Crackled Glass

 

 

Good morning, happy Saturday. Kirsten here again, covering Lisa's Saturday post while she's on honeymoon.

 

I wanted to see if the Imagination Crafts' crackle medium would work on glass & it did, as long as you prepare the surface first..............

 

 

 

 

Start with a clean surface & brush on a very thin coat of a matte medium - I used Mod Podge, this will give the CM something to stick to. Leave it air dry thoroughly. Once it's dry, brush on the crackle medium. I varied the amount I used; more on some areas than others. Again, leave it to air dry thoroughly.

 

When the crackle is completely dry, brush on your chosen acrylic paint. Try for even strokes & don't go back over the paint, this stops the crackle from happening. The cracks should start appearing immediately.................

 

 

 

I painted the bottle with Silkies - Sunshine Satin, Sunset Satin & Tuscan Satin & added gold stickles. And because I couldn't leave the bottle empty, I made two OTT flowers from the Woodware

Clear Magic stamp 'Georgina' & its mini version, some painted card & chopsticks............

 

 

 

 

 

                           

 

 

Thanks for looking. I think that's the last of my crackle medium projects, I'll be back tomorrow with something else.

 

Kirsten

Masked Layers

 

 

**This post is part of the Crackle Medium promotion fortnight. Remember to leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway.**

 

Happy Tuesday to everyone. Lots of photos in today's post, so I'll try to keep the words to a minimum.......

 

 

 

Crackle medium, then MS Putty acrylic paint over a dark blue background. Not a good crackle, but I liked the smooth area at the top left.....

 

 

 

 

MS Sea Lavender paint through Imagination Crafts' Wall stencil.......

 

 

 

Stamped the Woodware Clear Magic mini flower with Stazon ink, also made a mask of it............

 

 

Masked the mini flower, stamped Woodware 'Georgina' on top...........

 

 

Masked that & stamped a Card-io Collection Greenery 1 stamp with permanent green ink........

 

 

Removed the masks.........

 

 

 

 

Time to start colouring............

 

 

 

I used Promarkers.........

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sentiment is from the Woodware Clear Magic Delicate Daisies stamp set. I added a scribbled border & a Hobby House brad, matted the card onto a square of blue core'dinations, then onto a 7x7 white card blank................

 

 

 

 

                

 

 

Thanks for looking. Don't forget the current blog challenge, we would love to see your crackle projects.  Until next time, happy crafting.

 

Kirsten

 

 

 

 

 

Slightly Psychedelic

 

 

Good morning blog visitors, Kirsten here. I hope you're all enjoying the bank holiday weekend. For my card today I used Adirondack inks again.......

 

 

 

I knew I would be using quite a lot of water for the background so I taped a piece of watercolour card to the larger of the two blending mats with a heavy duty masking tape - watercolour card/paper will buckle when wet, so the usual stencil tape wouldn't be strong enough to hold the card flat......

 

 

 

 

I swiped plenty of ink onto my craft sheet, making sure to keep the colours separate. I used Sunset Orange, Raspberry & Pool, from the Adirondack Brights collection........

 

 

 

I liberally spritzed the watercolour card with water & also used a wet, tapered paintbrush to apply the inks.........

 

 

 

I added more water & tilted the card this way & that to get the inks to run, until I was happy, then set the card aside to dry..........

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to add white to the card, but couldn't use acrylic paint as it would absorb the colours from the inks & gesso would have been too white & too solid, so instead I used the Versacolor white ink pad & applied it through the Imagination Crafts Bubble stencil.............. 

 

 

 

 

 I dried the ink with my heat tool, then put the stencil down again so that I could overlap some of the bubbles............

 

 

 

 

I stamped the Woodware Clear Magic 'Georgina' flower with embossing ink onto

Anna Marie Designs black card, heat set it with WOW Bright White embossing powder, cut it out & used a craft knife to cut out the inner sections of the petals........

 

 

 

I attached the flower to the card with a Hobby House brad & pinched the petals slightly to give the flower a little dimension..........

 

 

 

I stamped the sentiment with Stazon black ink & the Alphabet Typed clear stamp set from Hobby Art, removed the white edges from the watercolour card, backed it with a piece of blue core'dinations card & then onto a 6x6 white card blank............

 

 

 

                                                                 

 

I had some ink left over & I will be back tomorrow to show you the cards I made with it. Until then, happy crafting.

 

Kirsten