Last Friday I had another fabulous skype crafty session with lovely friends Nikki Acton and Alison Bomber. We have these sessions every now and again where we capitalise on having a longish space of time to work cooperatively together. Our previous encounters have seen us choose the 'next steps' in turn but Nikki pushed us to do something completely different this time. We agreed to work on tags and to collect our materials together first and then allow ourselves the freedom to just create with the limited supplies.
Each of us could pick two things to work with. It went like this - Nikki - 4 colours of paint, Alison - a stamp set Brenda - a stencil, Nikki - any item purchased/acquired recently, Alison - 4 colours of ink, Brenda - your choice of die-cuts/punches.
We gathered our choices together and showed each other what we had chosen and also agreed we could have a wild card to choose one other thing along the way and each of us could you each others' choices as well as our own. These ended up with Nikki choosing a white posca pen, Alison chose Words and I chose rub-ons.
Here were my choices -
Andy Skinner stamps and paints
Tim Holtz dies/die-cuts
And so off we went creating our own masterpieces, deciding our own steps as we went along and even though we were in lockdown, we could still enjoy each others' company.
I took a few photos straight from the desk, so not the best!
The tags were sealed with the white paint, blended with grey haze and brayered with mustard seed.
Next I used a palette knife to scrape on titanium white and then mixed some of that with leftover grey haze and splattered it all over before again using the brayer and white.
I used my stencil and created patterns on each tag using different colours and used the stamps also with paint to add more interest
I brayered a little more white, sanded the edges and blended in burnt umber drawing ink.
I took the die-cut wildflowers and used all the paints to create washes to colour them up and I also brayered white over a few of the blooms.
The borders were give the same treatment as the flowers and I die-cut the wreaths from coredinations papers.
As we were coming towards the finishing stage I used words as chosen by Alison and some rub-ons that I chose as my wild card.
We all agreed we could add some twine in the tag holes and once finished I found there was only one thing I didn't use and that was the bird die.
Thank you to both Alison and Nikki for their time and contributions to the day and making it fun to create with each other on video calling.
If you would like to see both their finished tags you can find them here
Nikki
Alison
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Nikki
Alison
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xxx
