Sunday 16 August 2015

Altered double wooden frame

This is a small double frame that I used for a recent workshop at my local craft store, The Art of Craft. We focussed on making the frame look shabby and creating the front and back panels as mixed media layers using gesso, acrylic paints, die-cuts, stamps and distress inks, embellishing the front with some shabby flowers.



The outside panels were layered with a coat of gesso, brighter colours of acrylic paints, die cuts added and then everything brayered over with white paint before stamping with black archival ink and then dipping in victorian velvet and dried marigold distress inks and then lastly dipped in some watery white acrylic paint.

I needed to keep the inside fairly simple a) as it was a morning only workshop and we had to get all of this made in three hours and b) I wanted this to close flat so embellishing and texture was out of the question. I added some vintage photos that are free for downloading off the internet.


For the inside backgrounds for the photos I blended distress inks over white card, sponged some white acrylic through a stencil and then spritzed it with water and flicked some watery vintage photo Di over it before drying

I also splattered some white acrylic paint and vintage photo over the frame.


I left this frame at the shop for display and made another whilst demoing and teaching adding photos of my children when they were little when I got home..


I changed the colour scheme as it's always good to show workshop participants how they can make changes to their projects as they are creating them.



I took photos of the fronts of everyone's finished frames which are superb. You can see the similarities and differences in their finished designs.








They all enjoyed the session getting messy with all the layers they were adding and I loved teaching such enthusiastic and creative ladies. I'm already thinking about the autumn workshops and what to teach.




Have a great Sunday and thanks for stopping by.

hugs Brenda xxx



8 comments:

Deb said...

Beautiful Brenda, love the layers of colour on the outside frame as well as the lovely layered flowers. The inside panels are very striking with their stenciled backgrounds and beautiful vintage images. Wonderful creations from all of the class participants, can't wait to see what you create for the autumn workshop!

rachel said...

absolutely wonderful workshop pieces both from teacher snd pupils. really lovely brenda xx

Patty O'Malley said...

What beautiful projects, Brenda! Great idea!

Mrs.B said...

What a wonderful frame Brenda, no wonder the ladies enjoyed their workshop. It was nice to see your two versions.
Avril xx

Meggymay said...

A gorgeous frame Brenda, everyone looks gorgeous, you all must have had loads of crafting fun.
Yvonne

Juliz Design Post said...

Looks like a brilliant workshop, love the design and results from everyone.
Julie x

Words and Pictures said...

Lovely shabby chic frames, Brenda - another great class-full of projects. I adore your pinky version (hope I'm not getting girly in my old age...).
Alison xx

pearshapedcrafting said...

Wow! Brilliant results from everyone! Would have loved to have been at this workshop myself!! Chrisx