping by heat embossing in white adding the bird of freedom and the sentiment stamps.