Well here we are again…PaperArtsy 3UP challenge…Oooo
exciting!
This one’s all about techniques, we were asked to be
creative with our favourite technique. Now I love to try all sorts of
techniques and can be a little fickle and just tag along with the current
trend…but I do love to create backgrounds, to the point that I think it’s a
shame to cover them with a focal point LOL.
I had planned to do something Christmassy with a mosaic theme and use colours
that you wouldn’t normally associate with Christmas BUT then I saw this fat
quart bundle which really caught my eye and it was half price to boot and
everything was turned on its head!!
But what was I going to do with it, it took me a while and
time was creeping ever closer to the deadline, so I just sat there for a while
then thought…stencils. A sort through of
my PA stencils found PS001 PS002 & PS005, and then off to my stash of
Fresco Finish paints, I wanted something that would complement the grey/blue of
the fabric but also something that would jump out and shout too and used
Marlin, Nougat and Blood Orange.
Firstly I created a shaded effect with the Marlin &
Nougat using the leaf stencil from PS005; I was really pleased how this turned
out as I wasn’t sure I would be able to create the shade on the fabric. Then
came the Blood Orange with the wispy leaf from PS002, now I really liked this
and as it’s transparent you could just see the fabric pattern. As it had already
worked I created shading again using all 3 colours using the gorgeous flower
head and just had a play, finally I filled the gaps with the PS001 and a honey
combe stencil mixing Marlin & Nougat.
Now I know it’s not the British way…but I really like how
this turned out and although it is simple I really didn’t want to cover it up
and thought what to do next as a finished product, so I scanned it, as you do!
I scanned it producing a PDF and JPEG version and printed
the PDF onto normal card but I wasn’t happy with the colours so tried the JPEG
on matte photo paper and that was much better, I think it might be worth
putting a piece of white paper on top before scanning to get a more ‘true’
colour but I’ll try that later.
Luckily it’s my brother and sister in-laws wedding
anniversary in a couple of weeks so I thought I’d make a quick card. I used a
section of the scanned fabric as the background (you can always add more stamping etc... here if you like it a bit busier!) and stamped the hearts from
Darcy’s EDY01 with the Blood Orange onto an off-cut then mounted them on some
rich velvet paper and adhered them to the card in a cluster hanging from some
ribbon and sponged the edges with more Blood Orange.
So what to do with the fabric? I took some of the other
fabric from the bundle and applied a thin layer of Satin Glaze to make it a
little stiffer and easier to die cut, using a selection of PA Grunge Flowerdies #1, #2 & #3 I die cut various flowers and created a 3D flower to
attach to the fabric which will be stitched onto a canvas bag. As you can see I haven't decided on the position of the flower yet!!
Anyway I’ve waffled on enough, hope you like the project and
Merry Christmas everyone.
Happy Craftin
Rebecca
