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Friday, March 11, 2016

The Final Day of the Andy Skinner Blog Hop

Stampendous and Media March 2016 Blog Hop-01

Today is the last day that we play with our friends at DecoArt. Mixed Media Artist and DecoArt International Education Coordinator Andy Skinner has designed some fantastic stamps for Stampendous, and we have shown them off all week long.

Andy joined us with his team of international mixed media artists including Julia Stratford-Wright, Mark Gould, Mel Hookham, and Jools Robertson. There were posts this week on the DecoArt and Stampendous blogs as well.

Prizes

Each comment on a post this week will enter you to win a fabulous prize package! (one comment per post, per person). The contest open to everyone!!
We have three packages and each has a Fluid Media Starter Kit, all three of Andy Skinner’s new Stampendous Stamp sets, and a Jumbo Acrylic Handle. Look at this great prize!

Here is my post for the day:

Materials:

Cling Toxic Rubber Stamp Set
Deco Art Media Fluid Acrylics in Carbon Black, Titanium White, Prussian Blue Hue, Primary Cyan, and Metallic Silver
Deco Art White Modeling Paste
Large Nautilus Stencil DWLM104
Waves Stencil DWLJ838
Dreamweaver Palette Knife
Stencil Brush
Stazon in Midnight Blue
Sizzix Scoreboards XL Dies--Canister
Sizzix Little Sizzles 6 x 13 Mat Board Pack Cream
Removable Tape
Paint Brush
Raffia
Zip Dry
Black Card Stock
Small Gems

Directions:

Cut the mat board with the die to create the canister and assemble.
Paint the canister with the blues, white, and a little black. Let dry.
Use stamps and Stazon ink to create texture in the background.
Use the Waves Stencil, white paint and the stencil brush to create waves in random places around the box.
Tape down the Nautilus Stencil with removable tape. Use the palette knife to spread the Modeling Paste over the stencil. Remove it and let the paste dry. Don't worry about the image being perfect. The imperfect paste makes the project look more interesting and ancient.
Repeat step 4 in various places around the canister.
Paint over the tops of the modeling paste and let dry.

Now that you have seen my post, make a quick comment, and then head over for more inspiration and additional chances to enter prize drawings at the following places:

Thursday, March 10, 2016

An Andy Skinner Blog Hop

This is an exciting week, as the Stampendous Team has been experimenting with DecoArt. Mixed Media Artist and DecoArt International Education Coordinator Andy Skinner has designed some fantastic stamps for Stampendous, and we have been showing them off all week long.

Andy and his team of international mixed media artists including Julia Stratford-Wright, Mark Gould, Mel Hookham, and Jools Robertson has been joining with Stampendous and the DecoArt blog. Of course, there are prizes.....

Prizes

Here is my post for the day:

Materials:

Cling Toxic Rubber Stamp Set
Deco Art Media Fluid Acrylics in Carbon Black, Payne's Gray, Titanium White, Primary Yellow, Primary Cyan, Interference and Metallic Silver
Mixed Media White Paper
Deco Art White Modeling Paste
Deco Art Metallic Lustre Gold Rush
Mosaic Swirls Stencil DWLJ901
Dragonfly Stencil DWLM193
Gears Stencil DWLJ911
Dreamweaver Palette Knife
Stencil Brush
Stazon in Cloudy Sky and Emerald City
Removable Tape
Paint Brush
Raffia
Zip Dry
Black Card Stock
Small Gems

Directions:

Cut the paper to size and paint it, using gray, black and white. Create splotchy parts by loading up the brush with various colors instead of mixing them first. Let dry.
Use stamps and Stazon ink to create texture in the background.
Use the Mosaic Swirls Stencil, white and the stencil brush to create the "aged tile" look in random places around the image.
Tape down the Dragonfly Stencil with removable tape. Use the palette knife to spread the Modeling Paste over the stencil. Remove it and let the paste dry.
Repeat step 4 with the Gears Stencil.
Paint over the tops of the modeling paste and let dry.
Gently rub in Metallic Lustre over the top of the painted modeling paste.
Add the gems and raffia.
Assemble the card.

Actually, I have two. The "twin dragonflies". Really, I couldn't decide which I liked the best.

The differences in this one lie entirely in the color choice of the Metallic Lustre (this time, I used Copper Kettle) and the addition of the green raffia. Other than that, they are the same.

Now that you have seen my post, make a quick comment, and then head over for more inspiration and additional chances to enter prize drawings at the following places:

Thursday, September 24, 2015

De-Stressing with Distressing

This week, the challenge is Distressing. At first, I was thinking, "sure, I can do this, no problem.....Just stamp with the texture stamps and throw a little Distress Ink on a few edges and bam!" Then, the lovely ladies at Stampendous sent me some products that I had never used before and a link to a video (which I have posted further down). I have to admit, the thought of learning a new technique caused me a little stress. I watched the video and gave it a try. It was FAR easier than I thought. I am not sure if I did it exactly like the video, but I loved it. I am hooked. Let me show you what I made.

Both the blue and the distressed orange paper started out as white Mixed Media Paper. I used two variations on the techniques I saw in the video.

Orange Paper

1) Paint the paper with a mix of Quinacridone Gold and Titan Buff DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics. Don't mix the paints, just squeeze them on your palette and use your brush to pick up both colors. They will mix on the paper and create variations of the colors. Let this dry.

2) Paint some Americana Decor Chalky Finish Paint in Everlasting onto your palette or craft sheet and use it as an "ink pad" for your ASCRS03 Industrial stamp. I used the one that looks like peeling paint on this one. Stamp it all over your background. I made sure that the stamp orientation remained vertical, so that the peels look like they are all weathering in the same direction. Let it dry.

3) Lightly brush some Quinacridone Gold over the whole top.

4) Seal with DecoArt Duraclear Matte Varnish.

Blue Paper

1) Using the same technique as the orange (not blending the colors, but picking them all up on your brush), paint the Mixed Media Paper with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics in Prussian Blue Hue, Paynes Grey, and Titan Buff. Let dry.

2) Stamp with ASCRS03 Industrial Stamp Set in StazOn colors Blue Hawaii and Cloudy Sky. I chose the one with the scratchy effect and used the stamp in a different direction with each stamp.

3) Seal with DecoArt Duraclear Matte Varnish.

Stencil

1) Use removable tape all the way around the DWLG754 Large Oak Leaves Stencil on the blue paper. Place the first piece across the full top of the stencil and, when removing, treat this as a hinge to lift your stencil.

2) Use the palette knife to transfer the Black Matte Embossing Paste to the Paste Spreader.

3) Place the paste spreader on the top of the image and pull straight down, treating the spreader like a squeegee and keeping it in contact with the stencil at all times.

4) Remove the tape and let it dry.

Now, this is where everything went sort of wrong for me. I SHOULD have just repeated the above process with the Crackle Embossing Paste and then, when it dried, I would have colored the white surface with inks or alcohol markers. It would have looked like this (which is a preview of next week's card):

However, I found my only container of Crackle Paste to be almost gone and really, really dry. With nothing to lose, I added water and Quinacridone Gold paint to the container and mixed it. In the end, it more resembled small curd cottage cheese than the whipped cream cheese texture that I should have had. I tried it anyway. It took forever to dry. When it was almost done, I turned my Embossing Heat Gun on it, which bubbled the surface even more. It now had both cracks and bubbles. It looked like this:

The original base color on this (because of the addition of that paint) was sort of a light gold orange. I added color with my Stencil Brushes and whatever pigment ink I had around. In this case, I used Vesacolor in Green Tea 161, Split Pea 63, Boysenberry 126, and Orange 13. I also used Versamagic in Eggplant. The combination of the Eggplant and the Green Tea over each other made the brown color on the stems and acorn caps. Finally, just because I had it, I brushed on DecoArt Metallic Lustre in Gold Rush, Iced Espresso and Champagne Ice. You certainly don't need to use all these colors. they were just handy to me.