Wednesday 11 February 2015

Paint time

I decided to play along with the current PaperArtsy challenge, originally as a nudge to use some new stamps although that went out of the window and I ended up reaching for some older ones!

Leandra's starting post for the current theme of "paint" mentioned stencil bumping. I was intrigued and found she has a good video tutorial demonstrating the technique here. I went for a tag as it was nice to experiment on something rather than aiming for a piece to use on a card or other project.

I really liked the effect Leandra got by using the translucent paints over the opaque ones so my colour choices for the base were dictated by what I had in my stash (I've had a transparent blue in my paint collection forever and a day and I had PaperArtsy's Hey Pesto translucent as well as Tinned Peas so blue/green it was!).

I followed Leandra's guide for the base layers and the stencilled circles and then did an extra layer by adding the stars, overlapping the circles in places. My "stencil" was created with a couple of circle punches and a Crop-a-Dile as all my existing stencils are really a bit too fine-patterned (certainly for a learner!).

Using both Mermaid and Snowflake when sponging in the top shapes gives a nice subtle variation of colour, I think and the sanding step really helps with overall coherence.

When I overstamped the painty base, I wanted the word "time" to stand out more so I went over it with a black marker and then clear Wink of Stella. I hadn't planned to stamp on the circles but that swirl was just the perfect size on the larger circle that I couldn't resist the temptation.

There's a second painty thing on the wee hanging tag - the chipboard piece with the year (just metal punches bashed into the chippie with a hammer) was given a base coat of very dark blue and then dry brushed with a couple of lighter paints. I think it gives a nice patina-ish look.

I thought I might use this as a bookmark so steered clear of adding any embellishments on the body of the tag.

Stamps: Clocks Plate 6 by PaperArtsy

Ink:
Brilliance Graphite Black
Hero Arts Charcoal

Other:
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish acrylic paint (Mermaid, Snowflake, Tinned Peas, Hey Pesto)
Midnight Blue and Turquoise acrylic paint by DecoArt
Random transparent blue acrylic paint from stas
Sizzix Thinlits Tag Collection dies
Small tag cut from waste mountboard with Tim Holtz Apothecary Bottles die
Number punches and leather pattern punch
Jump rings
Wink of Stella clear pen
Circle and star punches by Fiskars

Thanks for stopping by!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fabulous Joanne, and love the colours x

jill said...

A fab tag . The colours work so well together Joanne. I like using paper artsy acrylic paints because they cover just about anything so well .

Julie Lee said...

This is a lovely colour combo. So glad you enjoyed working with opaque and translucent Frescos like this. xx

Lisa Silver said...

Absolutely lovely!

Jean Franks Beck said...

What a great take on that technique, Joanne. I actually thought your dots were dimensional chipboard or popped up until I watched the video. I like the stars over the top of the dots too. Great tag!

SCarol said...

Beautiful and I can't wait to try stencil bumping myself!

Trish said...

Beautiful - I love stencil bumping, it has such a great effect

Lucy Edmondson said...

This is lovely!

Lucy x

PaperArtsy said...

Wow Joanne, it looks fab! Glad you enjoyed the stencil bump, So glad Lynne Perrella shared the idea with us! One of those things that you wonder why you didn't think of it yourself!

Love the tag, and great that stamp fit on the spots too!!

Kezzy said...

Wow super colours and so loving the small tag, stunning and awesome tag. Happy Art :-) Kezzy xxx

Karen Dunbrook said...

this is awesome Jo...going to watch the videos..
hugs,
K