Workshop Wednesday #1

Afternoon!

As there was no Groovi Tuesday this week, we need a Workshop Wednesday instead, usually it will just be a little peek at a project I've done in a workshop, past or present, but as today is the first one we'll have a step by step...

Grab your Lapwing stamps ready and a piece of Clarity stencil card.

Using Cobalt archival ink, stamp the lapwings in place, take note of where the big fella is at the bottom, cover the birds with masks. Put a border of low tac tape around all four sides and put a moon mask in place.

Prepare your Brayer with Clover adirondack ink

Brayer the sky, then the bottom area too, leave a nice band of white through the middle though.

Using the Tangle stencil and clarity brushes, add a little texture to the bottom area only, just sweep gently in one direction from the bottom of the stencil upwards.

Remove the moon mask and replace with the aperture part instead, gently add a little weathered wood ink along one side of the moon.

Remove all masks and masking tape.

Use a marker or pencil to add shade to the birds, note, I used an alcohol marker even though I stamped with archival, I was very very careful not to touch the stamped line art with the marker or it could make it bleed and ruin my pen.

Terrible shadow on this pic, sorry!

The finished one is a bit better, but I'll never be a photographer.

Hope you like it, the class did once they got over the fear of the Brayer, funnily enough Barbara mentions fear of the Brayer on her blog today, Dave's strategy made me laugh!

Thanks for stopping by, hopefully see you Friday for another piece of bodged artwork from heartbreak corner.

 

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Walk in the park tutorial

Good Morning!

As promised here is the tutorial for one of my Wee Folk cards

You will need

Wee Folk Claritystamp set 1

Floral Figures Claritystamp set

Cherry Blossom Claritystamp

Love and best wishes Claritystamp

Clarity brushes

Gelli plate card

Adirondack dye Inkpads, Lemonade, Terracotta, Juniper.

Archival Inkpads, Black, Sap Green

Waterbrush/paintbrush

Low tack tape

Black micron pen

Post it notes

Heart die cutter

 

Attach low tack tape to a piece of Gelli card to create your frame.

Brush Lemonade ink around the edges of all the windows.

 

 

Using post it notes, isolate the bottom right window.

Stamp the cherry blossom in black archival ink

 

Stamp the children on swings and use a micron pen to fix the swings to the branches.

 

Stamp the grass from the floral figures set using Sap Green archival ink.

 

Sponge a little terracotta ink around the top.

 

Stamp the family into place in the top left window

Add the cherry blossom and the grasses

Now this is where I have a photo missing...add terracotta ink to the top, just like you did with the children on the swings. And add some terracotta around the two remaining windows.

I then die cut a couple of hearts and stamped them with the sphere shape from the floral figures, but I decided two was too much, see below?

 

So I took one away and replaced it the one of my fave sentiment stamps.

Use a paintbrush to colour the blossoms with terracotta ink.

Frame your little windows and a heart with a micron pen.

I coloured my cardstock with the Inkpads id used for a good match, layered up and fixed onto an 8 inch cardblank.

 

Hope you like it!

Thanks for popping in.

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Clock tutorial

Good evening/morning, whichever it is?

I think I've lost about 22 hours somewhere, I've been a bit busy, that's why this is late.

So, the clock then...

 

 

This is where we're headed.

 

Scrape Grunge paste through your stencil onto your canvas/greyboard, leave to dry or gently heat with heat tool.

 

Paint with red acrylic paint, let it dry.

 

 

Paint over the red with black acrylic paint

 

Before black paint dries, dab with a baby wipe to remove lots of the black, let it dry.

 

The next step is to dry brush the piece with gold acrylic paint.

 

For the butterflies and numbers to match, paint a couple of pieces of card red, let it dry.

Drag a little black paint over the red.

Now stamp and cut out your butterflies and numbers, glaze the numbers with clear embossing or glossy accents, whichever you prefer.

 

Hope you like it!

 

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Which one, you choose?

Happy Tuesday to ya!

I said id show you another telly sample today, but I also want to share a step by step project with you, I have 2 step by steps available but can't decide which one first, so you choose.

Leave a comment below letting me know which one you would like first, the clock or the card, and whichever is most popular will be what I blog tomorrow,ok?

Here's the pics to choose from....

Or

Ok Thats it for today, little Jake is at the vet this morning, he's being 'knocked out' so Sean can get a proper look at his cheek teeth, very very important in a bunny because their teeth grow continuous throughout their entire life, I must say I'm uneasy about him having anaesthetic but as he will not allow the tools in his mouth there is no alternative.

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Butterfly Montage boxcard tutorial

Butterfly Montage box card

 

Cut a piece of card 17.5cm x 21cm

Mark at 4cm in from all sides and pencil a line

cut the centre out and save the central piece, you need this too

Brush both pieces with talc/anti static bag

Stamp butterfly montage with Versamark and sprinkle with clear embossing powder

Heat emboss with heat tool

Take the centre panel and brayer some ink over the emboss from opposite corners,buff with a tissue.

Add a small amount of ink to the edges of the embossed frame if desired.

Stamp the lone butterfly onto heat resistant acetate and emboss with clear powder.

Stamp the tag part of the montage onto card, cut out.

Add some ink to the top and bottom of the tag piece and stick the acetate butterfly.

 

cut a piece of card 14.5cm x 18cm

Score at 1cm and 2cm on all four sides

Cut each corner as below

crease score lines as below

Use wet glue to stick tabs

Stick the brayered piece inside the box and add the tag piece

using wet glue stick the frame to the box

add little stamped bunting pieces if desired as I did on telly.

If you would like a reminder of the Purple version please check the Claritystamp challenge blog.

 

 

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Over the edge Die-cutting Tutorial

I was asked about this technique a couple of days ago, so this is for the people who are still unsure how to do it.

Please forgive the rushed colouring job.

 Position your cutting die over your image, framing the area you would like inside the frame.

Draw a fient pencil line around the OUTSIDE edge of the die

(i used dark pen so you can see it in pics)

Cut around the parts that are outside the circle, cut further into the image though-if you follow the lines of the image it wont show up later, for example, I have cut up her arms and both legs, this is so i can slot the die in place easier-you will understand when you do it yourself.

This pic is to show how far I have 'cut into' the image.

Slide the image into the die with the 'over the edge bits' above the cutting ridge. Jiggle your die around to the correct position- I moved mine above my line because i decided it was too far away from the little girls botty. When making your final adjustments for where you want the die to cut remember the cutting ridge is a couple of millimetres in from the edges of the die.

Now trim your excess bits off.

Now I need to turn her into a card or something!

Hope this is helpful.