This is another one of my lovely 8 x 8 canvas boards. OMG, do they take paint nicely! OMG, are they happy with heat guns! I have now got some in 12 x 12 size waiting in the stash, so I have a feeling papers for scrapbook pages will soon be a thing of the past!
Anyway, having bought some IndigoBlu paint yesterday, I wanted to give it a trial. This is REALLY pigment rich. I mixed it with white gesso, and then a bit more, and then a bit more. I suspect I may have wasted more than I used. Note to self...less is more!! I am amazed at how yellow my base coat became, considering the colours I used.
I dabbed some distress embossing ink through a stencil, and heat embossed in gold. I stencilled (very faintly) two of the Andy Skinner faces in Vintage Photo, as there is no point being remarkable unless people notice!!
I love Art Parts! Such a cool idea, die-cut chipboard and a matching stamp! Stamped and embossed the bee with gold embossing powder, and then dabbed her wings with a glue pen, which when the glue went tacky, I covered with holographic tape, to make her wings really shimmery.
Then I went and watched the last set of the Men's final!! I snivvled a bit (I always do at other people's efforts!), then pulled myself together and came back and glued it all together.
Hope you like (and I hope my chum likes too!)
Resources
Substrate
Q Art Canvas board 8 x 8
Sizzix Time Holtz Alterations BigzXL die: Wordplay 657837
Ink and Paint
IndigoBlu Acrylic Paint: Burning Bonfire, Hot Cocoa
Distress Ink: Vintage Photo, Black Soot, Embossing ink
Dylusions: Marble Black, Pure Sunshine
Pebeo Gesso
Stamps and Stencils
Studio490: Art For You LCS093, Just Word Art SCS033
Studio490 Art Parts: Bugs and Butterflies
Studio490: Dots and Stripes borders
Andy Skinner: Baroque
Artist Cellar: Boy Genius
Bling and Glitz
Ranger Queen's Gold embossing powder
Cosmic Shimmer Dark Bronze lustre embossing powder
Dreamweaver embossing paste: Translucent
Cosmic Shimmer mists: Tarnished Gold, Bronze blush
Holographic tape
Fun foam from stash
Inka Gold: Lava Grun, Gold
Love it! A day well spent!
ReplyDeleteThe letters are so gorgeous... great idea to use the foam that way!
ReplyDeleteVery cool poece. Never thought of using foam for letters and then painting. Great idea! They came out great.
ReplyDeletewhat a fabby idea!
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful!!!
ReplyDeleteStunning, I thought it was a wooden plaque....the background is fantastic. Your friend is very lucky...x
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