A Frugal Journey Through January Day 16

Hello and welcome back!

Today I am recycling a canvas board which didn't go the way I planned first time around, plus scraps of paper, lace, scrim, hessian and ribbon, all leftovers from other projects.

For this technique it doesn't matter the colour or pattern of the leftovers as you won't see any of it once you are finished.

I used white glue to adhere all my torn bits of paper to the board, covering the piece with two thin coats of gesso to knock back the colours.

I then decided to use the board landscape, rather than portrait, and added some frayed scrim, stencilling with a Tim Holtz Layering Stencil plus some extra texture paste around the edges of the board.

I finished off with the scraps of lace, ric rac and another couple of coats of gesso before using the book pages and some JOFY stamps with a bit of ink on them and all around the edges - the hessian scraps I had were too heavy for the piece but came in handy frayed, to give me some 'string' stems for the flowers.

Sometimes when I use this technique I dislike the base colours/patterns so much I add a tint of colour either to the gesso or some matte medium on the second two layers. This piece started out with scraps of purple so after two coats of gesso I added a smidge of Luminarte Primary Elements in Sky Blue to matte medium before highlighting the texture with some Treasure Gold in my favourite White Fire. I then added the seaside images stamped on tissue and applied to the project with matte medium.

This final sample was a workshop where we used this technique over both the canvas board and the frame, again tinted with Luminarte's polished pigments with the feature dragonfly from a Tim Holtz set in both cardstock and clearly for art to add dimension. again a couple of shrink plastic elements to finish off.

That's it for Day 16, I hope I have inspired you to give it a go and would love it if you would leave me a link in the comments below if you make something using this idea.

I'll be back tomorrow with another four different ideas with that beautiful Hero Arts Poppy stamp for all you cardmakers, including a layout idea too xx

 

 

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A Frugal Journey Through January Day 15

WOW, Day 15 on my Frugal Journey, who'd have believed I could blog a different project every day for more than two weeks! Not me that's for sure, but here we are.

Today is all about using up those leftovers from 6x6 pads, you know the ones you fell in love with and just had to have - but now have more than half the paper still in them.

This layout uses five 6x6 sheets of paper plus a scrap to stamp on plus about half an A4 sheet of white vellum. I used an ivory 12x12 sheet as a base and cut four of the sheets of patterned paper to 51/2 inches square, then die cut the fifth sheet into a large label which I cut in half. The papers were from a mix of Prima collections.

I stamped some swirls and the title with Versamark and embossed them with Wow's Vanilla White embossing powder. The year was stamped in Versafine Imperial Purple then the individual numbers were punched out with a 1/2" circle punch. The lace is from May Arts and the mini envelope an old McGill punch. I made the butterfly by stamping the smaller butterfly onto Grungepaper and the larger one onto Clearly For Art, coloured the smaller with Distress Ink, shaped both and sandwiched a Tim Holtz pin between them.Both butterflies are from Wendy Vecchi. I couldn't resist adding a little stamping with a tiny script stamp from Hampton Art that I have had forever.

This layout took me less than an hour to create - once I got the photos the right kind of black and white for the papers, I had to use them as one is the same design as the background curtain in the photo!

I used this layout for a workshop and, as I never make the same thing twice, I changed it around a bit and used entirely different papers, My Mind's Eye this time, and photos in the class.

Of course you could use the same idea on cards or journal page too.

I'll be back same time, same place tomorrow with lots of scraps of all sorts which become a very interesting background.

Hope to see you then xx

 

 

 

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Guest Workshops with THE Hels Sheridan

Last weekend we were fortunate to have the 'amazeballs' Hels Sheridan as a guest in Snazzys Studio. We all had a fantastic weekend, demonstrated by the ladies who booked for her next weekend with us even though we don't yet know what she will be sharing! Of course we do know that much fun will be had and loud laughter will be heard along the way. Think we'll pass on the exploding heatgun trick though ;0)

This time around she taught two workshops, Saturday's was called Melt Pan Magic....

 

.....and this was her beautiful workshop sample - I sooo wish you could see and feel all the wonderful texture in this piece.

 

Hels covered techniques with paint, stamping on tissue, layering on with beeswax, faux porcelain roses, moulds from Mold n Pour and custom embellishments with UTEE and Clearly for Art. So many very useful hints and tips along the way. All the ladies made beautiful canvases .....

 

 

 

 

 

On Sunday Hels shared her Paperblocked Canvas techniques which may have little influences from other artists she admires, but it is absolutely 'Hels' in the whole, everything she creates is just so recognisably her. I'm not going to share her workshop sample though, as only those here on the day got a sneeky peek of what will be her next DT project with Snazzys new Anna Dabrowska DT kit, the rest of you will just have to wait until later this month over on the DT blog.

 

Just to whet your appetite, here are some of the completed works of art from Sunday's workshop

 

 

 

 

 

These were so much better IRL than they appear here in my dodgy photos. The metallic look of the spritzed flowers was stunning, and Hels' tips and advice on doing this removed the fear of spraying with black ink for everyone.

 

Hels will be back at Snazzys on 1 & 2 June so if you fancy joining in with the learning and laughter next time, watch this space for details of the workshops on offer then.

 

I'll leave you with the new Snazzys DT kit for March from the very talented Anna Dabrowska's (aka Finnabair) debut collection with Prima, Sunrise Sunset - our DT have used two of her collections, Dreamer & Wonderland from 7 Dots Studio in the past and created wonderful pieces. This time round will be no exception I'm sure.

 

 

 

Do pop over to the DT blog and checkout the team's latest makes with this new kit and if you take the time to leave a comment, (the teamies do appreciate it), you could win the A4 Sunrise, Sunset paper pad.

 

Also, a little bird tells me there will be a challenge this month where you can win one of these.

 

 

Lots to look forward to!

 

Thanks for visiting, back soon with details and images of April's workshops in the studio xx