Sir Theo

 Hi everyone and happy crafting Tuesday (that's a thing right?!)

You know when you start with only a vague idea where you're going?

Well, this is what happens.   

I got lost in the weeds but eventually made it out the other side!

I started with my go-to white card stock and added some Art Philosophy water color and some Lindy's powders.

I then ripped up some Prima tissue paper and stuck it down with gel medium.

I then added some paint using a brayer but finished up with way too much green

so wiped some off with a baby wipe through a stencil.   I still wasn't happy so I went over entire page with gesso.   In the weeds, right?

 

While the gesso was drying I went back in with a baby wipe and took off some of the gesso being careful not to take too much or I'd be back where I started.

I then added some more Lindy's powders and some distress inks.   I gave my chippies a light coat of gesso and then sponged on some Distress Ink to the edges and added a little glitter with a glitter Posca pen. 

I had everything stuck down then decided my background needed something else so I carefully pulled everything up and added some stamping.

 And this is what I finished up with

Products I have used include

Art Philosophy Water Color (Cafe)

Lind's Stamp Gang Flat Shot (Summer Lovin" Fun)

Lindy's Stamp Gang Magical Shakers (California Poppy Gold & Cowabunger Copper)

Prima tissue paper

Gel Medium

Brayer

Dina Wakley paint (Lemon, Buff, Evergreen, Ancient)

Gesso

Vicki Boutin Stencil

Distress Ink (Rusty Hinge & Bundles Sage)

Scrap FX arrow chipboard

Posca Pen (Orange glitter)

Inkadinkado Fern Stamp

Carabelle Studio stamp scribbled leaves

Studio Calico 7 paper puffy alpa stickers

Fancy Pants Golden Days Cork shapes

Washi tape

 

TFL

cheers

Trace

Moving Day

Hi everyone

You know sometimes when you see a photo and you think what the ...?   I always think I'm average height at 5'6" - maybe I'm shrinking with age!   Photo with my wonderful (and very tall) son.

My colour palette was inspired by the gorgeous 13@rts Blue magnolia papers.   This is what I came up with. 

This layout had a bit of a confused start.   I started by mixing some Pearl Ex (which I thought was going to be gold but finished up being a dark brown) with some gel medium I have had in my stash for a while.   It was really thick and almost unworkable (Note to self - use your supplies!) I couldn't get it to move with my spatula and almost threw it away but instead used my finger to rub in through a Darkroom Door Stencil.  Also splodged a random bit in the right lower corner  so that's where my date went.

   

I then added some colour to the background using the plastic bag technique using Color Burst powders in Sepia and Burnt Umber, Lindy's Stamp Gang T-Bird Turquoise and Magical shaker in Guten Tag Teal, drying between each colour.    

I fussy cut some of the 13 @rts papers and inked the edges with Distress Oxide Gathered Twigs which I also used to colour a little muslin.

Layered it all up and added some beads with 13@rts soft gel medium, my title and I was done.

Thanks for looking

cheers

Tracey