Just a quick post (can't believe it's been so so long since I posted anything!) today.
Tim Holtz's Creative Chemistry 101 is up & running again this month (& 102 in July, then NEW! 103 in August) (why don't you join here at onlinecardclasses.com if you haven't already done so). Same classes for a couple of months, but new forums & galleries, Tim answering new questions & now live chats as well!
So first week is looking at the first couple of lessons, so I've played along. 3 tags using distress inks (all last year's colours - twisted citron, mermaid lagoon, wilted violet, blueprint sketch and edged ground espresso, or hickory smoke). And 3 techniques blended spritz & flick, brushless watercolour & wrinkle-free distress. Butterfly stamps by Tim Holtz (Stampers Anonymous) & quote stamps by Finnabair (Prima).
Loved revisiting these techniques & looking forward very much to a summer of Creative Chemistry!
Back soon
Kay
I first discovered Finnabair & her work a couple of years back, love her work! And now she's just started a new Facebook group - Finnabair & Friends - Open Studio, so many talented crafters out there... just amazed by everyone's stunning offerings! And we now have a challenge, for a background inspired by one of her creative team's examples (on her blog). So I had a play on several tags, & decided in the end to go with my take on Rebecca's textured background,.
Using a 5" x 7" canvas, I added strips of papers, hessian rectangles, lace trim, finishing off with texture paste through 2 different stencils.
Then I covered with a coat of white gesso.
Then for the colour ... What to do? I wanted to get away from my current bright pastel turquoise/teal/green/purple palette, so I decided on a fairly dark & gold 'grungy' theme...
After several false starts... sprays (the red was too red), shimmering mica powders (again too red!), it looked a real mess!
So, I still liked the texture, & it's only a canvas (!), and as I'd decided to go dark, I covered the whole thing with a coat of black gesso ... that was better, & because I'd used the shimmering powders, it ended up looking quite metallic.
Eventually, I used gold paint on the lace and stencil stripes, and most of the small stencil dots & added a coppery paint to the remaining dots. A few days ago, I found some micro beads I'd bought years ago... the black, gold & light brown were just the thing to add a little more colour texture - background done!
After trying out several brass/gold toned embellishments, which weren't quite working, I wondered whether it would work better 'landscape'... yes, everything went together quickly after this, and so I finished my canvas...
I enjoyed this, even despite the many re-colourings!
A couple of detailed photos...
