tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18107992785466977952024-03-17T00:39:28.743-07:00In My Little KornerKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.comBlogger456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-11508499983713434042015-10-05T00:00:00.000-07:002015-10-05T00:00:13.735-07:00Mixed Media - A B C ...Welcome back to Mixed Media Monday in the Korner.<br />
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The story behind today's piece from my large art journal: last week, a crafty friend posted a pic of one of her journal pages in progress, and I commented that her page put my unfinished circle page to shame. :) She prompted me to post a pic of my page's progress so far - I was taking a little break from housecleaning, so I pulled out my camera and snapped a pic of my page and posted it into the thread.<br />
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Later that evening, my journal was still sitting there on my worksurface, and I couldn't sleep, so what better time than "now" to finally finish it? And that's how this page finally got done, many weeks after it was started. Without seeing my friend's post, and without her prompting after my comment, it might still be sitting there on the shelf, and still unfinished. :)<br />
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This page is one of the first in my large Dylusions art journal...<br />
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I don't have stepout photos for this page because - well honestly - I forgot to even think of it when I started playing with this. But I can give you some of the steps to the end product.</div>
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The paper in this journal is heavy mixed-media paper, and this time, I didn't put any gesso on the page first. I put a dab of different Dylusions acrylic paints around the page, and spread them with a combination of paintbrush, fingerpainting, and spreading with a damp baby wipe.</div>
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The larger black squares were made through a stencil using heavy black gesso - you can probably see that in the top right and lower left, I applied the gesso through the stencil in the usual manner to get the positive image. But for the lower right and upper left, I turned the stencil over and pressed the gessoed stencil down on the page to get the negative pattern.</div>
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I then used jar caps and black gesso to form the outlines for the circles down the page before adding the white speckled areas using Whipped Spackle through a Tim Holtz stencil.</div>
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After I had the circles laid out, I used molding paste through an alpha stencil in the lower corner and across the center.</div>
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Heavy white gesso was finger painted into the centers of the circles, so I could color them later...and that's as far as I got when I put the page away for another day...</div>
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You can see I didn't have far to go to finish this page, so it was well worth my time to get it finished and cross it off the list of the incomplete. :)</div>
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I used Gelatos to color inside the circles, blending black, purple and yellow. The little white dots were added with a white gel pen, and the smaller vertical black dots were made with black acrylic paint through a Tim Holtz stencil. </div>
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The last bits were to add a few strips of washi tape here and there, and a trio of word stickers...and it's complete!</div>
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Here are a few closeups around the page...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Liquitex heavy body acrylic paint - Mars Black; Faber Castell Gelatos: Grape, Buttercream, Black</span></div>
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Thanks for visiting today...I hope your week is starting with a smile!</div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-47339938098247460142015-10-02T00:56:00.000-07:002015-10-02T00:56:55.294-07:00For the Holidays...It's Friday, and time to close out the week with a couple more Christmas cards for the upcoming holidays. I did make a couple of each of these designs, so my collection is slowly building for this year...and it's a good feeling to be getting these done early!<div>
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We finally had a bit of very much needed and welcome rain this week in Northern California, so it only seems fitting to show you the "Joyful" card first! :)</div>
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The embossed background is accented with Pumice Stone Distress Ink, and as I've done before with this LaLa Land Crafts diecut, the street lamp is accented with Inka-Gold "Old Gold" metallic paint, and simply accented with branch punches, narrow ribbon, and a tiny bell...</div>
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The diecut sentiment words are accented with a gold gel pen...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Dies</i></b>: LaLa Land Crafts "Street Lamp"; Memory Box "Star of Wonder"; Paper Smooches "Christmas Words"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Punch:</i></b> Martha Stewart "Medium Branch" <i><b> Embossing folder:</b></i> Tim Holtz "Bricked and Woodgrain"</span></div>
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The second of today's cards is a bit more shabby, with a bit more detail and lots of diecuts...</div>
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The little diecut poinsettia is surrounded with a holly diecut, and a twig wreath adorned with punched branches, clear red gems, and sparkly snow...</div>
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and a little pearl flourish pointing the way to another flourish die cut in the corner...</div>
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Today I'm sharing another project using the new Perfect Paints - specifically, the Shimmering Matte Acrylics. My first experiment with these was the "Believe" canvas that turned out bright and brilliant and very colorful. This time, I wanted to see if I could come up with a muted, vintage-looking project using the same paints, and I think I was successful...I hope you agree.<br />
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I got this different look by using a base of black gesso, and applying the paints with a dry-brush technique that put the color on with a lighter coating and let the black gesso show through in spots. The shimmer of these paints really gives this muted look a beautiful glow...<br />
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The base is a couple plastic dollar store frames that I glued together with E6000 glue - then added a scroll cardstock diecut to the corners of the very boring, plain, and very smooth outer plastic frame (these plastic frames were very shiny, so to make them easier to photograph, I did apply a thin coating of clear gesso over them prior to this picture so there would be a whole lot less reflective glare)...</div>
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And then I made an "oops!"...but then I thought it might work to my advantage because it could be a better way to show you how I did the next step. </div>
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The plan was to apply one-coat crackle medium in spots along the smooth outer frame, and the smooth section of the inner frame, then apply heavy black gesso over everything. But I got carried away and started applying the heavy black gesso with a stippling brush and a palette knife, and then realized I'd forgotten the crackle medium...oops!</div>
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So I decided to finish the gesso coat, then apply the crackle medium, and put another, thinner coat of black gesso over the whole thing again. Turns out I was right - you can see the shiny clear crackle medium better in the photo when it's over the matte gesso...so here you go..."spot" applications of the crackle medium along the outer edges, and a continuous coating on the inner frame...</div>
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With the final coating of gesso done, you can now see how the crackle medium and a stippling application technique of the heavy gesso combines with the cardstock corner diecuts to add a great overall texture to what were smooth sections of the frames...</div>
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The next fun step was to start applying a base coat of colors. In my head, I was picturing a finished project with a border of silvery-blue and a center of rose-gold embellishments. To start, I combined red and blue paints until I had the purple shade I wanted, and started dry-brushing the color on, being careful not to cover too completely, because I wanted the black gesso to show through from the lower areas of the textures. </div>
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Next, I applied some of the blue paint alone, and then some silver...blending the three colors around the outer edges. I didn't worry that this was looking darker than I envisioned, because I could later add some of the lighter colors used on the embellishment areas to the frame to blend it all together...</div>
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Then I started pulling out and laying out embellishments. There's a bit of everything here - a paper baking doily, an old hand scarf pin, a handmade flower backed with cotton lace (that I didn't like after I'd made it years ago, but set it aside to find a way to rework "later"), some older chipboard alpha letters from my scrapbooking days, buttons and paper flowers and silver seed beads, a metal corner scroll, a snippet of lace, an air-dry clay frame, dragonfly charms, and butterfly beads - little bits of fun to layer and stack.</div>
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Except for the seed beads, I coated them all with black gesso before gluing them down, then, after the seed beads were glued down, applied a final coating of gesso over everything to cover the beads and any wayward glue blobs...</div>
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Here are some detail shots, starting with the paper flower I made too long ago...it's text patterned paper with just a touch of clear coarse glitter on the petals and a cotton lace bottom layer. I didn't like the finished flower at the time, but never got around to taking it apart and redoing it. I pulled it out and discovered it was a pretty good fit for use up in that corner! A coating of gesso and some beautiful paints and you'd never know it was doomed for the "round file" so long ago. </div>
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There wasn't a way to continue the clustered look of the round seed beads up in that flower corner, but I did find some stamens in my flower boxes that were almost the same size as the seed beads. So I clustered some of them up and stuck them in around the metal leaves, and after they were painted, you can't tell where the beads stop and the stamens start...</div>
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A mulberry paper cherry blossom sits among lots of metal bits and bobs, along with an air-dry clay mini frame and a chipboard bracket, also left from my scrapbooking days (and if you look closely, you'll see I couldn't resist applying pink paint to the fingernails on my old hand pin... :) )</div>
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These chipboard alphas are covered with copper, green, and red paints to simulate old metal with a couple different patinas...</div>
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And finally, a closeup of a corner that shows a bit more of the blending after applying a bit of the lighter, center colors to the outside frames...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Color mediums:</i> Perfect Paints Shimmering Matte Acrylics - Red Wagon, Peony, Tarnished Silver, Peacock Blue, Moss Green, Spring Green, Aged Copper</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Art Mediums:</i> DecoArt One-Step Crackle; Art Basics heavy gesso - black</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Dies:</i> Spellbinders "Twisted Metal Tags & Accents" (corner scrolls)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="font-weight: bold;">Metal leaves, metal flower, metal corner element, scalloped lace:</i> TheFunkieJunkie.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Small metal findings:</i> Prima/Finnabair <i style="font-weight: bold;">Stamen clusters:</i> ChocolateLetters on Etsy</span></div>
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Instead of using a loose coloring technique all over, I played with coloring the images more exactly, and using the loose coloring in the background. These watercolors are fabulous for this...you need so little pigment on your brush to get the concentrated color that I imagine this set will last me for years!<br />
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First up, a little number using more "autumn-like" colors...<br />
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I used the clear Wink of Stella pen a little differently on this card. I loaded some of the sparkly ink onto my craft sheet, then back onto a smaller watercolor brush, and flicked it over the entire card front. It makes the card sparkle, but in a very subtle way. Here's a better closeup-all those tiny white looking dots are the silvery sparkle from the Wink of Stella pen...</div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-66357250688896779232015-09-18T00:00:00.000-07:002015-09-18T00:00:02.562-07:00Getting a (late) Head Start...A couple months ago, a sweet friend asked if I would make up some Christmas cards for her...we joked about "Christmas in July"...then real life continued to take up what used to be crafty time, and "Christmas in July" turned into "Christmas in September." But hey, we're still ahead of the game, right? And if I work on it a little here and a little there (which fits perfectly with my schedule these days), there might be a sizable collection of Christmas cards in our baskets, ready for sending at Christmas time.<br />
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Here are a couple of the first designs for this year. I usually make 1-2 of each design, with just a slight change in each so they're technically "one-of-a-kind." The first two are pretty simple in design, so they leave room for easy additions and/or changes to individualize them as I construct them.<br />
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I love white-on-white designs, so I usually include at least one each season...this was a fun one...<br />
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The ribbon snowflake die inspired me to pull out a couple of my curved border dies, and the lines blended pretty nicely. I used some foam tape under each of the curved border pieces so there's a bit of dimension to the card without adding a lot of bulk...</div>
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The second card is basically another white-on-white with green accents. :) The green patterned paper is die cut in the center with a scalloped oval, and popped up over the white base with foam tape to create a well in the center. The pine branch diecuts are adhered to the white base, then the poinsettia and berries dies are adhered to the green patterned piece at the top of the well...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Impression Obsession "Pine Branch"; La-La Land Crafts "Pretty Poinsettia"</span></div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-21508148360137143102015-09-14T01:30:00.000-07:002015-09-14T01:30:02.742-07:00Mixed Media - DREAM canvas...Happy Monday, everyone! Today's share for Mixed Media Monday is an 8x8 canvas that I made just for fun. I played with a few of my newest colors of Golden heavy body acrylic paints for the background, then layered some stenciling, and finally lots of findings with a twist...<br />
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Instead of layering all the findings and fun pieces flat across the center of the canvas, I turned two 3x3 mini canvases upside down, adhered them to the center of the 8x8, and layered the pieces inside and out of the mini canvases...it adds lots of fun dimension...</div>
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Here are a few stepouts showing how it came about. The first step was to gesso the backs of the mini canvases with black gesso, and pencil in their final position on the larger canvas. Then I randomly added some of my favorite acrylics for the background, and splattered with white gesso...</div>
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Then I added some molding paste through a stencil...only in two corners, since the other two would most likely be covered with embellishments...</div>
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Then it was time for fun. The first step was to glue the two mini canvases to the larger one - I used fabric glue for that, since it was canvas-to-canvas. Once it was good and dry, I started adding...and adding...and adding...chipboard die cuts, wood cut shapes, lots of layers of metal findings...the works!</div>
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I coated most of the pieces with black gesso before I glued them to the canvas, so I'd only have to do light touchups after they were all secured. I didn't want to risk having some of the black gesso cover areas of the background where I wanted color to show. Once I photographed that step, I thought the middle looked like a big black blob (and who wants to look at that? - haha). So I painted some of the pieces with one of the colors I planned to use, and added the seed beads for contrast, so you can see a bit more where it's going...</div>
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Once I had the embellishments secured, and painted that first small area, I thought the stenciled background areas looked a bit too bright. I was using Inka Gold metallic paints on the embellishments throughout the center, and I wanted that area to be the brightest part of the canvas. So I got out a black Stabilo pencil and shaded the stenciled areas to tone them down just a little, and add more dimension to the unembellished corners...</div>
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Here are some more detail shots. Once I had glued all the embellishments down, I touched up some of the areas with more black gesso, then started applying several different colors of Inka Gold metallic paints.</div>
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I love how some of my very-old metallic-colored buttons are so perfect for this type of project. Many years ago, you could find bags of these silver and gold buttons in the craft stores. There would be mixes of wonderful shapes - butterflies, hearts, stars, keys, zipper pulls - all sorts of goodies all in one bag, for about $5. Years later, I'm finally starting to get to the end of the supply from these button bags, and sad that they're not available anymore. You can see in this first pic one of the butterfly buttons, and on the left, the rope-edged pull-type button beneath the wooden scroll...</div>
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This pretty round medallion was in my stash, so I topped it with a silver button, then put a Finnabair finding right in the center of the beautifully-edged button...</div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-23324596279991007612015-08-27T00:00:00.000-07:002015-08-27T00:00:04.002-07:00Pretty in Pinks...Hi again, everyone! Today's share is a shabby sweet card in one of my favorite "soft color" combos-rose pink and taupe...<br />
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Beautiful patterned papers from Maja Design's Vintage Summer Basics collection are still some of my favorites, so much so that I save all the smaller leftover pieces from other projects because I know I'll eventually use them on cards, such as this one! </div>
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In the center of the florals, there are three cherry blossom flowers made with LaLa Land Crafts' die...they're surrounded with premade mulberry paper lilies and sweetheart blossoms from Wild Orchid Crafts. Those bunches of beautiful dark stamens peeking out from top and bottom of the cluster are from my go-to source for stamens, ChocolateLetters on Etsy...</div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-54228898540530356132015-08-24T00:00:00.000-07:002015-08-31T21:11:11.239-07:00Mixed Media - Believe in Magic...Happy Monday, everyone! I had to take a little break from crafting recently to tend to some family business and a sick family pet, but I was able to sneak in some crafty time in small bits and pieces during the past couple weeks, and will have a couple projects to share with you this week. :)<br />
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The first is a canvas (of sorts) to get back on track for Mixed Media Mondays. I recently purchased some newly released paints by an artist friend, Cheryl Mezzetti. They're called Perfect Paints, and they're acrylic paints with a beautiful sheen to them...colors that are brilliant with just a bit of reflectivity that makes the colors dance...they're called Shimmering Matte Acrylics, and the hardest decision to make was which colors to start my collection with!<br />
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Here's the finished project...<br />
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In my stash, I had the backing chipboard piece from an empty wirebound 9x12 watercolor paper pad, already gessoed for later use. When my paint order arrived, I pulled out that piece, and started laying on colors - just playing to see how they covered, how they blended with each other, and what would happen when I layered one on the other after drying. These colors are so rich!</div>
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When I saw how beautifully the colors blended, an idea started to take shape...and that's about the time that other life issues started taking priority over my crafting time. So I started jotting notes on post-its as the ideas came while I was tending to other things, and playing with those ideas when I had a few minutes in the evenings.</div>
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Along with the paints, I purchased a few colors of Perfect Paints Polishing Plasters...a sort of molding plaster with color...but a bit of a different texture, and when buffed, a slight sheen...or when burnished, a shabby, vintage look. So, following my "try this" notes, I pulled out a couple stencils, and played with laying down the Plasters...and then I had this...</div>
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Here's where you can see how different the colors look when the combo of natural light and Ott lights aimed at the canvas board (in my little homemade photo booth) reflect the sheen of the paints. In real life and to the natural eye under normal room lighting, the colors look more like they do in the first photo above. </div>
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I used "Organic Sugar" Polishing Plaster for the stripes along the left side, and a combo of "Cayenne" and "Sunwashed Clay" Polishing Plasters for the tree and branches. Once they had dried, I burnished each with the metal blade of a palette knife, and it gave them a smooth but vintage appearance.</div>
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As a finishing touch, I used Stabilo All pencils in black and brown to add a little bit of shading and dimension before adding embellishments on top of the pastes.</div>
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Among the little burlap flowers and diecut cardstock leaves decorating the tree branches, I added some dark bronze metal flowers, touched up with pink and yellow Shimmering Matte Acrylics. I also dry-brushed those colors on top of the multicolored micro and seed beads that I added around each of the larger metal flowers...</div>
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These chipboard hearts were first painted with the pink paint (Peony), and then a watered-down "wash" of the Peacock Blue paint gave me the violet/purple shade for a little variety...</div>
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I had painted this chipboard fairy for another project, and didn't use it, so I covered it up with black heavy gesso, then added some of the Peacock Blue and Peony paints to the wings, and topped them with some Rock Candy Distress Stickles...</div>
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The sentiment stamp is by Unity Stamp Company - it already has some of the words "blocked" but I drew in a couple more lines and some white dots around "magic" for fun...pens write beautifully over these paints! The pink and blue Shimmering Matte Acrylics were added inside the crystals of the butterfly to make it stand out a bit more...</div>
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I did take step-out photos as I went along this time, but then I pulled a total Homer-Simpson-DOH! move and reformatted the card in my camera before I double-checked to be sure I had transferred the photos to my computer. (It was a busy and stressful week around here last week with a very ill family pet, so I prefer to think that was the reason for my distraction....more than likely it was simply lack of good sleep...LOL)<br />
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So if you see items on the supply list and wonder "where are they?" they're most likely on the base of the multi-layered background, and now slightly covered with the flowers and embellishments...<br />
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I started by coloring a piece of mixed media paper with Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays, then adding some die cut lattice shapes in two corners, and molding paste through a stencil across most of the front. </div>
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In the lower left corner, I die cut a couple pieces of paper doily, colored them with the same sprays, and layered one on top of the other, with foam tape and a piece of lace between the two. Then both upper right and lower left corners got more stenciled molding paste for texture.</div>
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Here are a few closeups around the page...in this photo, you can barely see the edges of the two die cut doilies with the lace between them...</div>
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One day while we were out shopping together at a fabric store, my friend was searching through the remnant bin for animal prints, and found a beautiful piece of wide, sheer lace...she told me it was destined to go home with me...LOL...so it did...and a piece of it was a perfect subtle addition to the lower right corner of this card...</div>
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Lately I find I love to add little details up in the corners of my cards...and this one was no exception...</div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-46899182870915565552015-07-20T00:00:00.000-07:002015-07-20T00:00:07.367-07:00Art Journal - Wildflower...It's Mixed Media Monday again here in the Korner, and I have a colorful journal page to share today.<br />
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Unfortunately, I didn't take stepout photos this time...and this is one of those pages with a lot of steps. But I think once you see it and I explain what I did, you'll get it. I played with Dylusions acrylic paints, and masks and stencils...and this spread is one of the few "flat" journal spreads I've made.<br />
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So, once again channeling my "flower child" younger years, here's the finished double-page spread in my small Dylusions art journal...<br />
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I started by eyeballing where I wanted my two figures to sit on the pages, and in those two general areas, went to work creating a background of text tissue paper, hand-drawn flowers, circles, pens and inks, Dylusions paints...fun and bright colors.</div>
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I knew the text I'd be using, and since it was song lyrics, I happily remembered I had an older Tim Holtz music mask in my supply stash...and an older Heidi Swapp loopy flower mask, too. I left the masks over my two figures, laid the music and flower masks down over them, and added more colorful Dylusions paints over the black gesso, covering most of the background with blocks of color.</div>
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After that dried, a stenciling of black heavy gesso at the bottom, and more magenta paint through the same stencil around the top and sides, and it was ready for the quote and handwritten lines.</div>
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I love combining a bit of the shabby-chic style with mixed media, and this month, <a href="http://blog.lindystampgang.com/2015/07/01/new-team-and-new-color-challenge-reveal/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lindy's Stamp Gang</span></a> has a beautiful palette of colors in their monthly color challenge. So out came my sprays and the fun started. Here's the finished result...<br />
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And here's the color board the card is based on. The fun part is that this color palette lends itself to soft pastel colors, as well as bright sassy colors. I chose a little of both - a little softer with the background, and a little sassier with the flower colors. :)</div>
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I created the background paper by spraying 4 colors of Lindy's sprays onto a piece of mixed media paper. For this background, I used <a href="http://www.lindystampgang.com/sprays/flat-colors/bonjour-butter/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bonjour Butter Flat Fabio</span></a>, <a href="http://www.lindystampgang.com/aloha-avocado/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Aloha Avocado Flat Fabio</span></a>, <a href="http://www.lindystampgang.com/sprays/flat-colors/queen-of-hearts-red/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Queen of Hearts Red Flat Fabio</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.lindystampgang.com/sprays/two-toned-sprays/blue-hawaiian-blue/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Blue Hawaiian Blue Starburst</span></a> sprays. </div>
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I started randomly spritzing a little of each of the colors around the page, using a small mask to cover part of the page. Then I removed the mask, and filled in the white space left with more of the same colors, but this time, dropping the color in using the wand portion of the sprayer, and spritzing with water to spread them out. Here and there I dabbed excess color off the page with a paper towel, so you can still see some of the original lines from the stencils in parts of the background.</div>
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I added a large floral cluster over some twine and lace strips run vertically down the left side of the front. I began with the pale yellow flowers, then added the medium blue roses, and finally the bright red lilies - a little potpourri of color intensities ...</div>
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The large yellow rose in the center is made using Spellbinders' Rose Creations dies-it was a little too bright, so I toned it down with cream colored craft paint to blend with the soft yellow of the lilies...</div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-21476177017461606392015-07-07T00:00:00.000-07:002015-07-07T00:00:08.928-07:00Watercolor Potpourri...Hello, again! My crafty mojo is apparently on a small vacation lately, and when that happens, I start to reorganize my work space, and play with making clean and simple watercolor cards (which is a lot more fun, and truthfully, more productive, than the reorganizing chore... ha).<br />
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So today I have a small collection of watercolor cards to share with you. A couple pieces were practice pieces that turned out perfect for a card front. I'm thinking I should tell myself that they're all "practice pieces" from now on. I seem to relax more when I view them that way, and when I relax more, they have a tendency to turn out just the way I want them to! You'd think I'd be wise to my own Jedi-mind-tricks at this age, but I admit it...I effectively psyche myself out a lot, even as an adult who should know better. :)<br />
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This next card is a 4"x 6" note card that I painted after seeing a red poppy card painted with a similar treatment. Unfortunately, I didn't note the name of the creator of the card that gave me the idea, I just wrote "shade with brown" next to the words "large poppy stamp" in my little idea notepad. (I sometimes do this rather than pinning the inspiration piece so I don't copy it too closely.) So if you see this and it reminds you of a similar card, please let me know and I'll edit this paragraph to credit my inspiration artist!</div>
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This final pair of images were my small "practice pieces." I was playing around with coloring and shadows on penciled-in tables beneath the flower pots. I liked how they turned out, so I cut the pieces from my practice pad, and turned them into note cards...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Stamps:</i> Penny Black "Flower Gallery" (irises); Penny Black "A Bunch" (jar); Simon Says Stamp "Friendship Messages" (sentiment)</span></div>
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I made this flower stem a while back, using Prima leaves, a couple stamen clusters, die cut flowers using the LLLC Cherry Blossom Flowers die, and some bright yellow premade sweetheart blossoms to fill in the small spaces. Against the taupe woodgrain paper, it was a nice contrast, so it became the center of attention for this card.</div>
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A couple Maya Road grey pearl stick pins were the perfect addition to the top of the stem...</div>
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and white pearls were added after the stem was glued down to give a little luster to the niches between the flowers...</div>
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The loopy white diecut doily made a fun base for the stem, and twine dyed with Distress Ink added some colorful loopy accents to go along with the diecut...</div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-10953619178344599642015-06-25T00:00:00.000-07:002015-06-25T00:00:05.826-07:00Mixed Media Steampunk Card...Hello, again! I mentioned on Monday that I'd be sharing a card using another of the "smoosh" papers in the photo...and here I am to share a mixed media Father's Day card with a definite steampunk influence - something you don't see me make very often. (This is the gold, copper, and silver metallic piece in the very front of the photo from Monday's post.)<br />
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Although I'm showing this late for this year's holiday (had to be sure it was well in hand first), it could easily be adapted for any occasion requiring a masculine card by switching out the sentiment square I used here.<br />
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I've had this Father's Day sentiment stamp for quite a while now, but hadn't ever used it. It's perfect for this card, so I stamped it onto kraft cardstock and embossed it with black powder.<br />
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The fun part about this card is that, although it looks like it has a lot of metal embellishments, the only real metal pieces are the small findings in the centers of the cogs, and the paper clip - all the rest are chipboard, painted to give the impression of metal...<br />
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The chevron piece was cut from medium weight chipboard, treated with Dusty Attic Rusting Powder, then dry brushed with Lumiere Olive Green paint to add a green patina. </div>
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The cogs were die cut from lightweight chipboard (I cut two layers for each so they wouldn't warp from the paints) and painted with both a blue and green metallic paint after first coating with black gesso. </div>
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The Tim Holtz Grungeboard crown, arrow, and numbers, and the Dusty Attic chipboard chain at the bottom, are all painted the same as the cogs. Here are a few detail shots...</div>
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I had more fun over in the upper right corner. First I mixed some modeling paste with Cattail Copper Brown Lindy's Stamp Gang Magical powder, then mixed in some gold micro beads, and applied it through a distressed harlequin stencil, leaving some areas of some of the shapes uncovered.</div>
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Once the harlequin shapes were completely dry and stable, I went over the bright gold micro beads in the gessoed sections with an aqua (BT5) Spectrum Noir solvent marker. Thankfully, it looked just as I had hoped it would...the aqua shade was the perfect blend with the metallic paints used on the left side of the card...phew! </div>
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After mixing up some Cowabunga Copper Lindy's Stamp Gang Magical to add some "distressed shading" to the right of the uneven harlequin shapes, I used the little bit of paint left to add some splatter to the right side of the card.</div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-56837722186298790782015-06-22T00:00:00.000-07:002015-06-22T00:00:00.549-07:00Mixed Media Canvas - Where There is Love...Happy summer Monday...it's now official...there's a reason for the hot, and very dry, weather we're having! LOL<br />
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This is a pic of some of my "smoosh" papers - pieces of mixed media and watercolor paper colored by "smooshing" them into the leftover paints from previous projects and/or my handmade color charts of Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays and Magicals. (On Thursday, I'll be back to show you a card made with the bronze/gold/grey piece in the front...but today's piece features a bit of three of the papers in this stack, along with a few others not pictured here.) </div>
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I wanted to make a brightly colored background for a canvas, and that's when I remembered my smoosh papers...and realized I already had the background in my basket all along! So I pulled out an 8x10 canvas board as a base, and started laying out and rearranging and re-sizing pieces. I stamped the final-choice pieces with a few fun mixed media stamps using grey Archival Ink to add some muted background images, then began gluing the pieces to the canvas with matte medium. I wound up with a starting canvas looking like this...</div>
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Then I took some smaller pieces, punched and played with the edges and ends, added stitching to a few, and glued them down with matte medium on top of the base pieces to add texture and more color variety ...</div>
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Next up, splatter some white acrylic ink over the background, just for fun. Then I added some more LSG Magicals to color and shadow the crackle paste areas once they were completely dry.</div>
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Before adding embellishments, I needed to add an "anchor" for the large floral cluster and little pieces that would fill the center of the canvas. I die cut two of the "Sketchy Rings" dies and glued them together in the center to form one long piece of distressed circles. </div>
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The clear frame in the center is a Making Memories frame that's been in my stash forever...I knew I'd find the perfect use for it one day! </div>
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And finally, black Archival Ink was brushed around the outside edges. I think the dark contrasting edges keep the eye from drifting off the edges of the canvas, and bring it back to all the fun embellishments and sentiments that will be in the center...</div>
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And now on to some closeups of the finished piece. There were quite a few "happy accidents" as I was pulling embellishments for the canvas, and I love how so many long-stashed pieces, in addition to the clear acrylic frame in the center, finally found the perfect use.</div>
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The "love" key was a recent purchase, but it was gold and didn't have enough contrast with the background, so I covered it first with black gesso, then accented with a couple different colors of Lumiere paints - and now it's perfect...</div>
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And then I found this in my metal charms drawer, and how perfect a fit is it? It's an old Making Memories plaque with the perfect quote to go with the "love" key. I accented the lettering with pink acrylic craft paint, then added more Lumiere paint around the edges, popped some foam adhesive on the back, and nestled it into the sides of the flowers...</div>
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There's still a bit of the black diecut circles peeking through at the top...I didn't cover them completely...LOL. ..</div>
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The metal butterfly was originally a dark bronze color. I had added Alcohol Inks in magenta and copper to it for another project, but didn't use it then. I pulled it out again for this canvas, dry-brushed black gesso around the outer edge for contrast, then added some Lumiere paints to the inside to bring all the colors of the canvas onto the butterfly...</div>
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I discovered that one of the Tim Holtz Idea-ology clock faces fit inside one of the diecut circles perfectly...the color was just not right. Dry brushing a little more black gesso and Lumiere paints took care of that, and a couple small black watch hands in another tiny stash drawer add the perfect finishing touches. </div>
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Below that, another happy find...a long-held Making Memories word charm, this time the word "life," the second half of the quote in the larger sentiment charm...perfect! :)</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Color mediums:</i> Lindy's Stamp Gang assorted Sprays and Magicals; Lumiere paints "Halo Blue Gold" and "Halo Violet Gold"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Stamps: </i>Unity Stamp Co. "graffiti art"; LOTV "Set 66-Grunge Elements"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Stencils:</i> The Crafters Workshop "Mini Chicken Wire" and "Mini Chicken Wire Reversed"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Art Mediums: </i>Studio 490 Crackle Texture Paste; Art Basics Heavy Black Gesso; Liquitex Ink!-Titanium White</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Dies:</i> Memory Box "Sketchy Rings" <i style="font-weight: bold;">"Love" key, metal butterfly, lace:</i> TheFunkieJunkie.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Metal clock face:</i> Tim Holtz <i style="font-weight: bold;">Fleur de lis charm:</i> Prima <i style="font-weight: bold;">Chipboard chain:</i> Dusty Attic "mini chains"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Clear acrylic dotted frame, metal word charms:</i> Making Memories <i style="font-weight: bold;">Pearls:</i> Recollections</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Flowers:</i> Prima, Wild Orchid Crafts, local craft store <i style="font-weight: bold;">Pink stamen clusters: </i>ChocolateLetters on Etsy</span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-13415661062879498602015-06-18T00:00:00.000-07:002015-06-18T00:00:08.663-07:00Shabby All Occasion - Cardabilities #125...Twice in recent weeks, a peek at the current <a href="http://cardabilities.blogspot.com/2015/06/sketch-125-new-design-team-reveal.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Cardabilities</span></a> sketch has been just what I needed to get my mojo working. Today's card is a bright, but shabby, all occasion card based on the current sketch - with one change - I turned the sketch upside down for fun!<br />
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Here's the finished card...<br />
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and here's the right-side-up current sketch that it's based on :) ...</div>
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The flowers in the cluster are all handmade using Spellbinders' Rose Creation dies - only this time, I didn't make them into roses. I used the three smallest dies in the set to color and form "generic" flowers, and used clusters of little pearl stamens in the centers. </div>
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I added white cheesecloth, and cheesecloth dyed to match the orchid purple flowers, to add texture under the flower cluster...</div>
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I love embellishing stick pins with pearls and spacers. In this case, a Maya Road leaf pin with my last pink jeweled spacer (now on a hunt to find more of these at a bead store somewhere!) and a couple pearls...</div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-50626279650455715872015-06-15T00:00:00.000-07:002015-06-15T00:00:09.013-07:00All Occasion Card - a Style Potpourri...Happy Monday, everyone! Today's share is a fun mix of styles - a bit freestyle collage, shabby chic, and mixed media - all in one little card.<br />
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The freestyle collage comes in with the lighthearted layering of mixed patterned papers and elements...the shabby chic with the distressed edges and subtle, vintage color mix...and the mixed media with a couple of coloring techniques on the background and the flower cluster...<br />
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The floral cluster starts with a couple large flat flowers that have been in my stash for a loooooong time. :) I stacked them, then added a crocheted lace piece and more paper roses. All the roses were lightly coated with a dry-brushed layer of gesso to soften the colors and blend them together in a shabby-chic way...</div>
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This center rose started out ecru in color, the same as the crocheted piece beneath it. I used Lindy's Stamp Gang C'est la Vie Cerise Magical to tint the rose to match the highlights of this Magical paint that I had used around the edges of the background patterend papers...</div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-64706767610266297792015-06-10T00:00:00.000-07:002015-06-16T17:19:12.761-07:00Grateful - Cardabilities #124Hello, again! I was feeling in the mood to make a layered, softly-colored, shabby-chic card, and when I ran across the current sketch at <a href="http://cardabilities.blogspot.com/2015/05/sketch-124-design-team-reveal-sponsor.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Cardabilities</span></a>, I knew it was a perfect inspiration that would be so much fun to play with.<br />
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Here's the finished card...<br />
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(and here's the inspiration sketch...)</div>
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This time, for a floral cluster, I used a couple mini gardenias, next to a small lily, and just a couple mini roses, all sitting inside a twine wreath (inspired by all those threads inside the circle on the sketch)...</div>
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and atop a chipboard heart and heart circle frame that are inked and coated with clear German glass glitter for a slightly sparkly, sugared look...</div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-63558865464095938882015-06-08T00:00:00.000-07:002015-06-08T00:00:14.381-07:00Mixed Media - Double the Fun...It's Mixed Media Monday on the blog, and I've got two projects to share with you today, so I hope you have a few minutes to sit back and enjoy the picture show. :)<br />
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First up, an all-occasion card made with one of my "smoosh papers" - a piece of mixed media paper literally "smooshed" onto a craft sheet covered with leftover colors from another project. In this case, it's Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays.<br />
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The piece was the perfect size for an A2 card, and I liked the way the colors distributed so much that I wanted a lot of it still showing after embellishing. I added only a bit of modeling paste through a Prima stencil in a random pattern, and a bright floral cluster. Instead of using leaves in the flower cluster, I pulled out an old fern punch for a fun change of pace...<br />
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Here are some closeups of the floral cluster...</div>
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It's an experimental blending of different types of mediums (more than an artful design). To my pleasant surprise, since I had never combined some of them before, they all worked together beautifully. (There was one experiment that didn't work out exactly as planned, though, which you might spot right away.)</div>
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I wanted to play with using die cuts for texture instead of art mediums and stencils...and I wanted to try to blend wax based color background mediums (Gelatos and Neocolor II watercolor crayons) with water-based spray colors (Lindy's Stamp Gang Flat Fabio spray) and various pens (Ranger Fudeball, Uni Posca, Uniball Signo)...</div>
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You'll notice there are some white splatters on the finished page. Instead of splashing white ink onto the finished pages, I wanted to see if liquid frisket would stand up to all the different product layers, and then come off smoothly when it was finished...and it did! The orange dots are the liquid frisket...</div>
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The next step was base color. I used Gelatos inside the circle diecuts on each page (I applied them in a circular design then used a wet watercolor brush to spread them through the circle), and the rest of the background is Neocolor II pencils applied much the same way - scribbled on, then spread with a larger wet watercolor brush.</div>
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There was a method to my madness with the butterflies. I added two colors inside the white diecuts on the background, and as you can see in the finished page, when I applied a second black diecut with raised wings over them, I ended up with dimensional butterflies with the colors under the black outline diecut - a fun technique... </div>
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Here are a few closeups showing the finished butterflies and a few other details. You'll see in the closeups how perfectly the liquid frisket came off after the pages were dried. :)</div>
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In this first one, you can see that I outlined the bottom butterflies in white for more accent. The hand drawn scallops around the edge were done with a black Fudeball pen, with white accents inside the scallops drawn with a UniBall Signo in white...</div>
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In this photo, you can see to the left and below the butterfly where I used a Lindy's Stamp Gang Flat Fabio spray (South Shore Sand) to shade and add some dimension to the scribble diecut texture and around some of the diecuts. I wasn't sure how, or if, it would adhere over the Neocolor II's, but it surely did. Even though the Neocolor II's are labeled as "wax pastels," they behave much like any other watercolor once they're dry...</div>
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Here's a closeup of one of the circle diecuts, colored with Gelatos and accented with black and white pens...</div>
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I also added some of the Lindy's Stamp Gang spray around the circle diecuts for shading, and randomly inside the honeycomb diecuts in the corners. (And yes, I glued the sequins on "upside down" because I liked the way the stamped creases on the back side mimicked the honeycomb pattern of the diecut. :) )...</div>
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Have you spotted the one step that didn't work exactly as I had hoped, but was worked around to a degree? Yep, it's the flowers on the lower left. I was curious how stenciled flowers would apply on top of textured diecuts. First I pulled out my black heavy gesso, then realized that wasn't much of a challenge, because of it's thicker consistency. So I went for broke and pulled out my bottle of regular black gesso...and boy was I in for some fun.</div>
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I was very careful...and I mean "very"...to make sure my stencil was flat on the top of the page, but I took a deep breath, and instead of using a sponge applicator (which is what I'd normally do with regular consistency gesso) I pulled out a small palette knife. And you probably know what happened next...seepage to the nth degree! LOL</div>
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But it wasn't so bad that I couldn't take the edge of the knife and pull out the edges of the flowers to look like large, spiky, blooms. And one advantage to the "seepage" is that the design doesn't just rest on top of the diecuts, but seeps down to the base of the page, making it a more continuous image (and at least now I know what will happen to the design with this technique...LOL)...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Color Mediums:</i> Faber Castell Gelatos; Caran d'Ache Neocolor II wax pastels; Lindy's Stamp Gang Flat Fabio "South Shore Sand"; Ranger Fudeball black pen;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Word stickers:</i> Tim Holtz "Small Talk" <i style="font-weight: bold;">Stencil:</i> Tim Holtz "Wildflower" <i style="font-weight: bold;">Miscellaneous: </i>sequins, small colored gems</span></div>
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I know what you're thinking...what's she doing here today? :) Well....<a href="http://prettypinkposh.com/2015/06/watercolor-blog-hop.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pretty Pink Posh</span></a> is having a fun...and I mean fun...watercolor blog hop through tomorrow evening, and I had to join in!<br />
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If you like watercolor cards, you need to follow that link I just gave you above and take a look at the entries so far. There are already over 300 beautiful cards to feast your eyes on!<br />
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Here's my humble addition to the hop...a clean and simple friendship card...<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-86938807600041074502015-06-04T00:00:00.000-07:002015-06-04T00:00:05.426-07:00Smile...It's another watercolor day here on the blog, and in contrast to Monday's technique and photo-heavy post, today's is clean and simple, like the card I'm sharing.<br />
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I had a couple different Unity Stamp Co. stamps that I wanted to combine and once they were finished, I realized I had the perfect Penny Black die to complement the sentiment...<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-24138236738871456312015-06-01T00:00:00.000-07:002015-06-01T00:00:06.864-07:00Art Journal - Be a ButterflyHappy Monday, everyone! This week is starting with a Mixed Media Monday art journal page share...and it's something a bit different for me. My art journals are little places to experiment and play, so not every layout is a "work of art"...more like a "work of wonder" as in "I wonder if this will work..." :)<br />
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I wanted to do something with my Indigo Blu/Limor Webber "Ink Splat Butterfly" stamp, and I wanted to pair it with a new Unity Stamp Co. butterfly quote stamp. But since I'd just about finished with another bright and sassy and experimental butterfly layout in my journal (you'll see that one next week), I wanted this one to be a bit moodier. (hmmm...wonder if the fact I was watching recorded "Falling Skies" episodes had anything to do with that...ha!)<br />
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Here's the finished layout in my small Dylusions journal...<br />
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The use of a lot of embossing powders, and paints with iridescence mixed with the flat paints and inks, gives this "moody" page a touch of brightness...here's a side view of the reflective surfaces...</div>
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Want to see how it evolved? The first step was to stamp and emboss the butterfly...I chose a couple different colors of embossing powder..so far, so good. Then I got an idea, so I masked the butterfly before applying the modeling paste through a brick stencil...</div>
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I wondered if this last step would give me the impression of looking through a hole in a brick wall at a butterfly flying in the distance. So I went ahead and colored the brick wall using a few different Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals, and shading with a few more...some flat, some iridescent...keeping the mask over the butterfly stamp as I painted the bricks and mortar...</div>
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Then I painted in the background colors with more Magicals...blue, orange and pink in the sky area, and more green and blue at the bottom. When I added some darker shading colors around the edge of the "hole," I started to see where I was headed with the layout. Mind you, I did think twice when I got finished with this step...I kind of liked the bright and happy feel to the page. So I let it simmer in my head overnight, while I did other things and wondered if I really wanted to take this in the direction I originally envisioned...</div>
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When I came back to it the next day, I looked at the wall and thought "no brick wall with a hole in it is going to look that neat...it needs some graffiti on it." So out came more embossing powders, and a Ranger Fudeball pen, and a script stencil to get me started with my letter shapes, and by now the page had a mind of its own and I was just going with the flow. I used some acrylic craft pigments to draw in some stems and tiny orange and magenta flower petals and leaves along the bottom edge..</div>
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At this point, all I needed to do was add some more shading, play around with those circles in the upper left, add some more texture with modeling paste, gussy up the butterfly, and add the sentiments...and that's how it ended up as in the top photo!</div>
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I used my Indigo Blu "Rugged Edge" stamp to get the embossed edges along the top. First I embossed with a dark blue powder, then topped with a lighter jade-slate powder. Here's a closeup of the two colors...at the top, the jade-slate deepened the blue, at at the bottom you can see how it's a beautiful green-grey shade...</div>
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Over in the right corner of the layout, I wanted some more circles, but not as heavy as those on the other page. So I pulled out one of my stencils and applied modeling paste through it...texture and some of a similar element on the opposite corner. (See that light "brown" at the upper left of this pic? That's the jade slate embossing powder over the orange paint...a totally different appearance when over the other color, but the same powder!)..</div>
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And finally, a closeup of the dressed up butterfly. Using a Fudeball pen, I drew inside the blue embossed circles on the wings to give them a textured look, outlined the outside, and added a strip of rhinestones through the center...</div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-63827292208017445152015-05-28T00:42:00.000-07:002015-05-28T00:42:31.552-07:00Hot Summer Pink...Hello again! The other day as I was putting away unused supplies and bits and pieces, I found an A2 sized piece that I had cut a round aperture into, and run through my brick wall embossing folder, then set aside when I changed my mind on the direction of the project I was working on. Of course, in the midst of my mini cleanup, I had an idea what I could do with the piece, so instead of continuing to straighten things up, I got to work making a mess again! :)<br />
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The round aperture I had cut turned out to be the right size for me to use one of my LaLa Land Crafts stitched circle dies to create a frame...and then the ideas kept coming, so I kept working...and this is the end product...<br />
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I used the same green ink that I used inside the aperture to color the edges of the white leaves and berries. It was a happy find to see that the lilies were the perfect color to go with the small hot pink roses...</div>
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The little punched butterflies were accented with pink Stickles and tiny pearls. I still get use from many of my older punches - it's one of the reasons I still hold on to many of my basic tools...you never know when they'll be perfect for a current project, and they're faster to use than setting up my electronic cutter for a last minute accent...</div>
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I pencil-traced the aperture onto the base of the card, and inside it I added some stamped leaves and pink stems that would coordinate with the flowers I planned to place on the top layer around the outside of the framed circle. Then I used foam tape to attach the top embossed layer to the card base...</div>
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And lastly, a couple closeups of the embellishments at the bottom of the card...</div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-35308583361913358952015-05-25T00:00:00.000-07:002015-05-25T03:12:03.423-07:00Happy Memorial Day...Happy Memorial Day Monday, everyone! To those who read my little crafty blog and have loved ones who were lost while in service to our country, I thank you for their service and selflessness, and sympathize with your loss and your sacrifices.<br />
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I'm starting this week off sharing a very frilly and softly-shabby all-occasion card, filled with flowers and fun embellishments...<br />
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It all started with the background paper...a very soft, buttery yellow and pale gray wood pattern. It's accented with white lacy touches and pale yellow roses, offset with the deeper turquoise and purple roses for a burst of color among the pales. </div>
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The small frame in the center is made with white air-dry clay that's painted with Old Silver and Hematite Viva Inka Gold paints to give it an aged, metallic look...</div>
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Here's another closeup of the frame detail. I first applied the Hematite (dark grey-blue) paint to the clay frame, and after letting it dry for just a couple minutes, finger-painted on the Old Silver (which is the buttery, pale yellow shade that was a perfect match for this card). After the Silver was applied, I rubbed the edges until some of the Hematite peeked through, making it look old and worn...</div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237009557992160261noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810799278546697795.post-650231773356930022015-05-21T00:00:00.000-07:002015-05-21T00:00:07.394-07:00Just Happy...Summer temperatures have me in the mood for lighter, softer colors mixed with bright white.<br />
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For today's card, I played again with what I call "altered edges." I used a die designed, I think, for straight edges, but I put them on a diagonal slant to add some fun layering to the front of the card...<br />
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At the top, a flower cluster of cream and white lilies, and aqua and white mini roses, sitting atop a loopy diecut doily, accented with lots of loopy twine bows and pearls...<br />
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