This panel stated life as a sample for the Stitches Trade show back in February. I used DecoArt media paints and mediums with some of Andy Skinner's stamps including the new Gothic Grunge set.
Process steps
1.
Seal with tinting base.
2.
With a plastic card scrape
small amounts of cadmium orange, diarylide yellow, pyrrole red, titan buff, titanium white across the substrate, first in one direction then in the other.
3.
Using the same colours plus raw
umber use two different stencils and blend and bump them to create different tones of pattern across the background. (Tando small dots and swirl)
4.
Dribble the leftover paints
top to bottom and dry between colours.
5.
Add some cobalt teal to titan
buff and repeat step 4.
6.
Take a small piece of card and
monoprint with titan buff and titanium
white and watch the card pull off onto the substrate.
7.
With a palette knife scrape
some white crackle paste around the edges of the board.
8.
When dry rub some teal
antiquing cream into it and rub of again.
9.
Stamp using titan buff, raw
umber and pyrrole red stamp some text across the background.
10.
Stamp arch onto tissue paper
and adhere to the background and add some remnant rub words.
11.
Seal with a coat of satin
varnish.
Now I have used it to make a small handbound sketch/watercolour book. For speed and efficacy I added some patterned paper to another board and sealed it with the satin varnish.
Having bound the pages using a coptic stitch so the book will lie flat when it is being used I bound the spine with white tape and glued the first and last pages to the inside covers.
This is now ready to go in my shop space.
Keep the creativity in your HeART.
