Experimenting tag

Hello!

Today I will show you a very easy tag, my small experiment. This time I wanted to try some products on my tag, especially white pens and Derwent pencils. I wanted to see how they cover a brown tag and what differences are between them.

As a background I used Ranger Tags - Kraft. I glued a piece of Glitz Design paper using it for a hill. I draw houses ( I will tell you about this in a moment ) and for roofs I used Bazzill Basics Paper – Antique Newsprint.

The left house I draw using Montana Acrylic Marker. As you can see white is bright and you can see it very clearly. For the right house I used a Posca Pen. The tag is absorbing the colour from a pen. I drew lines twice to achieved this effect. If you use dots to draw the line the effect will be better. For the fence between houses I used Sakura white pen.

First time I used Derwent Graphitint and I love it! It's a great pencil. I drew clouds using White (24) Derwent Graphitint and trees using Storm (18) Derwent Graphitint. For drawing leaves I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze. This Glimmer is turquoise (All That Jazz) but the background is brown, so the colour of medium has changed.

For the windows and other blue details I used Light Blue Posca Paint Pen. It's really great, very bright colour.

I love all these products!

Magda x

to you

Hello everyone!

Sometimes I lock in myself studio to make some projects but I can't find any inspiration. Usually I put some products on my table and start to making something not thinking about what I'm doing. Today I would like to show you one of these projects!

I used a small chipboard sheet as a background. I glued some pieces of Bazzill Paper – Antique Newsprint and Glitz Design Yours Truly paper. I used some Dylusions Ink Sprays and a lot of glue and white paint to add some texture to my picture. I wanted a lot of different textures that's why I added some microbeads and Ranger Liquid Pearls. I stamped some Stampotique stamps using Archival Ink Jet Black. For some dots I used white Acrylic Montana marker and orange Dr.Ph.Martin's Bombay India Ink. I also used a black gesso from Claudine Hellmuth. The last thing: I glued Prima bulbs – love them!

I don't know what I will do with this piece. It can be a great cover for a mini notebook or for a small art journal. I can add some ribbon or string and hang it or put this picture to a frame. I will see!

Magda x

Brayer with Distress Paint

Paula here again, with a variation on the technique I showed the other day, this time using Tim Holtz Distress Paints.

First of all, shake the paint (I've used Mustard Seed and Rusty Hinge for this card) and place some on to a non stick craft sheet, roll your Brayer in to it and brayer straight on to a card front.

 

The next step was to just dab the paint top down on to the card.....I would recommend not to be too heavy handed when doing it. Finally, I stamped the images and hand drew a quick border around the brayered section.

 

The next set of photo's show that after I did the first card the paints beaded and slightly dried on top of the craft sheet, I took the brayer, quickly rolled it in to the paint and put it straight on to the card front.....I quite liked the effect it made.

 

 

The card above uses a Donna Downey Poppy embellishment, the stamped butterflies are from the Papillon stamp set by Stampers Anon/Tim Holtz and the wording is from the Stuff to Say stamp set by SA/Tim Holtz.

 

 

Finally, the last card shows another simple idea and that's to place some Distress Paint (the colour is Picked Raspberry) on to a non stick craft sheet and then pick it up with a paper towel and dab and rub the paint on to the card front.

 

 

Well, thanks for popping by and see you soon with some more quick and simple idea's.

 

 



Envelope

Hello everyone!

This project was a real challenge for me. I used Tim Holtz Kraft Glassine Envelope for the first time. I wanted to do something different but I'm no sure about effect ;)

It's not much to say about this project because it's very simple. I crumpled the envelope and then sprayed using Dylusions Spray Ink. I glued a few scraps of paper – I used Glitz Design Your Truly paper and cut birds from Graphic45 Bird Song collection paper.

I drew waterfalls using Ranger Liquid pearls and than I added some dots using Montana Acrylic Paint Marker. The last thing, I stamped Stampotique stamps using Ranger Archival Ink and than I embossed it. I hope you like an effect.

Magda x

Stencils love

Hello!

Today I would like to show you my art journal page. I was experimenting with my new stencils and I fell in love. I've started to explore techniques using stencils. It's a great fun!

For a background I used a piece of newspaper. Than I sprayed two colours of Dylusions Spray Ink – turquoise and pink. They mixed together that's why you can see purple on my page. I used Julie Fei-Fan Balzer stencil and Donna Downey stencil I cut circles from Glitz Design Yours Truly paper and glued Prima It In Crystals Rounds. I used white Montana Acrylic Marker and black marker for some doodling. I stamped Stampotique stamps using Archival Black Jet ink. It's a very quick and simple project but I hope you like it.

Magda x