Sunday, 26 March 2023

Dont Cry .... for Bee Arty

Good morning how are you? I am here today with my latest creation, this time based on this months challenge, and I have to say this was one of those ones which there was no plan and a one point I wasnt sure it would evolve into anything else.

Have you ever started a layout like that?

Enjoy and don't forget to upload your entries here:
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To kick things off I need to make my paint colours, this time I want something shimmery, sparkly and to do that you need Colour Mica powder and Gum Arabic....

It doesnt matter if its is the powdered or liquid Gum Arabic but you do need it, its a binding agent for your mica, you will find if you do it with just water once dry it the micas will rub off, the Gum Arabic is like a glue keeping things in place.

All shimmer based mists have this ingredient in them, to make sure your amazing colour just doenst rub off.

So the general rule of thumb is equal Gum Arabic to your mica powder and water - warm water works better when mixing your paint.

Now its time to get messy, and this process will take a while as I dont tend to use a heat gum to speed the process up as I find the shimmer from the powder comes up to the surface more and you dont see the under colours.

So I use this time a zen moment and work the paint around the page.

Now if your after more pigment in your mica paints you can add that using the Colour Artist Dye Ink like you can see in the orange section it was a little gold for my liking I wanted more of a orange tone, so I just added a couple of drops in my mica powder mix and it became a richer colour.

Once dry now the messing and arty bit happens, I used a light grey ink for the stamping, you could use black but I am after a ghosting effect rather than something heavy.

I havent mounted the larger Geo Grunge stamp for a reason I allows me when I am stamping to kind of roll it so I get little pockets of details rather than a big crisp image.

Now grab a Stabilo pencil or even a water colour pencil, this is the time to doddle over the top of details in the ghosted stamping.

You can add details in, more circles more crosses, add larger cirlces by tracing around different size circle objects.....

You can wet the pencil work to bleed it out or, just smug it with your finger.

Now you have your background, time to build the layout.....

Rip some vellum into strips and grab the sewing machine, change your stitching up to give a grunge effect.

Splash some Bling Shimmer spray and Black Artist Dye ink to tie your layers together, dont forget to cover your photo.

The rest of the layout is just chipboard, metal charms and art stones, I used Tim Holtz Oxides on the chipboard to make it look like rust and when you splatter with your Artist ink and Shimmer spray your get some amazing water bubble effects.

I hope this has inspired your to have a play and you still have time to enter our challenge....

Till next time have a creative day

Rikki G

Mica Powder - Envy

Mica Powder - Sage

Mica Powder - Polar

Tuesday, 7 September 2021

Stay at Home with Craft on the Run

Good morning how are you? I am here to share my first layout using the A4 style scrapping/ journalling layout for Craft on the Run.

I am starting to fall in love with this scale...

You cant over think it and worry about using everything, and on the plus side if you hate your handwriting when it comes to the journalling, pop on the computer and type way and then print, alternatively like this layout I needed some Covid graphics for my diary....

Whats better than that?

So made a couple of covid graphics then made them into a couple of sizes and printed away....

Now onto the cut file, scaling it to the A4 size, I cut out all the letters that I want to make into shaker boxes with little covids and glitter. And then the outside letters back to the white.

So you will end up with this...

So add transparency to the letters you want as shaker boxes now the next bit takes a little bit of time and can get a fiddly but its worth take the time to do it so glitter wont escape your shaker box, small bits of foam tape around the edges of the transparency.

Now take the backing off the foam mount first then fill your shakers with little covid cut out and some glitter, mini stones, prills. Use a little scoop or spoon to add them into your shaker.

So to help with your placement on the background, put an A4 sheet under your cut file then stick your background over the cut file and stick, spend a little time pressing your foam mount onto your background.

Add a photo with a little paper bag underneath it using some foam tape to help level it out with the cut file.

Add some glass domes from Uniquely Creative scattered around over the top of the covid cut outs, I love how they magnify little details in the print out. Use Xpress it Glue as it drys clear and its super strong.