Leftovers from 2020 Topic 21 Fresco Finish Fun with TS (by Ellie Knol)

I've made some cards from leftovers of a post I did a while ago;  masterboard fun with Tracy Scott stamps and stencils for Paper Artsy. 

I promised myself to use up what is lying around half-finished. 

I added some more color to the backgrounds to make the white of the stenciled area pop more.

I hope you got inspired to dig out some leftovers that deserve to be finished into finished art. 

I gave these cards (among others) away as a thank you to somebody for hosting a coffee-drink evening after holy communion on Sunday. 

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

2020 Topic 21 Fresco Finish Fun with TS (by Ellie Knol)

 The theme for Paper Artsy : 2020 Topic 21: Masterboards

Rubber Dance inspiration - a step-by-step

I have a post on the Rubber Dance blog today  

a sneek peak of 2 cards... 

Masterboard for Rubber Dance..

I am on the Rubber Dance blog today,

a step-by-step of creating a masterboard with stamping, stencilling, fingerpainting, coloring, doodling, making marks, fussycutting...

..in short... playing with product!

One of the steps...
stencilling in white (and light yellow)...


Have a good weekend ... 

Watercolor fun with Mixed Media Marks

I am sharing fun watercolor backgrounds with you today as I shared 2 weeks back on the Rubber Dance blog!

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This is where it all started.. watercolor play and trying to loosen up, on a big sheet of watercolor;  in the meantime getting the practice of brushstrokes and control of water in the process.

Not that I am new to watercolor, but practice makes perfect, doesn't it?

I did a watercolor workshop on Skillshare from Jo-Marie Barlow to create the backgrounds for the 10x10 cm cards and ATC format cards.

(As for Skillshare: 2 months for free and after that you might want to subscribe!) 

ENJOY. 

 Why not play, and then cut it up?! 

 

 I gave it my own twist ..
... adding Mixed Media Marks... 

... and of course a stamped focal point....
 Grungy Butterflies and
Flowers Gone Wild and Doodle flowers on the ATC's. 

... I made 2 ATC's and 4 cards from the masterboard!!  

See you next time!

I am entering this in the challenge on
1. Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - create you own background

Rubber Dance Stamps: 

The Rubber Dance Webshop

Mixed Media Marks

Doodle flowers

Flowers Gone Wild

 Grungy Butterflies

My Creative Monday for Magenta - Pan Pastel on gelliplate 2

In my previous post on the 6th of April, I showed you the technique of using Pan Pastel on the gelliplate. 

I share a few of the completed cards I made from these backgrounds. 

I LOVED splattering white acrylic all over it.... 

These were some of the backgrounds I printed on the gelliplate with Pan Pastel. 

 

 They're in my stash for future projects.. 

Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

48.021.Q Large Floral background

Ellie Knol designs

 

48.003.N
Ellie Knol designs

K.0452 Swirl Leaf  

95.250.N

A work of art...  [07.692.L]

Branche de feuille délicate [0705.N]

Colibri 2 [76.005.N]