Antique enamelled bottle and media tile

Framed media tile.
Hold on tight to your dreams.

Process steps

Take a greyboard die-cut bottle and paint a coat of raw umber over the whole surface and dry.

Next paint it with tinting base but leave the edges almost dry brushed so that the brown paint underneath shows through in some places. Dry.

Poke two small holes through which you can thread the wire to tie the test tube to it.

Press the whole bottle into an embossing ink pad and cover with clear embossing powder, heat and leave to cool then give it a second coat. Sand the edges and rub brown distress ik round them.

Take the test tube apply some clear crackle glaze and leave to dry.

Paint a coat of tinting base over the media board tile and when it's dry using a palette knife used horizontal to the surface, scrape a very light coat of gesso over to create some random texture.

Alter the wildflowers and stems with some paint and archival inks. I tend to rub some paint light over the surface and when dry dip them in more watery paints and finish by rubbing archival inks around the flower parts.

Mix watery wash of pink, spread a little over your craft mat and dip the tile base  in and dry. Repeat several times mixing different shades of the pink. (I used pyrrole red, titan buff and titanium white). Splatter a little burnt umber.

Sand the edges and rub some brown distress ink and seal with a coat of soft touch varnish 

The test tube should now be ready for a couple of coats of both raw umber and white antiquing creams rubbing them with a dry cloth between each layer. Then secure it to the die-cut bottle with some rusty wire.

Assemble the parts and add to a frame.

DecoArt Products

Media Fluid Acrylics - Raw Umber, Pyrrole Red, Titan Buff and Titanium White

Mediums - Tinting Base, Clear Crackle Glaze, White Gesso, Soft Touch Varnish

A new take on my antique enamelled number plates using my DecoArt paints. This is an update to my original post which can be found here from the 19th September 2015. It inspired the layers for the die-cut bottle.

The Gold that Glittered - Media Tile

Inspired by Sid Dickens
Another media tile framed.

Process Steps

1. Seal the board with tinting base.

2. With a small brayer very lightly roll on burnt umber and white mixed together,; repeat with medium grey,

3. Stamp text.

4. Take white modeling paste and a drop of burnt umber mix a little together scrape through a small area of a stencil, repeat by mixing quin gold with the modeling paste and repeat by getting different shades each time you scrape through. If necessary dry the surface of the modeling paste before repeating in a different area of the tile.

5. Sand and distress the edges blending in brown distress inks.

6. Take the mould and seal it with gesso/tinting base or chalk paint. Drip some burnt umber and quinacridone gold mixed together into the channels.

7. Finger rub some quin gold over the raised areas.

8. Give wishes of paynes grey and quin gold.

9. With a small piece of sponge dab carbon black around the edges.

10. When dry finger rub some metal leaf size over the raised surfaces and leave to get tacky for at least 15 minutes before adding the gold foil.

11. Add the mould and some words and frame it.

Supplies from DecoArt

White Tinting Base

Media Fluid Acrylics - Burnt Umber, Medium Grey, Quinacridone Gold, Titanium White, Raw Umber, Paynes Grey, Carbon Black

Observations Gather Moments - Media Tile

Inspired by Sid Dickens

Another media tile.

Process Steps.

1. Seal the board with tinting bse.

2. Use the black side of some blending foam and add some gesso to a texture stamp, press it hard onto the surface of the tile.

3. Paint some washes of paynes grey, medium grey, transparent red iron oxide (TRIO) and white.

4. Brayer a thin coating of raw umber over the surface until happy with it.

5. Brayer raw umber and TRIO, using only the edge of the brayer, around the edges.

6. Sand the edges and dip in watery raw umber before finger rubbing neat quin gold or TRIO and paynes grey around to match the colours on the front.

7. Use paper covered wire (from floristry departments) and finger paint above colours over it.

8. Take metal word band and alter with paynes grey, TRIO and titan buff.

9. Find a metal insect and also alter like the word band.

10 Assemble adding some transfer/rubon words.

11. Frame it.

xxx

Supplies from DecoArt

White Tinting Base

Media Fluid Acrylics - Paynes Grey, Medium Grey, Transparent Red Iron oxide, Titanium White, Raw Umber, Titan Buff.

Be open to whatever comes next - media tile

Another media tile but sorry no steps as this is going to be part of a workshop once we know we can all get back to normal life again.

No process steps at the moment as they are being used for a workshop but another media tile in a series where the original ones were inspired by Sid Dickens.

Take care in these scary times.

xxx

DecoArt Supplies

Media Fluid Acrylics - Dioxazine Purple, Phthalo Turquoise, Medium Grey v6, Titanium White, Metallic Silver

Mediums - Tinting Base, White Modeling Paste, Soft Touch Varnish

Take strength from the stars - Media Tile

Inspired by Sid Dickens

Process steps

1. Seal with tinting base.

2. Scrape random layer of white gesso with a flat palette knife.

3. Adhere tissue wrap in a couple of places.

4. Add some texture stamping.

5. Add some transfers/rub-ons.

6. Sand the edges and rub in brown distress ink.

7. Die cut the star from black card, paint the panels assemble and adhere to the tile.

8. Add big chat words.

Supplies from DecoArt

Media White Tinting Base

Media White Gesso

Media Fluid Acrylics - Medium Grey, Titanium White, Carbon Black