My Creative Monday for Magenta - Embossed transparent sheet

 An easy but nice technique from me today.

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HOW to: 
Emboss a piece of transparent sheet. 
Color it with different colors of alcohol ink. 
While still wet, rub over the ink with a piece of paper to take color off certain areas. 
Stamp a script to a piece of cardstock. 
Adhere the colored transparent sheet onto the cardstock with script on it. 

I hope you will give this technique a try! 

Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

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A mini frame, with a dragonfly..

 I first went through my basket with some leftover pieces of colored cardstock for the background. I found two pieces, but they were both too small. 

No problem, just tear one part, and stamp a script on the bottom part. 

The dragonfly has been stamped on watercolor paper and on some acetate from packaging. I cut them out, and colored the first with distress paint and heated the second one with the heat tool, so the wings would be lifted, to get a 3D effect. 

The mini frame is really mini, only 8 x 8 centimeters. It was really ugly to start with, and ready to be thrown away, after years of getting yellowish in the sun, as some wood tend to do.  I painted it with white acrylic paint after a few layers of gesso. I painted a thick layer of quick crackle and let it dry overnight. I painted it with another layer white acrylic paint, and watched it crack. After it dried, I added some color with distress ink tea dye, and some Pan Pastel, and misted it with water to let the color run over the crackled background. I stamped the same script as mentioned in an earlier step onto the crackled frame.  

 Hope you like it!

I am entering this in the challenge on
1. craft-roomchallenge - recycle (the frame and the acetate has been recycled)
2. our creative corner - leftovers
3. The artistic stamper - in the garden

STAMPS USED: 

(click on picture)

A day in the life of me...

.... is the theme at Journal52 in week 12. 

Yes, I am a bit behind. 

Hope to catch up in a few days' time! 

 A day is always like a puzzle, all pieces fit together to make a day... I guess the missing pieces are when you just take a brake, or sleep, or whatever, just enjoy.. relaxing in nature, being on the phone, cleaning the house... 

I's a pity a day has only 24 hours, and we need such a lot of sleep.. hehe 

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STAMPS USED:

Flower ( top) - Hampton Art

Clock plus spoon - Prima Marketing

Music - Art Journey

Girl praying - Art Journey

Mosaïc - Stampers Anonymus

Flower (bottom) - Magenta

Silhouette in background - Unity Stamps

Art journal page week 5 - Journal 52

Abstract painting is the theme this week !

Although this is a real challenge for me, I did enjoy doing this! 

Messing around with color and shapes. 

If I had to do it agian, I would approach it differently, I think.. 

I started off on a monoprint that was not to my liking; that's the red in the background. 

Tim's 12 tags of christmas - number 5

This one took me a lot of time to make, but I learned a lot,!!

I'm just not too happy about it, but I decided not to make a new one, this should be FUN, not STRESS!

Difficult to capture the white on the acetate, but believe me, it's 

white...

 

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