Each month with Imaginarium Designs we have a theme for one of our projects and this month the theme is "Cards/Tags". I've created a set of 4 masculine cards using lots of gorgeous Imaginarium Designs chipboard.
Whenever I need to make a card I try and make 3-4 of a similar style - using similar colours and techniques. I never have enough boys cards so I used blue, black and green colours on my background.
For the first 2 cards I
chose 3 Dylusions ink sprays (2 blue and black colours) and I sprayed randomly across the card. While it was still wet I flicked water on the page, then I used paper towel to dab off the excess. Then I sprayed water through 2 different stencils and again used a paper towel to dab off excess. I also sprayed black ink through a stencil, then flipped the stencil over and "stamped" it randomly on the card to use up the excess ink.
I sprayed the chipboard with black ink so it would be a feature and stand out on the card. Lastly I attached some twine and a sentiment.
For these next 2 cards I
chose blue, green and black Dylusions ink sprays and I sprayed randomly across the card. I then used the same tecniques of flicking water on the card and spraying water through a stencil then dabbing off the excess with paper towel. I love the grungy and random look of these backgrounds. Perfect for masculine and teenage projects.
I played around with spraying different colours and using stencils on the chipboard embellishments but was preferred the look when they were just a matt black. I've added some glossy accents on the present chipboards for some variation.
Imaginarium Designs chipboard I've used includes
4 presents on board : code IDT0008
Loolabelles circular cross hatch : code IDD0025
Loolabelles nested arrows : code IDDL0018
Stars board : code IDT0036
Thanks so much for stopping by
Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn
Happy Mothers Day!!!
I hope all the mothers are enjoying a lovely day with your families and maybe having a moment for some creative crafty time :)
Today I have some Art Journal pages to share with you and a little step-by-step, made using lots of goodies from Scrapping Clearly.
I'm part of one of the "Circle Journal" groups organised by Scrapping Clearly where we have all made a journal out of brown paper bags (yes! can you believe it!!). We have decorated the cover and a page inside then we send it on to other members of the group. In 12 months time it will make its way home to me with pages decorated by all the other lovely people in the group - how fun!!!
I thought I would share how I made one of the pages in my circle journal.
Firstly I painted a layer of white gesso on my page. When this was dry I applied texture paste through a stencil.
Next I selected the Dylusions ink colours I wanted to use.
I did not want to spray the inks on though. I wanted to drip them. You could do this with a pipette, a paintbrush or just the end of the nozzle from the spray. I propped my journal up and added the inks a bit at a time, letting it slowly drip down the page. At times I also sprayed water along the top of the page to spread the ink.
I played around with the inks for a while and ended up with this.
On the facing page I used a stencil and applied 5 different colours of Colour Blast pastes. I just love these pastes - they are lovely and thick and shimmery!
This is how I finished up my pages. I kept it relatively simple as I just loved the backgrounds and didnt want to cover them up.
The theme of my journal is "Positive affirmations" - so I chose this simple quote for my page.
I've also added some paint splat stamps across my page and some background stamps along the edges.
I love the detail of the dripping ink pooling and moving around the textured patterns.
Scrapping Clearly products I've used include
Dylusions ink sprays Stencils
KaiserCraft stamps
Colour Blast pastes
Gesso
Texture Paste
Thanks so much for stopping by
Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn
Hi Lovelies!
Today Scrapping Clearly are having a cybercrop in celebration of National Scrapbooking Day. They have a range of challenges and heaps of prizes. If you enter all of the challenges you could be eligible to win Queen of the crop and win a 12" MINC - can you believe it!!
There are 6 challenges and I've provided the inspiration for Challenge #4 - to create a layout using stencils.
See the Scrapping Clearly facebook group here for all the details on other challenges and entry deteils.
There are so many ways you can use stencils. you can use them with inks, paints or sprays. You can trace around them with a pencil or marker, you can use them with texture paste. You can spray them on one side then "stamp" the reverse side onto you paper for the negative image (and to use up all the spray left behind!).
I cant wait to see how you all use stencils!
For my layout I've used a photo of my cutie girls and created a grungy, arty background using stencils and Dylusions ink sprays.
I've used a sheet of White/Marshmallow heavy weight cardstock for my background - I just love this cardstock, nice and thick and perfect for mixed media projects.
I've used a few different stencils (you can easily mix and match whatever you have in your collection) on my background. Here you can see a few of the stencil patterns. I firstly sprayed over the stencil with a single colour then flipped the stencil over and stamped it across my page until most of the spray was used. Then I got another stencil and repeated with a different colour.
I matted my photo on a patterned paper scrap and black cardstock to separate it from the background.
This section of the background has lots of negative "stamps" from the stencils - I love the random patterns you get using this method (and there is no ink wasted).
I've also added some stencil patterns using texture paste - it is a subtle effect (that is hard to see in the photo) but it all adds to the overall effect. I've also used a black pencil to gently draw around many of these textured stencil patterns.
Lastly I've added some stamps to my page and some chipboard embellishments. The wire mesh chipboard was painted using black gesso. The other chipboard was first painted in white gesso then Dylusions ink sprays were painted on.
Scrapping Clearly products I've used include
Marshmallow heavy weight cardstock
Dylusions ink sprays
The Crafters Workshop stencils
KaiserCraft #me acrylic stamps
Heidi Swapp abc black glitter thickers
Pink Paislee "Cedar Lane" gold glitter paper arrows
I've also used some Imaginarium Designs chipboard embellishments.
I print my photos on an Epson XP-600 printer.
Thanks so much for stopping by
Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn
