Vintage shabby emboss resist - New Technique

I'm using some of the Andy Skinner new release stamps today - Mandal and Pebble Beach to create this emboss resist background.

I started by scraping some gesso thinly over my card and when it was dry I added some London Brick chalk paint rubbed it around, spritzed it with water and dried it.

I stamped the mandala and pebble beach stamps with embossing ink, covered it with the embossing powder and heat set it . When the card was cool  I squeezed over a little white chalk paint and  again spritzed with water and rubbed it around then took my heat gun and gently wafted it over the surface not getting too close. I let it cool and repeated heating until it was almost dry, then took a wet wipe and gently rubbed over the surface to reveal this gorgeous shabby design

I wouldn't recommend stamping over the surface, it was a nightmare and I had to use both black and white posca pens to touch it up!!! ;o))

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Andy Skinner Creative Expressions - Stamps - Mandala, Pebble Beach,
Andy Skinner Creative Expressions - Matt Chalk Paint - London Brick
Miscellaneous - White Gesso, White Chalk Paint

Revisiting old Techniques - Emboss Resist

I love this technique and have used it alot in the past but I thought I would update it to create a vintage shabby timeworn look.

Process Steps

1. Paint a coat of acrylic paint over the surface and dry - I used rust.

2. Stamp with embossing ink, cover with clear embossing powder and heat.

3. When cool paint over the entire surface with another colour, this time I chose ocean breeze.

4. Leave it to dry until it's just tacky to the touch then wipe over with a damp cloth to remove the paint from the embossed image. The harder you wipe the more you will reveal. If like me you are using something like greyboard that rubbed back to the original surface take the underneath color and with your finger fill in the rubbed out area and distress by dabbing it gently.

5. Give it a timeworn look by adding a couple of watery washes of rust and quinacridone gold and leave to dry naturally.

6, Sand the edges and rub around with brown or rust coloured permanent inks - I used coffee archival.

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Supplies

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions - Artist Pigment Paint - Rust

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions - Matt Chalk Paint - Ocean Breeze

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions - Stamps - Old Seals, Create, Gypsie Queen,
Tando Creative - Media Board

Miscellaneous - Embossing ink, embossing powder

Andy Skinner new release - Shabby Timeworn Panel

A very timeworn shabby project I've made for Andy Skinner and his new releases today.

Process Steps

1. Take a piece of greyboard and score 3 lines vertically to start it looking like old floorboards. 

      Give it a coat of chestnut to seal it. Dry. Repeat the painting on two panels cut from thinner greyboard to fit horizontally across the main board.

2. Take Lava Paste and a brayer and lightly roll across the panels and heat dry. Then randomly rub a candle over the surface.

3. Paint a coat of ocean breeze, Gently heat and wipe with a dry paper towel to remove a some of the paint.

4. Repeat the process of rubbing the candle wax and paint - this time use a white chalk paint, and rubbing it back as you've dried it. Give a coat of super matt varnish. Leave to dry. This seals the wax coat so you can ad more paint layers.

5. Cut another piece of grey board for your centre piece. Give it two coats of white chalk paint and using rust paint stamp stone wash stamp and dry before giving it a watery wash of ocean breeze.

6. Take the centre piece again sand the edges and dabble quinacridone gold over it, dry and rub  coffee a archival ink pad round the edges.

7. Back to the larger board and panels, bend along the score lines to open them up again, drag a pointy tool down them and repeat the sanding and distressing as in step 6. Also run the archival ink pad over the top of the lava paste texture to highlight it and make this look more like wood panels

Now assemble the project and add some distressed embellishments like Andy's rusty cogs, transfers and adhere a rice paper image to the centre piece.

Products available from Country View Crafts.

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Supplies

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions Artist Pigment Paint - Rust, Quinacridone Gold

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions Matt Chalk Paint - Chestnut, Ocean Breeze

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions Rice Paper - Vintage

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions Stamp - Stone Wash

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions - Super Matt Varnish

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions - Transfers

Miscellaneous - White Chalk Paint, candle, Coffee Archival Ink

A shorter Skype session with friends - mixed media board

Last Saturday my great skyping buddies Nikki (Addicted to Art) and Alison (Words and Pictures) and I met together for a short, just for fun 'do what you want', session to keep our hand in with creating and making and at the same time had a lovely catch-up.

I decided to use four words to work with that come from the first four days of the Creative Expressions FaceBook Mixed Media Mayhem challenges for May. Bright, Crackled, Stencilled and Distressed.

I created a background of brayered layers of Andy's chalk paints and white gesso adding in some stamping (that more or less got covered up :o) ).

The CREATE was stencilled using white texture paste and when perfectly dry I replaced the stencil and dabbed some of the chalk paints over it to help it blend with the background and outlined it with white posca pen. 

I painted the industrial wing with the  mustard and ocean breeze paints, let it dry then scraped some clear crackle glaze in random places. When that was dry I painted on white antiquing cream, left it to dry and rubbed away to reveal the cracks. Next I stamped with the grey haze.

A small round circular piece of Tando greyboard was painted with grey haze and titanium white paint mixed and Andy's eye transfer rubbed on.

The flaming heart was painted with grey haze, wash od the haze and white dabbled on, stamped with white tinting base and then splattered with ocean breeze and haze mixed.

I just used my fingers to add layers of the paints to the ring and splattered with grey haze.

      

Once put together =

It would be great if you popped over to see the other two projects - we had no theme this time - just to do what we liked, so these are very different. Here are their sneak peeks.

Nikki

Alison

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Products used

Andy Skinner Chalk Paints by Creative Expressions - Ocean Breeze, London Brick, Grey Haze, Mustard Seed.

Andy Skinner embellishments by Tando Creative - Industrial Wings, Flaming Heart

Andy Skinner stencil (Inspire) and stamp (Create)

Andy Skinner Transfers - Poe Diversity

DecoArt - Clear Crackle glaze, White Gesso, Tinting base, White Antiquing Cream, Titanium White Media acrylic paint

Rust Technique - Andy Skinner paints

Been playing with just a few of Andy's paint range to create this rust effect.

1. With a palette knife drag some thin areas of white gesso still leaving some of the greyboard exposed.

2. Stencil using Andy's structure paste. Dry.

3. Rub over grey using dry kitchen roll. Dry.

4. Dabble and spritz with rust, let wash move around on the board. Dry.

5. Repeat #4 with mustard seed and also splatter a little. Dry.

6. Repeat #5 with grey.

7. Paint over a layer of quin gold. Dry

8. Repeat #4 with quin gold and rust mixed.

9. Repeat #4 with rust.

10. Repeat #4 with magenta and mustard seed mixed.

11. Repeat #7.

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Andy Skinner products

Artist Pigment Paints - Grey, Rust, Quinacridone Gold, Primary Magenta

Matt Chalk Paint - Mustard Seed

Structure Paste

Out of limitations comes creativity - Skype session

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

 Please pop over and leave some love.

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