Fanciful Plantation

Fanciful Plantation

Hi Everyone!

What is that phrase? ......

Another day another doleur

(no its not dollar as we all believe)

anyway, no doleur here today

grab yourself a comfy seat and

maybe a cuppa too ...........and

relax.............Claire Jackson is

with us today and she's brought

with her a super project:

"Sprinkle the jade Infusions onto a 

sheet of white tissue paper and spritz lightly 

with water. Don’t over spritz it as the colour

 will run and you are aiming for the 

lovely speckled effect. 

Leave to dry or you can speed it up with a heat tool. 

Repeat for the other Infusions colours

Stamp the flowers, birds and bird house images 

in black permanent ink onto white tissue paper 

and heat set to ensure that they don’t 

smudge later on.

Paint the back of the stamped images 

with white chalk finish paint and leave to dry

When the paint is dry colour the front 

of the images with soft pencils

Cut or tear around the images.

To get a soft edge which will blend in 

invisibly you can draw a line around the image 

with a paintbrush and water and

 gently tear the paper.

Make sure the vase is clean and grease free. 

You can pick something up in a charity shop

or this one was very cheap from a supermarket.

Tear the coloured tissue paper into strips 

of varying lengths. 

The next stage gets very sticky so it’s best 

to have all of the paper prepared at the start.

Using your fingers smear collage medium 

onto a small area of the vase. 

Place a strip of tissue paper on top and

 smear collage medium over it, gently massaging it

 into the paper so that the tissue becomes translucent 

and the colour remains visible.

Work around the top of the vase placing strips 

of black knight and violet storms. 

Vary the length that they extend downwards.

Working from the bottom up add strips of emerald 

and a bit jaded so that they interlace with the strips 

coming down.

 Make sure there is plenty of medium to 

soak in and turn the tissue translucent.

In the same manner, using the collage medium, 

place the images around the vase, 

posing the quirky birds in and around the bird houses.

Add white dots with the enamel accents and 

touch up the bird’s eyes with a white paint pen.

 Leave it to dry thoroughly so that the collage

 medium seals in the tissue paper.

 Use it as a decorative vase by day or

 a candle holder by night!"

Materials used:

White tissue paper

PaperArtsy Infusions: a bit jaded, black knight, emerald isle, violet storms

PaperArtsy ElenazinskiArt: ZA05, ZA08

Versafine: onyx black

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: snowflake

Collage Medium: matte

Ranger Enamel Accents: glacier white

Coloured pencils

White paint pen

Glass vase

Beautiful project Claire, thank you.

Love how this technique breathes new

life into a piece of glassware that has

outworn its original purpose

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Street Art

Street Art

Hi there!

Loving the theme this week

today we have Claire Jackson

with a timely canvas 

"The street art theme lends itself to something 

a bit more grungy and masculine and the

Seth Apter stamps are perfect for this style. 

You could use this technique for a decorative canvas 

but I thought it would make a good clock background. 

Prime a 20x20cm canvas with snowflake paint 

and punch a hole in the centre

Use texture/embossing paste through a brick wall stencil. 

I put it in three main areas and left the centre clear.

Paint the canvas in chalk and buff paint. 

Make sure it’s completely dry before the next step

Place the stencil back in place and tape down. 

Use a stencil brush to stipple paint onto the raised areas. 

I used autumn fire, blood orange, claret and

chocolate pudding to build up a brickwork effect.

Don’t forget to extend the paint onto the sides of the canvas.

Gently rub a sponge with walnut stain and 

black soot Distress Ink over the brickwork 

so that it catches on the edges

Stamp the words onto tissue paper in yellow paint, 

outline with a black permanent pen 

and paint white paint on the back. 

Stamp other images in black ink and add 

paint to the back of the tissue. 

Tear around the images to create a soft edge.

Decide where the tissue images are to go 

and paint collage medium on the canvas. 

Stick the images on and add a layer of

 collage medium on top. 

Gently rub with a finger so that the

medium sinks in and the tissue becomes transparent.

Add more stamping in paint and darken the 

edges further with Distress Ink.

 I added in a little green to lift the colours. 

When it’s all dry add the clock mechanism."

Materials used:

Canvas
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint
Embossing paste
Wall stencil
PaperArtsy Seth Apter stamps: ESA01
Tissue paper
Archival Ink: jet black
Collage medium: matte
Distress Ink
Clock parts

Thank you Claire for a

great project - one for

the boys!  Tomboys even!

Who says the menfolk

are difficult to create for?

Send them here, we'll

show them how it's done!!

'till tomorrow

Mickie

Collage

Collage

Hi there!

How're you doing?

Good I hope.

It's all good here

Ae you enjoying the Collage

theme as much as I am?  Some

great ideas here for sure and to 

keep things going, here is a

collage from Jane Castle

When the topic of collage appeared on the DT’s list I

 had a vague idea as to what I wanted to make 

but decided to look up the definition in the dictionary;

Collage - a form of art in which 

various materials are arranged 

and glued down to a backing.

Hmmm, lets begin ---

For my base or backing I started with a small 

chunky hanging  board 

which was given a coat of white gesso.

The first layer was made up of a torn page 

from an old dictionary, 

some tissue tape and a pot of 

distress collage medium in matte finish

Once the medium was dry I sprayed parts 

with a mix of 50/50 Distress reinker and water. 

The next layer was then added 

and this time I used the vintage collage medium.

A strip of lace was added to the top.

The paper, tissue tape and lace was added to all 4 sides of the board.

I then tore some areas from a sheet of Imagination Crafts Rice paper 

and added these with the vintage medium. 

Paint was applied to the lace in Inky Pool 

and a dry brush with some Snowflake paint was added 

to the main area to tone the turquoise down slightly.

The side was stamped using a Lavinia trailing ivy stamp and peeled paint DI.

Treasure pewter was applied to the lace at the top.

Then using just the flower seeds of the Lavinia stamp 

I randomly stamped the top and the lefthand side

 using Archival watering can ink

Next using this gorgeous stamp set from Carabelle Studio 

I stamped the images onto waxed tissue paper in

archival inks and using clear embossing powder, 

heat embossed the images.

Parts of the images were also stamped onto coloured card 

ready to cut out and add to the whole images 

once they were stuck on the base.

The tissue paper stamped images were coloured

on the under side using Sakura Gelly Roll pens 

as I was not sure as to whether the inks would bleed 

once the distress medium was applied.

I found a couple of tiny wooden flowers 

which I gave a coat of embossing to

and added some Treasure gold to the edges 

The sentiment was stamped onto some shrink plastic

then once shrunk stuck onto some gold card and 

Treasure Gold added to the very edges to disguise the 2 layers.

I made a tassel and threaded a couple of wooden beads

 and a metal jewellery spacer together 

and added these to the top righthand edge

My only regret with this project is that 

depending on the light it’s not always clear 

that the top righthand piece of rice paper 

is a bird sitting in a nest ---- 

but then it does make you look more closely!!!

Material List

Carabelle Studio Stamps

Lavinia Stamps

Treasure Gold

Imagination Crafts Rice Paper

Sakura Pens

Tim Holtz Collage Medium

Tim Holtz Tissue Tape

Archival Ink

Tim Holtz Reinker

Waxed tissue Paper

Shrink Plastic

Lovely project Jane.  Liked the dictionary

definition too

That's all for today folks.........

See you all again tomorrow

Mickie xx