Mystical Bird Part 2 By Dee

Hi Everyone Dee here with the second part of The Birdz

wall plaque. I hope you are all well! and ready to
 join in with us here at the Artistic stamper for our
monthly challenge, which is
' Things With Wings'
 & on that note!

For this last plaque I used the second 

Rust board from my previous post

I triple embossed the mechanical bird from

Neil Walkers birdz plate.

I coloured the bird with the same alcohol inks

 as the previous post.

Next I used Pins and jump rings to attach the two

 plaques together.

More photo's

and some more,

I used items from my stash to join it all together.

I hope you have enjoyed this two part project and like the end result.

please feel free to let me know what you think!

take care see you soon.

Dee x

Products Used

1. Artistic Stamper stamps used Neil Walkers Birdz Set A6 , Decay Journaling Stamps #1.
2. Deco Art Products used  Quinacridone Gold, Quinacrodine Burnt Orange, Prussian Blue Hue, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Tourquoise Hue, Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide. Texture sand paste and crackle paste.
3. Ranger crackle accents, Alcohol inks Terracotta,Stream, Ginger & Butterscotch.
4. Inka Gold Gold. 

Mystical Bird part 1 By Dee

Hi everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the summer and managed
some crafty time for yourselves. I have a two part Project
for you this time it started a while ago when I was experimenting
with trying to recreate the beautiful patinas and verdigris that
appear naturally in copper.

This picture shows the patina effect in more colour than 

the above photo.

As you can see below I covered 2 x board in texture sand paste.

Next I coloured the board with the Deco art Media paints.

Some Ranger crackle accents.

Deco art crackle paste round the edges.

Triple embossing using the fabulous Neil Walker Birdz stamps

& the new distress journal stamp.

Rangers alcohol inks.

The writing below was written onto a coffee stirrer and 

clear embossed.

That is it for this time I will be back soon with the second part.

Cheers Dee x

Products Used

1. Artistic Stamper stamps used Neil Walkers Birdz Set A6 , Decay Journaling Stamps #1.
2. Deco Art Products used  Quinacridone Gold, Quinacrodine Burnt Orange, Prussian Blue Hue, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Tourquoise Hue, Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide. Texture sand paste and crackle paste.
3. Ranger crackle accents, Alcohol inks Terracotta,Stream, Ginger & Butterscotch.
4. Inka Gold Gold. 

Phineas Pinchbeck

I loved the Phineas Pinchbeck stamp from the moment I saw it. For this

 project I used the following Artistic stamper stamps, Numerical plate, 

Carte postale, Phineas Pinchbeck, Time & Keys plate, crowning 

glory and Ephemera 1. Tim Holtz cargo stencil  & 

grunge paste. Fresco finish paints, crackle accents

archival ink. Distress Inks vintage

 photo and scattered straw.  

Firstly I painted grey board with fresco finish paints in stone, nougat,

and mushroom, through a honeycone stencil I put squid ink

paint that I then knocked back with nougat. 

I stamped the two sets of numbers off the Numerical 

plate in chocolate pudding.

The two stamps of the postal plate were stamped in claret

 and baltic blue. The ruler of the Ephemera plate was 

stamped in archival ink. 

Grunge paste was put through the cargo stencil numerical 

once dry this was coloured with 

geletoes and treasure gold. 

Gauze was coloured with claret fresco finish paint then darkened 

with black soot distress ink.

Card coloured with distress inks was stamped with the Phineas

 stamp and the crown from crowning glory which I 

then highlighted with liquid pearls.

The clock face x 2 from Phineas stamp was covered in crackle 

accents. this was layered up with the clock faces of the 

time and keys plate. I used a cog die that I had in

my stash.

The sign at the bottom was hand written with white gel pen on 

black card and then backed onto kraft card.

I then backed it onto burlap and black card and finished off with 

 four gold brads on all corners. Thank you for stopping by 

please feel free to leave your comments as your

comments help to inspire me.

Cheers Dee

The Book Of Halloween

Hi everyone how are you! anyone who follows my blog will know that I attended the Artistic Stamper Birthday BBQ @ this event I met the talented Mark Gould who was demonstrating
the new Deco Art Media Range and I had a chance to play. To cut a long story short I have
fallen in love!!! with this product so this post is all about the range and Tim Holtz texture
fades and stamps All products can be purchased through the Artistic stamper
if you can't find them on the website then e-mail Jenny,
 she will be able to get them for you.

1. Tim Holtz Halloween Night,  Poison texture fade & Compass texture fade.

2. Tim Holtz Apothecary stamp set, Stamp set classics ±1 SCF001, 

Mini Blueprints CMS136 . 

3. The compass stamp of indigo blue Grand tour 111.

4. stampotique  bat wings

5. Artistic Stamper clock face from the time and keys plate

6.  Deco Art Media antiquing cream in White,  Carbon black,  

English red oxide & Patina green.

7. Media Fluid acrylics in Prussian Blue, Carbon Black, Burnt Sienne,

English Red Oxide`quinacridone Gold, Metallic Gold 

& Interferencia Gold.

8. Decou Paige matte medium.

9. Media Ranger Crackle accents.

10. Treasure gold.

Firstly I used Tim Holtz texture fades and plain white card which I ran through my

Vagabond machine. I did quite a few sheets of card as I was 

covering the two books with them.

I mixed the prussian blue media fluid with white acrylic paint and then

painted the entire book with it.

Next I used white antiquing cream knocked it back with damp cloth then buffed up 

with a soft cloth I then covered it with black antiquing cream

 and heat dried with my gun.

Once I was satisfied with the look I brushed the entire surface with Americana 

Decou Paige matte medium to seal it. 

Firstly I used grey board and put Tim's Halloween Night fade through my machine

I coloured it with a mix of prussian blue and yellow to make a green

a bit of gold as well. Once dry I covered the entire piece with

 black antiquing cream dried then knocked back with a damp cloth. I then sanded it 

to make it stand out. I Sealed the entire panel with matte medium.

I stamped the wings onto card with black versa fine and then clear embossed them I

 coloured with watered down media fluid and sprayed with a mica 

spray to make them shimmer and glow.

I stamped the skull from Tim's plate onto craft coloured card then highlighted the teeth 

with white paint. I stamped the artistic stamper clock onto white card and covered

 in rangers crackle glaze, once it had crackled i run the edges with versa

 mark and then copper embossing powder.

I finished of the front panel with black fimo clay stamped and 

coloured with treasure gold.

 Here is a view of the back of the box as I was working 

on it 

The back finished I just love the way you can layer up 

the Media range the possibilities are endless.

The inside of the box I used the compass texture fade. I painted the

 base with the blue then used red oxide antiquing cream then a

 bit of white in area's.

The faux pages I used burnt umber watered down then treasure gold

I followed the same process for the second box. just changing

 the mix of colours.

This is the back view.

I used the fimo clay here to do the compasses. I rolled out the clay,

and stamped into it with the Compass of tim's classic plate and the

indigo blue compass. 

I used Spanish Topaz once they had been baked in the oven, to highlight.

I assembled the skull with a screw brad through a cog and a 

circle of coloured card.

The clock and wings were fixed to the top of the skull. I used a silk

rope that I glued around the edges of the main box to finish it off.

Please remember to seal with a media varnish the media range

 has a few to choose from.

The final layer of this project is a book which sits inside the 

second box.

As this post has gone on and on how to make this the book and how to make the pages 

inside can be seen over on my blog  @ deeadamsart.blogspot.co.uk

I hope you have all enjoyed this blog as much as I have enjoyed creating it. 

Don't forget you can e-mail Jenny for any of the supplies that 

don't show up on the website. I would love to hear what 

you all think! so please feel free to leave a 

comment or two.

cheers Dee x 

Steam Punk Birdz By Dee Adams

Hi Everyone! Dee here again I hope you are all enjoying my creations.

Today I have another piece using Neil Walker's  birdz plate.

Around the left hand side and along the bottom put grunge paste 

through the clocks stencil. On the top right hand side

 put grunge paste randomly through a star stencil. Once dry paint the 

whole board with honey dew Fresco Finish paints

Once dry paint with fresco finish paints in the following colours:- haystack, pumpkin soup, 

south pacific & inky pool.

Smoked paprika and dry claret was then dry brushed on to the grey board.

Or you can apply this with your finger. Again dry and then 

apply treasure gold to the grunged clocks and stars.

On a separate piece of gray board I cut out a circle so that the clock from the

 time and keys plate stamped perfectly on to it. Or use the chipboard shapes

 that go with the stamps but cut of the top to make a circle. 

I then painted this with honey dew and once dry I stamped the clock face 

onto it and watered down haystack paint and gently darken the centre.

I coloured a separate piece of board with peeled paint distress ink 

and then stamped the smaller clock face onto it and cut it out. 

I then rolled them on an embossing pad, gold embossing powder

was then applied round and heat set. The centre was filled with

 crackle accents and three very small cogs were dropped into it while still wet.

I stamped the Neil Walker Birdz x 2 onto mop up card and cut out. I then gently

 applied vintage photo distress ink to the clock face to highlight the cracks. I  assembled

 the clocks and birdz using a Tim Holt's metal wing, then a cog was 

placed at the bottom. I placed four brads to the 

top left hand side. 

I mounted it all onto black card and used scrabble letters. Thank you for taking

 the time to read my piece and I hope that It inspires you in some way. 

Please feel free to leave your comments.