Pink Hair!

My daughter has had quite a month! She had her GCSEs, turned 16, got a part time job and left school (she's returning in September for A Levels so it's only a brief leaving!) and to celebrate she asked for pink hair - how could we refuse! I don't normally share any pages I make with photos but this occasion deserves remembering!
I started by painting a page with pink and white paint. It doesn't need to be an even coverage as this adds interest to the background.

Then I brayered on some blue paint. Then I brayered layers of pink, blue and white paint until I was happy.

Then I added some yellow letters

Then I added some stamped elements and some more stencilled elements (I rubbed a Distress Crayon through a stencil)

Then I stamped out a few elements on card and wrote a journalling card so I could remember this moment.

Thank you, as always, for popping by!

Gabrielle x

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Infusions and a stencil.

Hi Brenda here. I love reverse mono printing with stencils so I thought I would experiment with some of the infusions and a stencil.

I used Daler Rowney mixed media paper and a stencil from Country View Crafts.

Place the stencil on the paper and spritz over it with a water mister.

Take the infusions and sprinkle them over the stencil and spritz again with water. (Next time I might try spritzing with tattered angels sprays).

Remove the stencil and place the wet side down on the paper beside the print you'd already made. 

Rub over the back with dry paper towel and lift to reveal the reverse print.

Take a clean piece of paper, spritz with water and lay the wet side of the stencil down again and rub and you will get another lighter print ......

..... repeat to see if you can get another one.

This is what I got. It may be I can use some of these for card making.

At the end of my experiments I had used several pieces of paper and cut out eight backgrounds to make cards. I inked the edges with shabby shutters, broken china and ground espresso distress inks.

I then took Tim's butterfly duo die and cut butterflies and embossed them. I painted them with water and some diarylide yellow media acrylic and when dry added watery abandoned coral distress ink and dried again then rubbed dried marigold and ground espresso distress ink pads over the top. I stamped the sentiment from Tim's perspective set, inked the edges with shabby shutters, broken china and ground espresso distress inks and coloured the word with a broken china distress marker.

Just before I took the photos I pinned a small key onto the bow with a small yellow pin I had in the drawer. This is one finished, I also have most of the elements to now make up the other seven for my box.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like these artsy background and if you try this technique do let me know, I would love to see what you make.

Have a great weekend.

hugs Brenda xxx

PaperArtsy Infusions - Emerald Isle PaperArtsy Infusions - A Bit Jaded PaperArtsy Infusions - Lemoncello Peacock Mask - That Special Touch Ranger Inkssentials Mister Spray bottle Tim Holtz Distress ink pad - Shabby shutters Broken China Distress Ink Tim Holtz distress ink pad - Ground Espresso Tim Holtz Stamps - Perspective Sizzix Bigz Die w/Texture Fades - Butterfly Duo by Tim Holtz

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Splotching!

Hello! and thank your joining me today for my first post this month where I am sharing some messy backgrounds which I used to make some handy notecards.

I started with some ATC sized pieces of glossy card and literally splotched my Distress Stains here there and everywhere! The colours were: Abandoned Coral, Wild Honey and Blueprint Sketch. It wasn't quite the effect I was hoping to achieve but I thought I would keep going with it!

I felt the circles needed highlighting so used Picket Fence Distress Paint and the lid of a spray bottle. The paint took a little while to dry on the glossy card but it was worth waiting!

I added some text with Black Archival Ink. I didn't put my stamp on a block but just rolled it here and there to get a random look. (My apologies for the photograph - glossy cardstock is not easy to photograph!)

I didn't want to hide the background so added a little tissue tape and a quote before glueing the ATC to the front of a 3.5 x 5 inch white card base.

A handy little set of notecards which would also make a nice present.

Thank you for joining me today and I hope you have a go at this technique! It was great fun.

Jennie x

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Tim Holtz Distress stain - Wild honey	Distress Stain Blueprint Sketch	Distress Stain Abandoned Coral	Tim Holtz Distress paint - Picket fence
Tim Holtz stamps - Curiosities	Ranger Archival ink pad - Jet black	Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Tissue Tape Laboratorie	Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Big chat sticker book

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