We are delighted to announce that Nikki Acton is our
guest designer for September and Nikki has an absolutely fantastic project to start off with!
Hi everyone, Nikki here from Addicted
to Art. It is a pleasure to be a guest designer at That’s Crafty!
this month. For my first project I decided to use some of the fabulous That’s
Crafty! surfaces to make an altered panel.
What I did
I took 4 white/greyboard ATC’s and my craft knife and
chipped off the edges and added some scratches.
Next I
gave them a good coat of black gesso – adding it quite thick and stippling to
create extra texture. I also added black gesso to the outside of a 6x6 inch MDF
panel and 2 of the MDF hearts from the mixed pack.
Once completely dry I took white gesso and dry brushed over
the surface of the ATC’s – highlighting the texture. When dry I added watery
washes of 2 translucent paints – Deco Art Prussian Blue and PaperArtsy Claret.
Hopefully you can see the effect of adding the colour on the right hand ATC
below! I intentionally left the white showing around the edges.
My larger heart was also dry brushed with white gesso and
mostly claret paint added. I added a little black gesso around the edges. For
the smaller heart I stamped one of Andy Skinner’s texture stamps in a little
white gesso and added some white highlights around the edges before applying a
thick layer of Glossy Accents and setting aside to dry.
I glued my ATC’s onto the MDF board and then used a stencil
brush to carefully add white gesso through the selected areas before gluing the
hearts in place too.
Thanks for stopping by – I will be back with another project
next Thursday.
Nikki
Supplies
Stencil
Brush
