10/31/2015

Celebrate with Us & Creative Guest Louise

This month we have one of my (Marie) personal favourite crafters all time as our Creative Guest - Welcome Louise Nelson!



Hello Hello

First I would like to say a huge thank you to Marie and the Words & Paintery team for inviting me to participate in the anniversary of this fabulous challenge blog. Because this is a special event I wanted to help celebrate by sharing with you, a new to me, way of using texture paste and mica powder to create an interesting and dimensional layout background. I do hope you like it.





  Step-By-Step

I started with a 1.8mm chipboard background that had been spray painted with spray gesso, I then adhered a resin frame [also spray painted with spray gesso] to the background.



Using a palette knife apply a layer of black sand texture paste about 2 inches wide all around the resin frame. 


Then at the edges of the sand texture paste apply another layer of texture crackle paste.


Coat the entire layout with a coat of spray gesso.


When background is dry apply 3-4 sprays of dark mist [vintage coal] and then apply some misted water to make the mist spread out as pictured above.


Then mop up the mist/water using wet ones. Allow the mist to remain in the depressions created in the sand texture paste, Dry with heat tool.


This is what it should look like after moping up excess mist and water. The aim of having these darker areas is to help create visual depth with darker and lighter shades areas of pink when applying the mica powder in next step.




Apply Mica powder liberally using a soft bristle paint brush. Apply to the resin frame, and textured areas created by the sand and crackle texture paste
  

Shake and brush off excess mica powder. Then using a baby wipe brush back [polish] the mica powder until it remains only in the cracks and depressions of the sand texture.
This is what it will look like after above stage. Allow to dry.


Apply a liberal spray of orange mist to the centre and over the resin frame.


Add extra splats of orange mist around the resin frame. Dry off with a heat tool.


Form a large set of wire loops [wire thread] in varying sizes. To colour these put some mist on a craft mat and smooch the wire loops around in the mist until the wire loops are completely colored. Dry off with a heat tool. Arrange the wire loops to suit design of layout. Adhere to the layout background using strong clear drying glue.


Adhere embellishments [wire flowers painted with gesso] using strong glue. Adhere gems to centres of metal flowers.


Colour the metal flowers to coordinate with layout background using orange mist.


To adhere the gold micro beads I use a mix of glossy accents and water to the consistency of runny honey. I then splat this on and around the embellishments. 


Sprinkle on the gold micro beads and shake off excess.


Add touches of pink mist to the metal flower petal tips using a paint brush. Dry off with heat tool.



Crop the photo to fit in the inside of the resin frame. Adhere inside the resin frame using double sided adhesive foam dots.



To soften the edges of the photo and coordinate it with the background I apply small daubs of glossy accent on the photo around the edges of the resin frame, then apply some of the left over gold micro beads.


The final touch is to apply a darker pink mist to the wire thread and flower gems to add visual interest and depth.

Thank you Louise for taking us trough your creative process! Please come back the day after tomorrow for another tutorial!

10/29/2015

Celebrate With Us & Anna Ekman

Anna has been a part of this team from the very beginning and today she bring you one of her sparkly, colorful layouts. Please enjoy the video tutorial in the bottom of the post as well. And Thank you Anna for taking part of this adventure! ♥ Marie







Thank you Anna for this funky project! Please step by on October 31 when we will reveal our Creative Guest for this Anniversary!

10/27/2015

Celebrate with Us & Denisa Gryczova

Today you´re going to wittness the pure madness and chaos. This is what it looks like in my head and on my working table when doing an art journaling. This time I ruined just my t shirt. No time for being carefull about my clothes. Never mind. It wasn´t my fave. 

I love to use real vintage images. Making up stories for the people captured on the photo is the essential part of the process. This time I went for a pic of five young ladies. Not the kind of perfect, slim and beautiful ones but normal pretty girls as we all are. This was the starting point. 

Then I had to use the given colour scheme by Words and Paintery October Challenge. Gold, orange and pink. Not the one I feel comfortable at but it worked for me well. I might it use more often. 




So, let´s get started. I painted my aj pages with white gesso and dried it with a heat gun. I sticked some of my stickers (not the one I´m into) on the page and covered it once again with a thin layer of white gesso. After it had dried I applied a thick uneven layer of white gesso and dried it very closely to the paper with my heat gun again. This step creates super bubbled background. 




I decided to add more texture by applying an embossing paste over my fave stencil. I dried it. Now I started adding colours. Just having fun not being systematic. I did some random stamping with archival inks. 



 My intention was to create anything but a romantic feel. This is why I chose some old clock parts, tea bags, buttons, a wire, a piece of torn cloth, metal trinkets and a washi tape as embellies. I started to build the cluster. You can see it in the photos. Nothing complicated. 




As a final touch I coloured the ladies´ cheeks light orange, painted the photo edges gold and added the quote saying: They were made of sarcasm, wine and everything fine. And it´s done! 



Happy creating my friends! 

Denisa

10/25/2015

Celebrate with Us & Lena Holmström

Today Lena brings us a really, really funky project!

Process video:

Thank you for the inspiration Lena. Don´t forget to visit us the day after tomorrow for another great tutorial.

10/24/2015

Top Picks & Winner September

It´s time to share the top 4 picks and winner for September! We had many, many gorgeous entries this month and as usual the choice was hard! And you haven´t missed out that we have a special month with a lot of tutorials as it is our 1 year anniversary right?

Top Picks







And the winner of the pize pack from  


is Suzz who actually had several stunning entries this month!


Please send your contact details to wordspaintery@gmail.com so we can send out your prize!