Heart Canvas by Gemma

Hello Everyone

I have a square canvas to share with you all today. This canvas started with a layer of Gesso and no real plan, I just felt the need to play and explore with different items on my table.

I spread an old fairly dried out crackle paste over the canvas in different areas and then I pushed the sequin waste masks into the paste while it was wet. The paste that was picked up on the bottom of the mask was pressed onto other areas of the canvas.

The paste took some time to completely dry, but I did apply it very thickly. I added a layer of Gesso over the top of the paste and while that was still wet I started to apply and blend in different colour acrylic paints. The paints I used were Basic Buff Titanium, Ranger paint dabbers in Espresso, Mushroom and butterscotch and Paperartsy's Toffee.

Using the same sequin waste mask I sponged white paint through onto different areas.

I then cut hearts from chipboard and applied a thinner coat of crackle paste, resulting in a much faster drying time.

 After painting over the top with acrylic paint I stamped onto the hearts using calligraphy mat 11 and Pitch black (Ranger),slate (PaperArtsy) and white acrylic paint.

After coating the canvas in a layer of gel medium I ripped strips of washi tape and placed them on the canvas going over the top with more gel medium. I also used gel medium to glue the hearts into place.

Thank you for reading 

Gemma

Products used from The Artistic Stamper

Large Sequin Waste Mask

Calligraphy Mat 11

Paints

Washi Tape

Butterfly 3D frame by Gemma

 Hello everyone

I have a bit of a butterfly theme going on this month. For this post I decorated a 3D frame that measured 20 x 20 cms.

To start I coated the frame in a white paint to prime it.  Then I put some Fresh Lime, Dylusion paint and basic florescent green acrylic on my craft mat.  I applied the different paints to the frame blending them together as I went. It took two coats to cover the frame.

Once dry I applied some grunge paste through the Random Dots mask  and some gilding wax along the inside edges of the frame, once the grunge paste was dry I also brushed gilding wax over the paste.

On sheets of acetate I stamped out butterfly's and columns from the architecture plate, and butterfly plate

Using my fingers so the paint was applied fairly thickly I applied Titan Buff and different shades of grey acrylic to the backs of the columns. When cutting the pieces out, I had to remember to leave tabs so they could be glued in place on the frame. 

On the back of the acetate sheet with the butterfly's I sprayed different ink sprays including cherry pie and lemon zest Dylusion sprays.

Gluing the pieces into the frame was very fiddly and I ended up making little stands from acetate to prop everything up.

I then added a strip of green paper along the bottom to represent grass and some die cut swirls from patterned paper.

I then stamped the same butterfly's onto card stock and coloured them in with pens, gluing the acetate butterfly's over the top. Then I just had to glue them into place on the frame.

Please take a look at this months challenge- All Things Bright and Beautiful, here on the blog and on the Facebook page. There is still plenty of time to enter for your change to win some lovely stamps.

Thank you for reading
Gemma

Products used from The Artistic Stamper

Butterfly stamp plate

Architecture plate

Papier Mache Frame

Random Dots Mask
Dylusions Paints

Dylusions Sprays

Houses by Gemma

Hello Everyone

This this post I created a quick, bright fun card, that just made me feel very chilled and happy.

To start with I cut a piece of card to fit the front of my card blank, I also took I sheet of scrap paper and ripped it into three sections. I used these sections of paper as masks to create the sections on the back ground. After blocking off the sections with the scrap paper I used acrylic paints to first paint a layer of block colour on the base and then a slightly darker colour over the top through a mask.

I used the same mask for all three sections and once dry I stamped the phrase from the our house   plate by Kathleen Fullman.

I also stamped out several of the houses from the same set. Before painting them all with the same basic, red, blue and yellow colours. Once they were dried and glued into place, I added some extra colour with pencils and went around all the houses with a black pen.

Thank you so much for reading
Gemma

Products used from The Artistic Stamper

Random Dot Mask

Our House A6 plate

Bright card by Gemma

 Hello Everyone

A quick, bright, fun card from me today. using a gelli plate background, and Lesley's floral stamp plate.

I covered my gelli plate with pink acrylic paint and placed a piece of card over the top that I had already cut to 18 cm square. That was my first of three layers, the second layer was orange paint and the petal mask. Finally I added some circles from large dot mask with white paint and around the edges. 

Using black archival ink I stamped a few of both the large and the small open flowers, from Lesley's flower plate. I blocked the flowers in with gesso, so I could paint on top without the background colours showing through.

 I painted the flowers blue so it gave quite a contrast to the background, I used the same blue acrylic to paint them just adding white to some to change the tone. I added the word create from the words mask

Using a black paint pen, I went around my stamped images and the word create, I also added some stems and leave to the smaller flowers and a boarder of dashes around the edge.

Thank you for reading
Gemma (inkykitty)

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Petal Mask

Large Dot Mask

Lesley's Flowers

Words Mask

Creating mixed-media card using masking fluid, watercolor and acrylic ink

Hello, dear! 

Hi, it's me, Maria Potapovich (mellpellmell) here for you today)))))

Today we will have fun with colors. 

Well, with the masking fluid.

And with the beads.

And with stamps. 

Oh, do keep your eyes peeled!

Here is my result:

I've used stamps set to make this card: Journaling Mini Words 

I hope you liked my idea.

If you decide to repeat it yourself, then feel free to leave here or in the comments below the video links to your work - I really wonder what will  you get! 

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