Hi there,
Thanks for popping in today.
It’s definitely back to business at this end.
What a hive of activity we walked into this morning!
All good though;
the Clarity team is great.
Team work makes the dream work, as they say...
So let’s get art with today’s blog.
Monday’s blog is Flowers and Trees, right?
I procured a Gelli background, which I made before the hols using Smurf Fresco paint,
7" x 7" Gelli Card
crumpled paper and the 6" Gelli Plate
(which is our Product of the Month this June, so a good price!)
In a nutshell, brayer a small amount of the paint
directly onto the Gelli plate,
press crumpled paper onto it, to lift the paint randomly,
place the little card in the centre, then the 7" x 7" Gelli card.
Rub the back of the card to transfer the paint print.
Peel your card off the Gelli Plate. Hey presto.
Result!
Stamp the lovely tall trees stamp into the open centre.
This stamp is also in the
Member’s Half Price Unmounted Sale
this month.
Well worth checking out...
CLICK HERE
I used a Cornflower Blue Archival Ink pad
Stamp the trees onto the centrepiece too.
Let’s attach the card to a piece of our
A6 double-sided adhesive sheet.
Waste not want not! Only use half the sticky sheet...
Cut out the land and trees,
but don’t attach them yet.
Let’s add some colour.
The cool thing about acrylic paint, even chalk acrylic,
is that is behaves like plastic.
So if you wipe dye based ink over it, you can wipe it straight off. The ink will, however, stain the card which is white.
I got out a couple of yellow pads:
Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed.
Stain the cut out trees with a make up sponge.
I used both yellow, for contrast, but one will do.
Now the pieces are done, let’s tackle the frame.
Same idea. Simply rub ink into the frame.
The ink will wipe off the paint and stain the white card.
Add dark blue ink for shade and depth over the top of the yellow in places. It will change to greens as well.
I used Denim Adirondack. Other alternatives:
Faded jeans Distress ink
Chipped Sapphire Distress ink.
See the dark greens too?
Time to attach the parts.
The base, the grassland is easy.
But in order to position all 3 trees perfectly,
I would suggest peeling back the wax paper at the top first,
and then gradually pulling it downwards,
positioning the tree trunks as you go.
like so:
Easy.
Trim the edges,
Add some yellow round the edge with a blending tool on a Blending mat.
I used a make up sponge because I couldn’t find my blending tool!
Mount on white card.
Done.
I like the contrast and the acrylic flecking.
Hope you do too!
So there we are.
Back in the groove.
There’s nothing quite like home though.
We bought this absurdly expensive Tempur mattress before we left, in hopes it might help with my neck problems.
Two nights back in the Tempur sack,
and already it feels better.
If the new mattress stops my head feeling like it’s going to snap off my shoulders, then it was money well spent.
Anyway,
I must crack on.
TV show to prep! Whip to crack!
Wurka and Hollick are definitely back!
much love,