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

DecoArt White Crackle Paint DecoArt Media Enhancer - Ultra Matte Varnish DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic paints Potting Soil Archival Ink Ranger Archival ink pad - Jet black Sissix Bigz Die Texture Fade - Layered Butterfly Sizzix Bigz Die w/Texture Fades - Butterfly Duo by Tim Holtz Tim Holtz Bigz die - Artful Arrows Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers XL die -Tag and Bookplates Sizzix Thinlits Die - Globe by Tim Holtz Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Botanical remnant rubs DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Quinacridone Gold DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Sap Green DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Titan Buff DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Cerulean Blue DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Prussian Blue Hue DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Burnt Umber DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic - Paynes Grey DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Green Gold DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Titanium White - See more at: http://www.countryviewcrafts.c DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic - Phthalo Green-Blue DecoArt Media Enhancer - White Tinting Base Tim Holtz distress ink pad - Ground Espresso

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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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Another shabby canvas board birthday card

Hi, it's my turn to post a project over at the Country View Crafts project blog and I am sharing another birthday card canvas board in a shabby timeworn design. I made this one especially for my sis who had her birthday recently.

Do you remember me making these antique enamelled number plates last year - please find the post and tutorial here if you missed it, but I found one in a box and knew I could create a design around it.

If you'd like to find out more then please pop over to the Country View Project Blog to see more details.

For now enjoy your creative time and listen to your heART.

hugs Brenda xxx




Update - copied over from CVC

Hi it's Brenda here and I am sharing a birthday canvas board card with you today. Making these for special birthdays this year has become a bit of a passion at the moment and I think this is my fourth or fifth one. Anyway it went to someone very special I can tell you that.

I started with a 5 x 7 canvas board and decoart primary magenta mister, water spritzer and titan buff media acrylic. Having spritzed and dripped, dabbed with kitchen roll and dried the first layer of the background was very soft and pastel in tone.

I then stamped and clear heat embossed to create a resist effect before the next layers of colour were laid down.

Then I used one of the new Tim Holtz mini stencils and applied decoart modelling paste to create more texture.

I left this to dry (while I had lunch!) and came back to add the next layers. I sprayed tiny amounts of the primary magenta mister with the white shimmer mister and added a little titan buff into the mix, spritzed it all with water and let the combination of colours blend and drip and to create a more mottle effect I dabbed lots off with a piece of kitchen roll.This was left to dry again whilst I got the embellishments together. A chipboard frame had been covered with gesso and also painted with white crackle paint; I found one of my antique enamelled number plates I had made for a CVC challenge last year which you can find here with a tutorial if you missed it and I die-cut a couple of the 'wildflowers' from one of the new Tim Holtz sets of thinlits using a piece of left over rusted card. A black shabby bow, an artful arrow and some natural foliage more or less finished it off.

I used bought flowers and just added some touches of gesso to the pink ones but 'rusted' what were lilac ones by also adding the gesso and then I made a spray of burnt umber media acrylic and when dry added some touches of quinacridone gold.

Now back to the background and taking scattered straw distress ink I rubbed some over with the blending tool. To take the ink away from the embossed surfaces I used a piece of kitchen roll but oh no - help - the modelling paste was rubbing off and looking horrendous. The only thing I could do was keep rubbing to see what happened. Well -  happy accident? I think so as it all rubbed of to reveal the stencilled design underneath. Not wishing to push my luck I left it it as it was.

Here you can see the embossed resist of the stamped flowers that look beautifully subtle in the background and also the much more prominent resist area of the stencilled design.

 The enamelled number was mounted over some chipboard and nestled beautifully into the frame ....

.... and the rusty wildflowers peaked their heads above the more natural foliage and became a fabulous aged and worn addition to the unison of timeworn and contemporary elements.

The addition of the Tim Holtz easel die-cut enables this to stand on display on it's own or with a collection of birthday cards.

So there we have a pretty shabby vintage design for you. I hope you have enjoyed scrolling through ....

.... thank you for stopping by.