Friends share coffee

Here is the third of my mixed media background cards, if you haven't see the others they can be seen here and here.

This background started as a bister mop up over which I applied crackle paint through a stencil and let it dry.

The colours weren't vibrant enough for what I wanted to I took a couple of dylusions misters and gave a couple of fairly quick sprays.

Still not happy with it I then brayered over a little white gesso lightly so that it mostly caught the raised areas, but you can see it picked up some of the coloured inks and created an effect I really quite liked. I gave it a coat of matte medium to seal it.

To finish off I made up one of Tim's take away coffee cups, added some collage bits and die-cut the friends celebrate words.

 

All I had to do then was put it all together.

Again I know just the person for this card.

Have a great week.

hugs Brenda xxx

Take Flight Notebook

Remember the grungy notebook I shared a couple of days ago? Well this was a follow up one to show how using the same steps and techniques a completely different look can be achieved. 

Boards for covers - Create mega crackle layers by checking out Andy Skinner's mega crackle video you'll be able to create your own boards with whatever colours you like. I finished the edges with potting soil and black archival inks.

My embellishments ...............

Butterflies - the large one, left over from workshop trial,  had some distress embossing powder on, the smaller one didn't. They were covered in dark grey v.3 and dried then dipped in watery cerulean blue and dried. Repeated with a dip in prussian blue, phthalo green-yellow, green gold and finally a mix of titanium white/quinacridone gold/paynes grey. They were sanded, inked, flicked with water and sanded again. I love the way the distress embossing is revealed with the last sand on the larger one.

The small frame and arrow were given the burnt umber, paynes grey and quinacridone gold treatment until I was happy with the rusty effects. The backing piece is a sizzix die-cut and embossing folder combo painted with prussian blue mixed with tinting base and rubbed over with brown distress ink. The central piece is a left over scrap with remnant rubs used to create the saying.

The globe was dipped, dabbed and dried using sap green, quinacridone gold and titan buff with some Prussian blue and cerulean blue dabbed on some of the gridded pieces. The circular edge was sanded and blended with ground espresso DI.

Here you can see the front and back covers together with the spine in-between.

I am loving these covers and will have another one for you soon.

Have a great week.

hugs Brenda xxx

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Grungy Notebook Covers

These grungy notebook covers have been made Andy Skinner style using his mega crackle technique. I made them for a workshop I taught recently.

Front and back covers are cut from greyboard and the spine was made of dry wall tape ....

... the layered rusty greyboard and card cogs were given both textured and flat rusting techniques ....

... as was the on the edge die ....

 I was able to attend Andy's Mixology retreat last November where he made something similar and I wanted to recreate it with supplies of my own but still using the decoart media paints that are such a staple part of my creative diet.

Here are two of the books finished by workshop attendees-

Joan and ....

Jane of Jane's Journal.

I hope you have a good week.

hugs Brenda xxx

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