Beer Mat Mini Book

I was in need of a messy play so I added all sorts of textures to these beer mats. Texture sand paste mixed with ultra matte medium (this just helps the sand paste stick better), fibre paste, modelling paste with micro beads mixed in and modelling paste using a pallet knife to make peaks.

I painted them with various DecoArt products from the media range until I achieved the look I wanted for each piece. I stamped in everlasting chalky paint to lighten them up a bit and give a bit of contrast, added a few die cut pieces and people images. Once finished I added the idea-olog words and then randomly added gold interference paint and wow, this stuff is fab, you can't see it until it dries.

Close up of the interference gold over the rust effect.

I mounted each mat onto a piece of white paper that I'd painted with a mix of espresso and black dazzling metallics and scrunched to make into a mini book.

Front cover and inside.

Front and back covers.

Close up of three of the pages.

Close up of the texture and gold interference.

All products are from the DecoArt range.

Triptych Teesha Style

I had a bit of a brain wave last night and rushed off to gesso three square coasters, I didn't get any further as Fraz wasn't happy I'd moved, so I had to retreat back to the settee so he could sit on me through the rest of the fireworks!! So this morning I painted them in dylusions paints, but it wasn't thick enough and you could still see the writing on the beer mats, so I went over them with the Dina Wakley heavy bodied paints, that sorted them out. Made the border from odd bits and bobs and then created my main image.

Stuck the middle section on first and then cut the top and bottom off the main image and lined them up on the respective mats. Outlined the image with a black fude ball pen as it works great over Dina's paints, added a few lines and doodles and filled in the backgrounds with a white sharpie pen.

Once I'd taken the previous photo above, I decided it needed more doing to it, so I added some colour to the cheeks and some freckles. Spruced up the hair a bit more, gave the shoes a colour lift and added a few dots to the borders.

Over at PaperArtsy they have a theme of triptych and Stampotique have a theme of bright colours.

Window Box Box

I was inspired to make this box out of T!m's window box die when I saw this below that Eileen had created.  

She showed a photo of it on twitter.  Hers was obviously based around a Halloween theme.

I used various dies, the branch tree was kindly cut and sent to me by another twitter buddie, Kirsten. I painted it in mocha mousse fresco paint and added a bit of black dress.

The T!m Carol Singers were cut and sent to me by yet another twitter friend, Lin.  They were cut from black card and I left them as they were as I wanted silhouettes. 

The T!m lamp post was cut by me but the die actually belongs to my mate Maz.  I painted it in elephant fresco and again added some black dress.  I actually have the on the edge fence die and I cut it from silver textured card.

The sills were used on the top, coloured in black and heat embossed with vanilla wow powder, using the PA mini flourish.

The windows were cut from chipboard, painted in little black dress fresco and stamped with the PA brick wall mini in cloud white versa magic ink.

Everything is sat on a beer mat painted black.

I'm sharing this project over at Altered Eclectics for their anything goes theme for October.

Stampotique Alterations

Over on the Stampotique Designers Challenge this week the theme is alter it.  My two pieces started off life as a beer mat.

Simon Says Paint it Up

Simon Says Stamp and Show are asking to see some paint!!  I gesso'd a couple of beer mats and painted them with a few coats of sunset orange Ranger dabber paint and put citrus through some sequin waste.  I stamped Heart Throb onto a separate piece of card and coloured him with Adirondack pens.  I stuck him onto the beer mat, masked him off and stamped the picket fence in black stazon.

Painted in the same way as above, stamped in black stazon the Stampotique row of faces and the swirl stalks.  Head and Titus were stamped onto separate pieces of card, coloured and cut out.  Titus was stamped onto the background for his arms, legs and hair and his cut out body was matched up!!

JFF - Week 22 - Anything Goes

Well not quite for the JFF DT this week.  Instead we decided to pair up, send each other a few random bits and pieces and using at least five, the challenge was to make something with what you'd been sent.  Above is a selection of what I got from Zoe.

And here is what I came up with.  I used the beermat as the base and coloured it with copper acrylic dabbers.  I unravelled the blue plastic coated paperclip and coloured that with the same colour.  The two pieces of wood I covered in hazelnut dabber and stamped with black soot.  The beermat was stamped with script from PBS again in black soot and also edged in the same colour.  The piece of embossed chipboard at the bottom was also coloured with the copper and swiped over with the black soot.  I cut the paperclip and made it into a couple of hangers for the top and bottom.  I arranged the pieces of wood and placed the metal leaf on the top.

Hilda sent me some jigsaw shaped beer mats which I decorated for a few friends using my new Adirondack Dimensional Pearls. They are like metallic acrylics - fab!!

I used them for the flower and diamonds on this one

The outline of the girl and the flowers on this one

To outline the image on this one

I used this quote for the back of them all

Beer Mats

Bridie has just opened a new craft shop, even though she already has a very successful online craft shop. She wanted some beer mats to show in the shop and decorate her door frame with. These are some of the fronts and backs of a few that I've made for her

Beer Mat Book for Sue

Made this beer mat book for Sue as she liked the one I made for Julia

Travel Beer Mat Book

This is a travel beer mat book that I have just made using mostly my new Paperartsy structure and arched aperture plates and my Prima journalling stamps. I used distressed re-inkers and perfect pearls to create the backgrounds of the inside pages by putting them in spritzer bottles, adding water, shaking and spraying

My Name is ...... Swap

Front and back pages

Joined in a 'My Name Is ...' swap on Lotstodo forum. I was given Julia, so I made her a beer mat book. I covered the beer mats with papers, added images, stamping and embellishments. This is one of the items I made earlier but couldn't show as I wanted her to see it IRL before I blogged it