- Autumn Poppy Field

 Alison Bomber stamps - Poppy and Grasses Editions

Welcome Fall CVC #2 September 

1. Start working on the bottom half of the card first.

2. Make watery puddles of antique linen and vintage photo, dip card and dry several times.

3. Using iced spruce and hickory smoke repeat the same process as above on the top half of the card.

4. In the background dip in a little bundle sage and dry.

5. Dab vintage photo, aged mahogany and gathered twigs closely together on a craft mat and spritz with water. Tap stamp into the colours and stamp onto the card and dry. Repeat to create a collection of poppy seed heads.

6. Use masking paper and stamp the poppy heads enough times to cover all the stamped images. When they are covered stamp grasses using different brown and green oxide inks. Dry.

7. Remove masks and use black and white drawing pens to emphasize shapes, outlines and details of the poppies.

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Materials

Distress Oxides Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Iced Spruce, Hickory Smoke, Aged Mahogany, Gathered Twigs, Peeled Paint,

Stamps - PaperArtsy - Alison Bomber EAB37 Poppy Edition, EAB40 Grasses Edition.

Permanent Black pen White Posca Pen, masking paper.

Winter scene 1 for Country View Crafts - Tim Holtz die-cuts

 A Wintry Scene for Country View Crafts

Rachel has chosen Wintry Scenes for the January Challenge at Country View Crafts Challenges on FaceBook. I had great fun with two of the Tim Holtz dies to create the picture and with the distress watercolor pencils and some distress inks and spritz to get the depth and perspective.

Die cut 2 tree lines and glue them onto card stock overlapping a second part beneath the first layer.

Take the paints, using a brush with plenty of clean water, use the paints like watercolours to create a sky. With a small piece of sponge dab the colours over the trees to fill in any gaps on the overlap and to make it look like a cold, misty morning. Dry that and splatter white to create snowfall.

Using white card cut a slope of snow, using a paint brush apply texture paste lightly over it to make it look like snow laying on the ground. Splatter with chipped sapphire DI and adhere to the bottom of the card. 

Cut the birch trees from white card and give them a coat of white paint. 

Play with the DIs, DOs and watercolor pencils to make the birch trees more realistic and cut into them to create 3 individual ones.

Add some watery brown DI to some gaps between the trees, paint some spritz over the tops of the trees too and add more sponged white paint to keep the look of snow. Dry.

 ..... and then glue the birch trees on the panel.

Finish by using a stick to paint in some dried grasses.

One wintry scene complete.

Ink the edges, add a sentiment and make it into a card.

Supplies

Tim Holtz - Sizzix - Tree Line, Branched Birch

Tim Holtz - Ranger - DOs Lost Shadow, Vintage Photo, DIs Walnut Stain, Chipped Sapphire

Tim Holtz - Ranger - Distress Watercolor Pencils - Black Soot, Gathered Twigs, Scorched Timber, Chipped Sapphire, Lost Shadow

Tim Holtz - Ranger - Distress Spritz - Uncharted Mariner

Tim Holtz - Ranger - Distress Texture Paste

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paints - Midnight, Snowflake, Beach Hut, Elephant

Rust inspired D'Oxides

 I love playing with inks and colours to produce different layers of for distressed backgrounds. As it's Halloween month I thought I would try out rust effects with distress oxides to see what happened. I love the result.

On A4 card. Used scorched timber, walnut stain, vintage photo, hickory smoke D'oxides, splattered and dipped into walnut stain Spritz then mixed left over spritz to vintage photo DO and water and dipped into it. Did another puddle of vintage photo and water and dipped into it some more. Finally spritzed water droplets and dried.

Cut card into 3 pieces.....

.... and got a gorgeous layered dipped, drippy, distressed effect.

I make very few projects for Halloween usually and I've already got my Country View Challenge ones made and scheduled so I think I'll chop these three pieces in half again and aim to create 6 small 10.4 x 9.7 cm panels.

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