With 3 things: Jupiler goodness for Paper Artsy

With 3 Things post. 

This feature on the PaperArtsy Blog is where 3 bloggers are sent 3 items in the post. We have no clue what PaperArtsy HQ is going to send us, there might be a slight variation but generally 2 of the 3 things will be identical.

I was happy to find these supplies in the package: Two panels of Grey Board, Alison Bomber stamp set 28 (EAB28) and Infusions Sleight Blue, Violet Storms. 

A recent blog topic was Designer Focus (Alison Bomber) and WHITE, and of course NATURE, and if we can tie that to this 3 things post, then that adds another challenge into this project.

I always like to make swatches of the colorway right away. 

Today I have made these two panels using all of the above product...... let's take a closer look.

I started off with applying a white heavy gesso randomly to the panels with a palet knife, and press with stamps, and a lid into the wet gesso. Leave to dry.

When dry, mist the panel with water, add crystals of the infusions to the top of the panel, mist it with water and let it run down the panel. That's it. 

Believe me, less crystals is more! 

I tried to emphasize the various colors of crystals in each color of Infusions. 

After drying stamp the foliage in black stamping ink, and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. 

Add extra color to make the berries pop. 

White paint splatters and splatters with the infusions were then added. 

... and of course some background stamping. 

So, compare the two, and choose which one you like best.

My favorite is the one with more white surface... 

As you can see: just play.. see what works best, and with Infusions: the outcome is very unique and unpredictable...

Parts of the surface that was not covered with gesso, turned out darker, as is the structure pressed into the wet gesso. I did not touch these circles for instance, apart from adding a white line at the bottom with a white acrylic marker.

Art Journalen / Art Journaling day 7 "Lente Feestje"

  For me art journaling is playing with product without any rules. 

I started in a new journal and hope to fill it with a lot of pleasure, no time limit, no pressure. 
Using up some of my collage fodder in the process is a plus +

It's called "Lente Feestje" dutch for Spring Party.... 

Wings and Tails

 I am entering this in the challenge on the Sirstampalot challenge blog which is "Anything stamped with option Wings and Tails"

The background is a technique where you use colored pieces of paper and cover it partially with white acrylic paint. 
The butterfly was fussycut from a separate piece of paper. 

My Creative Monday for Magenta - Mixed Media Card

I LOVE to make cards from scrap pieces of paper. 
The card I've made is one from pieces of gelatine prints, edges of ledger paper other pieces of leftover backgrounds. 
I scraped a little gesso over the background with a palette knife, and finished it off with stamped script and also white accents and doodles with a white acrylic marker.
That's it, lol.   

Magenta products used:

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Ellie Knol designs

 

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Ellie Knol designs

TM284 Meadow Flowers - Large

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Sketchy Leaves ATC's

Hi there, 
Ellie here with you today sharing a fun technique for a large background (masterboard) to be cut up to make several cards and ATC's. 
I will only share the finished ATC's today. 

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Adhere several smaller torn pieces of colored paper and book paper to a large piece of sturdy paper. Choose the colored paper's colors from a moodboard or other source so they will match the colors you want your background to be when finished.
 Leave to dry.  
Cover the whole surface with watered-down white gesso using a palette knife. Immediately dab gesso away from areas you want to preserve more than other parts with a damp cloth.
Leave to dry.  

Stamp with several background stamps in several colors onto the  background as shown. 
Leave to dry. 
Add extra color (I added light green only) to the background. 

Now cut it up to the size of ATC's and cards. 

For today's post I finished the four ATC's only, I will share the four cards on a later date. 
Enjoy!  

Above the four ATC's I've made adhering fussy cut images and words to it. 

This is such an easy way to create multiple backgrounds in one go.

Hope you like it and got inspired.

Please share in our FB group; there's a chance to win a prize from the shop! 

Rubber Dance Stamps:

The Rubber Dance Art Stamps Shop

Sketchy Leaves

Retro Beach (post card)

Mix A Sentiment 1

Mix a sentiment #2

Mixed Media Marks #1

Mixed Media Marks #3

Mixed Media Background Collage Cards

For today's post I created four Mixed Media Background Collage Cards!
I created a masterboard with collaging different elements to a piece of paper that measured 30 by 30 centimeters approximately.

The HOW TO:
Adhere elements like fussycut stamped images (flowers and leaves), but also book paper and some colored imagery (mostly green leaves).  
Stamp with Mixed Media or flower stamps in the background.

Apply gesso over the elements partially with a palette knife using gesso. 
Spray with green and orange spray inks to merge all the of elements to a cohesive background. 
Tear four pieces from this masterboard to fit the four card bases.  
Adhere fussycut stamped images, stamp postage stamps and fussycut stamped torn pieces of postage tickets to finish each card off

 Rubber Dance Stamps:

The Rubber Dance Webshop

Mixed Media Marks #3

 Grungy Butterflies

Textured Birds

Textured Mushrooms

Flowers Gone Wild

Mix A Sentiment 1