Stack Art Mania

Have you seen peeks of the newest rage to hit Mixed Media?  Stampendous' Stack Art is here!  The system has 3 different components and various kits for each component.  Then you can mix and match to your hearts' content!  There are chipboard kits:

Elements kits:

And Stamp kits:

These kits all mix and match for endless possibilities!  I have a Stack Art creation for you today that uses Stack Art kraftboard Regal Bird kit, Stack Art Rubber Stamps Regal Bird kit, and Stack Art Elements Sumptuous kit.

I've painted some of my Kraftboard with Silks acrylic glazes, then for other pieces I used the enclosed pre-cut adhesive on the Kraftboard and then added glitter from the Elements kit.  These kits are so much fun to create with, you should check out more info on them at Stampendous Impressions and while you're there get links for other projects the team has made!

Stampendous and Maya Road Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stampendous and Maya Road Blog Hop!  I hope you've had fun this week checking out all the cool projects from both teams :)

Today I have a Mixed Media layout to share with you:

1. Spray Radiant Rain over Mod Spirals stencil onto a 12x12 sheet of watercolor paper.

2. Heat set.

                                                     

3. Paint Hand and Hearts chipboard shapes and Costers from Large Square Coaster Book with Silks acrylic glazes.  Heat set.  

4. Stamp Dream Text onto coasters, hearts, hands in Archival black ink.

5. Edge pieces in black with pad or marker.

6. Spray a scrap of watercolor paper with Radiant Rain.  Heat set.  Stamp just sayin' from Smashing Notes set in archival ink.  Punch out.

7. Adhere coasters to page with Fabri-tac adhesive and dimensional tape.  Adhere other chipboard shapes with fabri-tac.  Add tab with glue stick.

8. Stamp journaling using Tiny alphabet.

Supplies:

Dream Text (Stampendous)

Smashing Notes (Stampendous)

Tiny Alphabet (Stampendous)

Large Square Coaster book (Maya Road)

Hand and Hearts chipboard (Maya Road)

Mod Spirals stencil (The Crafter's Workshop)

Watermelon Mist, Teal Zircon, Carmen silks (Splash of Color)

Ginger Flower, Spanish Moss, Teal Zircon Radiant Rain (SOC)

Archival Black pad (Ranger)

Faber-Castell Brush marker

Fabri-tac adhesive (Beacon)

Glue stick (Ranger)

Dimensional tape (3L)

Watercolor paper (Strathmore)

And, of course, there are PRIZES!! Maya Road will have one grand prize you can win by commenting on their blog, liking them on Facebook, and commenting on their Facebook page. We’ll have three prizes for the week comprised of a Maya Road alterable book (I have two chipboard and one canvas), Some MR chipboard or other embellies, and Stampendous EJK08 White Encrusted Jewel Kit – perfect for covering chipboard with blingy goodness and Stampendous CRW092 Cling Artist Elements and SSC1122 Elegant Borders Perfectly Clear Stamp™ Set. Readers will have until Sunday night September 15th to comment on as many of our team blog posts as they can. Monday we’ll choose three bloggers at random from the week and each blogger will choose one winner from her comments. Winners must have a United States mailing address. Let’s get HOPPIN’

Asia King

Cyndi Bundy

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

Jennifer Dove

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Stephanie Lee

Suzanne Czosek

Tenia Nelson

Tobi Crawford

The Maya Road Design Team Blog

Stampendous meets Maya Road

Are you ready for  week of fun with Stampendous and Maya Road? I am super excited to be able to combine all my Stampendous goodies with some fun embellishments from Maya Road! 

Today I created a fun Mixed Media fall tag for you.  My focal image is one of the leaves from the new Jumbo Leaves set.  It was embossed with Aged Bronze Embossing Enamel and then colored with Twinkling H2Os.  On top of the leaf I added some small Vintage Paper Posies from Maya Road that I painted with my Twinks.  This was tied together with some May Arts ribbon and then I added a couple of Vintage Pale Pink Pearl Ball pins that I painted with Silks.

The background tag was sprayed with Dylusions and then stamped in Distress Ink with the Leaf Background.

Heres a shot of the painted pins:

I also added a few flourishes from the Decorative Scrolls chipboard set painted in Silk and then partially embossed with Aged Spice and Aged Wine enamels.

Supplies:

Jumbo Leaves (Stampendous)

Leaf Background (Stampendous)

Aged Wine, Aged Spice, Aged Bronze enamels (Stampendous)

Decorative Scrolls Chipboard (Maya Road)

Vintage Ball pins (Maya Road)

Vintage Paper Posies (Maya Road)

Carmen, Boysenberry, Nutmeg Silks (Splash of Color)

Spiced Pumpkin, Wine & Roses, Yellow Roses Twinkling H2Os (SOC)

Pure Sunshine, Crushed Grapes, Squeezed Orange, Cherry Pie Dylusions (Ranger)

Gathered Twigs Distress ink (Ranger)

Versamark pad (Tsukineko)

Fabri-Tac adhesive (Beacon)

May Arts ribbon

Please hop around to see what my Stampendous teamies and the Maya Roadies  have created for you today!  Be sure to leave comments for everyone for more chances to win!

Asia King

Cyndi Bundy

Jamie Martin

Tenia Nelson

Tobi Crawford

The Maya Road Design Team Blog

 

Mixed Media Layouts

 Good morning! Hope you all have had a fabulous weekend!  Mine so far has been full of rain and thus a migraine, sigh.  Feeling much better today though and I'm off to work soon.

Betty and I have been franticly prepping for the Stamp Scrap Art Tour in W-S next weekend.  We'll have tons of mixed media products available including the newest stencils from The Crafter's Workshop, new stamps from Dyan Reaveley and more!  I hope to see some of my local friends there Saturday :)

So in preparation for the show I've been creating like crazy for Betty.  The Silks acrylic glazes from Splash of Color have been really hot for us so I created a few layouts using them with stencils from TCW.

For this layout  used the 12x12 Fragmented Flower Stencil with a mixture of Apricot Nectar, Fuzzy Peach, and Watermelon Mist silks sponged through onto 12x12 watercolor paper.

I also painted the silks onto some Prima flowers and a heart cut out of chipboard with a Tim Holtz die.  Final touches include journaling and outlining the stenciled area, plus a tad of washi tape.

My next layout is done on a piece of pattern paper to add to the depth of the texture on the page. 

 I then stenciled some flowers from a Dyan Reaveley stencil in the same Silks colors around the edge and some dots in the center of the page randomly.

Again I used some cardboard die cut and painted that in Black Ice Silks this time, plus some more flowers.  My tag was also painted in silks.

More to follow on another day!  Shoot me a comment  or email if I'll see you at the show!

Playing with {Prima} Paper Dolls

Happy Monday!  I had a fun weekend of classes at Donna Downey's studio and I'll share pics from those later this week.  But in the meantime I wanted to share with you some tags that I created for Betty's store using the Prima Doll stamps and Splash of Color mediums.

For the first one I colored her dress in with Silks acrylic glazes from Splash of Color.  My tag was first colored with Silks and then I stenciled more silks through a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop and also stenciled Graphite Ferro through a different TCW stencil.

I added a cutout from one of the new ATC Collage Sheets from Splash of Color.  My flowers are from Petaloo colored with Silks and lace trim is by Prima.

For the second tag I again used Silks for the background and the stenciling.  Her dress was paper-pieced with LYB Poppy.

Her crown and the words came from one of the Collage Sheets from SOC.

And her skin was shaded with Gelatos from Faber Castell.

These little gals are so fun to piece and color! I can't wait to play with more of the new ones :)

Scrappy Sunday with stencils

 Happy Sunday!  I am up today for this week's Scrappy Sunday Challenge at Paper Craft Planet!  Today I am challenging you to use stencils on your layouts!  Here's my page for today:

I used the 12x12 Microbial stencil from The Crafters Workshop along with Silks acrylic glazes from Splash of Color in Bolivian Blue, Teal Zircon, Carmen, and Spiced Pumpkin.

I also pulled out some fun chipboard from Technique Tuesday thats been sitting in my stash forever and painted these with the same colors of Silks.

Be sure to head over and join our challenge this week and give us a link to your creation so we can see what you've been up to!

Stenciling on Canvas with Silks and Primary elements Tutorial

Good morning peeps! Today I am sharing a little canvas with you that started as a "mop up" and then it kept calling me to finish it!
                      

 

I began with a small 6x8 canvas which I prepped with Matte Gel medium, Tim Holtz tissue paper, and then more medium.  The background is a color wash of Silks acrylic glazes in African Jade, Moonbeams, and Stargazer) from Splash of Color.  The silks are a luscious semi-transparent shimmery paint that dries almost immediately. 

    

 Next I prepped two piles of Champagne Modeling Creme by adding Primary Elements pigment powders to each (one with Teal Zircon, the other with Ocean Waves).

 

I masked the words off of the top of my Urban Landscape stencil from TCW with painter's tape and then spread the creme mixture through the skyline.

 

This is what it looked like at this point: 

 

  I used the other color of embossing creme that I created to stencil the Subway stencil onto the background.  I heated both parts for a few seconds with my heat gun since I'm so impatient.

    

 On a scrap of pattern paper I stenciled one of the cameras from the Picture Perfect stencil with a black Pearl pen from Viva.  I made a small puddle on my craft mat and then laid it over the stencil with a makeup sponge.   

 

My skyline looked a bit lost so I traced the edges with a black pen.

 

OK. so this adorable little "Today" diecut?  I know I cut it at a workshop with Jaime but I can't find it on the TCW website so maybe I'm sneaking you a peek of something top secret!  (The watercolor paper was sprayed with Radiant Rain before being die cut)

 

Finally I added a few words to my canvas.  I unmasked the words from Urban Landscape and stenciled them with the same black Pearl Pen then cut them apart and glued them on.

 

I used the cute little Prima doll stamp by Julie Nutting for my focal image.  She was stamped once on text paper and then again on a sheet of Art Journal pp from Prima.  The dress and headband were cut out and then I ran a thin layer of Moonbeams silks over both of these pieces to add a touch of shimmer.

I placed her on a partial #10 tag from Ranger...this was first painted with Twinkling H2Os in Lucky Apple and Sea Spray and then I stamped the globe from Tim Holtz's Travel Blueprints stamp set in archival black ink.

 Hope you enjoyed my little adventure! My local girls are already asking when this will be a class, so I will whip up a few more similar samples and schedule that soon!

Twinkling H2Os meet Silks

Good morning!  I am up today with the Monday tutorial on Paper Craft Planet.  Today I wanted  to share some fun techniques with Twinkling H2Os and Silks from Splash of Color!  Twinkling H2Os have been around forever and we all used to watercolor with these gorgeous shimmery paints.  But there has recently been a new resurgence of love for this product since Splash of Color (formerly Creative Imaginations) took over the product line from Luminarte.  Now its all about the possibilites of using these babies in Mixed Media!

Please head HERE to see the tutorial on how I created this background in my Art Journal.

I left this background as a base in my Art Journal and I will add to it later.  When Art Journaling sometimes I just love to create backgrounds, sometimes I am experimenting with new products or techniques, other times I add some doodling or journaling when I find a fabulous quote.  My journal is always an ongoing project!

Products Used:

Key Lime & Raspberry Wine Silks (Splash of Color)Think Pink & Summer Fun Twinkling H2Os kits (Splash of Color)

Vines & Honeycomb stencils (The Crafter's Workshop)

Dylusions Art Journal (Ranger)Claudine Helmuth paint brush (Ranger)

Scrapbooking on the Wall with The Crafters Workshop

When I attended the Trade Show in Boston recently I was lucky enough to take a class from Jaime Echt, owner of The Crafters Workshop.  We had fun playing with lots of stencils and their new dies but  I didn't finish my project there because I was unhappy with the color choices the lady at my table made for us.  Soooo, I took my display board home along with some pre-sprayed pieces from Jaime and played more with my collection of TCW stencils until I came up with this final piece inspired by the class.

Jaime had pre-sprayed some mixed media paper with various colors of Radiant Rain and assorted TCW stencils.  I cut a few of these pieces with the new dies.

The first panel has the "happy" die cut from Vertical Happy Bunting and the background I sprayed Ginger Flower Radiant Rain through the  Circle Regiment stencil.  I also added some Viva Bronze Modeling Creme by Splash of Colour through the Aztec stencil directly onto the photo.

This panel has a background sprayed through the Aztec stencil and then in the bottom I stenciled part of Lifes Months with Graphite Ferro Special Effects Paste onto a sprayed panel.

This panel was die cut using Vertical Happy Bunting and then cut apart.  The bunting I glued to the top of the display panel.  (I used Zip Dry from Beacon for the whole project)

One of the other panels uses the frame from the Horizontal Chevron die, and then I used the negative pieces to decorate the inside of this panel.

Products used:

Tiny Circles 6x6 stencil (TCW)

Aztec 6x6 stencil (TCW)

Life Months 6x6 stencil (TCW)

Circle Regiment 6x6 stencil (TCW)

Mixed Up Alpha 6x6 stencil (TCW)
Horizontal Chevron die (TCW)

Vertical Happy Bunting (TCW)

Seven Gypsies Display tray

Luminarte Radiant Rain sprays (Splash of Colour)

Ferro Special Effects Paste Graphite (Splash of Colour)

Bronze Modeling Creme (Splash of Colour)

May Arts Ribbon

Art Journaling Class

A couple of weekends ago I did an Art Journaling class at Betty's Stamping and Scrapbooking Room called "Taking your Art Journaling to the Next Layer".  I promised the girls at the store as well as Jamie from The Crafter's Workshop that I would post pictures and I have finally gotten around to it!  Sorry it took me so long!

We played in our Art Journals with lots of stencils from TCW and a huge variety of mediums:

Ink Sprays, Gesso, Gel Medium, Modeling Paste, Gelatos (Faber-Castell), Acrylic Paints, Distress Paints (Tim Holtz), Modeling Creme & Glitter Paste (Splash of Color).  

First up are a couple of pages that I worked on during class as demos.   This one started as Dylusions Ink Sprays...

then I stenciled Glitter Paste over the CityScape stencil from TCW.

I added some more stenciling with Perfect Pearls sprays and Celtic Circle...and finished with some doodling.

The next page I had started by doing my background with Penny Black bg stamps and Stampers Big Brush pens (Faber-Castell).  I **think** I added gel medium, acrylic paint, and gelatos during class as my background layers.  

I added the Vine stencil with spray...

I stenciled the Birds in paint then added gelatos and doodling around the bird and branches.

And the Solace stencil with teal Modeling Creme really made the page pop...

I finished it by stamping Life is Art from Stampendous...

We played with a variety of styles on our pages including tips I picked up from CHA from Dina Wakely, Ronda Polazzari, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, and Nathalie Kalbach while at TCW booth.

Here's some of the pages from my students...

(Deidre)

                                     

(Betty)

(Gail)

(Betty)

(Kathy)

(Caroline)

(Kathy)

Overall, I think everyone had a blast!  We'll do it again soon!