Paper Dolls panel

 Adding to my Butterflies, Bees and Moths Creative Sketchbook

Whilst pulling together ideas and a large number of designs for a workshop next month, some made the cut and others didn't.

I'm teaching my take on Creative Sketchbooking on the 17th and 18th of July at Country View Crafts headquarters.  Thursday the 17th July is sold out but there are some spaces on Friday 18th. Bookings can be made here. 

 This was one of the experimental projects I made that didn't make the cut, but I will add it to the sketchbook later along with some other bits and pieces I have left over. It will be good to add them as they are still important being part of the creative process and decision making.

Paper Dolls panel 

Cut panel 10 x 8 cms punch rounded corners. Paint surface with gesso – dry. Using small sponge blend over a mixed colour to your liking.

Dip into puddle of hickory smoke, dry and blend same ink round edges.

Stamp bug with watering can archival ink.

Gather dolls and blend ground espresso round them and the same with snippets.

Add something to ground the girls I used the small alphabet strip.

I will add the actual Creative Sketchbook pages here after the workshop in July. 

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Travel CVC June #1

 Travel Panel

A panel using mostly Tim Holtz products for the 'Travel' June challenge at Country View Crafts FM group.

Using paper dolls I have made up a family who are travelling to Paris for their summer holidays.

1. Using watercolour card stamp Eiffel Tower -Watering Can and then stamp Paris stamp background - Cornflower Blue.  Dip background into watery tattered rose distress ink and dry. Blend vintage photo distress ink round edges and drag the edges through black archival ink.

2. Make suitcases from distress background, die-cut and make up.

3. Find Paper Dolls as focal point. Give them a coat of collage medium. When dry paint in tattered rose, aged mahogany and vintage photo oxides.

4. Gather snippets and Remnant Rubs for details.

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Supplies

Distress Oxides - Tattered Rose, Saltwater Taffy, Hickory Smoke, Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany,

Distress Inks - Walnut Stain, Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany.

TH Mediums - Collage Medium.

TH Salvaged Tags, Ephemera, Paper Dolls, Word Chip, Snippets, Remnant Rubs

TH Stamps - Paris Memoir CMS159

TH Dies - Bigz Baggage Claim, 

Ranger Archival Inks - Coffee, Cornflower Blue, Watering Can, Black

Washi Tape

Alison Bomber workshop playtime

 I went to Country View Crafts to see my friend Alison Bomber as she was doing a workshop there I didn't participate in the workshop but I have had fun recreating some of the  samples and techniques she did with the participants,with my own twists of course. (I can't provide process steps as these were Alison's steps. not mine)

This part of the workshop was about creating three backgrounds using her berries stencil, three paints - see listed below, and infusions.

Add a collage of snippets, text/titles and paperdolls.

Supplies

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint - midnight, rose, antarctic plus snowflake

Alison's stencil Berries PS 452

Tim Holtz - paper dolls,

Snippets mostly from Love Junk Journals online

Titles handmade.

Uni pin fineline pen 0.2

Aged, Weathered, Distressed. CVC May #2

 Aged and distressed wallpaper

These are the steps I used to create what I've called distressed wallpaper and used it in a project using the fabulous Tim Holtz clip board die.

Take a palette knife and drag white gesso over the surface of your card and leave to dry. Using a soft cloth rub some paint over the surface keeping it thin and light.

Use a heavy duty sander to scrape around the edges and really distress them 

Take vintage photo distress ink and make a puddle and dip the edges in, leave to dry.

Cut and distress three clipboards and the faux metal clips.

Sand the silver clips, rub vintage photo distress ink pad over them and finish the top one with a distress crayon.

Adhere the the clipboards together and attach the clip (See the Tim Holtz video oh how to put this clipboard together.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnCfC97bOM )

I also added a small custom fastener with a butterfly in it.

I took an offcut from my bits box to create the mount for the photobooth picture of the girls, inked the edges and sewed down the sides

The edges of the photo of the girls was scraped with scissors then dipped into vintage photo DI mixed with vintage collage medium and dried. I added colour to them by using the same technique I used on the first May project using DIs mixed with matte collage medium.

I scraped some crackle paste over media card using a palette knife and left it overnight.

The next day a rubbed over a victorian velvet DI pad .....

.....  then rubbed it back with a wet wipe.

I sanded the edges and blended in ground espresso DI and gently rubbed in some artisan powder and wiped it back with a damp cloth.

Run the background through the big shot in texture fade embossing folder. Then dip into victorian velvet and stormy ski distress inks and dry.

Supplies

TH Sizzix dies - Vault Noteworthy, Specimen, 

TH Distress Inks - Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Ground Espresso, Tattered Rose, Stormy Sky, Victorian Velvet.

PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish paint - Blah Mange, Lake Wanaka

Ranger TH - Distress Crayon Vintage Photo,

TH Mediums - Distress Collage Medium Vintage, Distress Collage Medium Matte,

TH - Idea-ology - Remnant Rubs Words,

TH Idea-ology Custom Pin

TH Sizzix - Texture Fade - Dotted

Prima Artisan Powder - Paris Rose

Aged, Weathered, Distressed, TimeWorn. CVC May #1

 Weathered Shabby Panel and collage

Happy May Day

I have chosen the theme for the CVC FaceBook challenge and it's to create a project that looks aged, weathered, distressed or timeworn.

AGED - to have become old and showing some age.

WEATHERED - worn by long exposure to the atmosphere; weather beaten.

DISTRESSED - having simulated marks of age and wear.

TIMEWORN- damaged or made less interesting or attractive as a result of age or much use.

My panel is vintage, shabby, distressed, looking aged and timeworn. I think I covered the brief.

Seal surface with a layer of gesso. Dry.

Paint a layer of brown acrylic Fresco Finish paint. Dry.

Stamp and clear emboss. 

Paint over with a lighter colour. Dry but leave it still a little tacky.

Wipe over with a wet wipe to remove the paint from the embossing and rub harder over the painted areas to reveal some of the brown showing through underneath.

Dip into watery puddles of brown distress inks and dry.

Sand around the edges and rub over with vintage photo distress ink ink.

This creates a shabby, weathered, distressed background.

Gather together items to create a collage.

I paint the moths with collage medium to take off the shine, I much prefer matte items.

I painted on a little green distress ink, mixed with collage medium, to the dress on the paper doll and a little tattered rose, also mixed with collage medium, to her skin, to add a little colour.

I also add extras as I'm putting the design together and here there are extra snippets and some TH film strip, plus a small piece of border coloured green.

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Supplies

Gesso, Clear embossing powder, Vintage Lace, 

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint - Truffle, 

TH Stamps - CMS 266 Newsprint and Type, CMs326 Ornate Trims, CMS189 Merchantile

TH Distress Inks - Ground Espresso, Vintage Photo, Forest Moss, Rusted Wilderness, Tattered Rose

TH Idea-ology - Transparencies Moths, Paper Dolls, Snippets, Film Strip, Small Talk

TH Collage Medium