Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Charming


This page, featuring an image of my granddaughter from last July (all credit goes to my daughter-law and her wonderful photography skills) is the last of the projects that I created with the February Kit from Tres Jolie.


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To recapture the look of the photo, I started by cutting the More Roses Please paper into strips of varied widths that I roughed up the edges with a Distrezz-It-All and adhered to my base. Next, I used a blending tool and a stencil to create a “screen” under my photo.


The chipboard piece was given a thick coat of gesso and immediately covered with embossing and heated (a trick I learned from Rae Moses). When the powder was set and cooled, I sanded here and there and applied distress ink over the entire piece to give it a worn look.

I matted my photo with a lot of layers of cut-outs and ephemera and scraps, first lightly distressing and inking all of the edges to give everything some definition and dimension.


Time to embellish: I used most of the flowers that were left over, along with some fussy cut leaves, to embellish the “Charming” resin gear that I selected for my title.


As a last step, I added a few flowers and leaves to the upper corner to mimic the single leaf in the upper corner of the photo.


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*****Supplies*****

***Paper***
Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Feather Collector #849009
Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – More Roses Please #849108
Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Traveling Tickets #849092
Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Rose Receipts #849023
13 @rts – Aqua Flora Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Countless Love #616528

***Embellishments***
Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – Flower Embellishments – Dark Romance #637866
Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – Flower Embellishments – This Place #637903
Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – Ephemera 1 with Foil Accents #636043
Prima Marketing – Resin Collection – Resin Icons in Wood Box – Gears #573348
Creative Embellishments – Laser Cut Chipboard – Heart Flourish

***Mediums***
Prima Marketing – Finnabair – Art Basics – Clear Gesso #961466
Ranger – Embossing Powder – Antiquities – Verdigris #EPJ37569
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink Pads – Mini – Walnut Stain #131325

***Tools***
Stampers Anonymous – Tim Holtz – Layering Stencil – Burlap #THS007
Zutter – Distrezz It All – Electric Distressing Tool
Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – Paper Distresser
Ranger – Mini Ink Blending Tool - Round

***Other***
Duncan Enterprises – Aleen’s Original Tacky Glue



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As always, I want to thank you for peeking into my blog; your visits mean a lot to me.

Monday, March 4, 2019

Rock Star!


This image of Mr. V. The Rock Star! that my daughter-in-law sent me obviously calls for a bit of grunge and lots of gears… The February kit from Tres Jolie was the perfect source for both.


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 I tore the 13 @rts Shades of Black paper into several pieces and layered them with alternate sides facing up and added scraps of the Countless Love sheet, along with a bit of 7 Gypsies packaging here and there before adhering my photo.


Next came the layers of gears along with a few brackets – all resin pieces from Prima. I added the Iron Fence sticker from 7 Gypsies (the source of that packaging) to one side.

 I added a couple of feathers from the Dark Romance package of flowers to embellish the gears, then the silver trinket that I toned down with Metallique Wax.

To complete the grunge, I splattered my page with a few of the concentrated watercolors that were included in the Mixed Media kit.

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*****Supplies*****

***Paper***
13 @rts – Aqua Flora Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Shades of Black #616535
13 @rts – Aqua Flora Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Countless Love #616528
Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Old Maps #849016

***Embellishments***
Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – Flower Embellishments – Dark Romance #637866
Prima Marketing – Resin Collection – Resin Icons in Wood Box – Gears #573348
Prima Marketing – Resin Collection – Resin Icons in Wood Box – Words #573362
7 Gypsies – Architextures – Iron Fence #7G25024
Tres Jolie – Silver Trinket – Feather

***Mediums***
Tsukineko – Memento Ink – Tuxedo Black #ME900
Prima Marketing – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Metallique Wax – Bronze Age #964023
Prima – Art Philosophy – Concentrated Watercolor – Bora Bora #633806
Prima – Art Philosophy – Concentrated Watercolor – Onyx #633813

***Other***
Scotch – Extra Strength Tape Runner
Art Institute – Art Glitter – Liquid Adhesive

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As always, I want to thank you for peeking into my blog; your visits mean a lot to me.