My husband bought a new wallet and it came in this great tin. My daughter and I decided to do a make over on it using stencils and Distress Paint Dabbers. This box will be used to store jewelry.
I got home from work yesterday and there was a package. It was the stencils I had ordered from Green Pepper Press/ Michelle Ward. Of course I could not wait to play so I made this quick tag.
This is the reverse side of the tag.
I picked up a pad of Stone Paper at Walgreens on the weekend. It is a smooth surfaced paper made from stone instead of wood pulp. After outlining the face with a Faber-Castell Pitt pen, I decided to experiment with my Copic markers. They look like watercolor on the stone paper. I was able to use my fingers to manipulate and mix the colors. I mixed a little white acrylic on the face to add highlights. I want to play with the paper a little more before I buy a pad without lines online. They are a lot more expensive than the $3.99 I paid for the lined pad at Walgreens.
Yesterday, I got a box of supplies from Artist Cellar and I could not wait to play. So last night I made these two birthday cards. I used stencils by Chris Cozen from the Artist Cellar Playful Pods Series to create the patterns. The acrylic glaze paints are Silks.
The lighter /darker brown on the card below was done but sponging Distress Ink through the stencil.
I outlined the stencils using a Pigma Micron 01.
My daughter and I made this 9 drawer jewelry box this weekend. She had dozens of earrings she needed to organize. This is a kit by Kaiser Craft. The paper is by Teresa Collins. The buttons are antique. We used a Tim Holtz Paint Dabber to paint the edges.
I am just crazy about stencils lately. The pages below are in a journal I made by hand. The paper is extra heavy weight watercolor paper. I randomly painted it first with Tim Holtz and Adirondack Paint Dabbers. Then I took some Golden's Molding Paste and a stencil by Heidi Swapp and created the 3D circle design. After it dried I applied more paint lightly to the surface to color the dots. I dripped Liquitex acrylic inks from the top of the page to create the drips. On the third page panel I used a paint dabber on a stencil by Artist Cellar to create the flower look. The flap in the center of the page is a tag looped between two pages. The flowers are made from stenciled coffee filters which are then ripped and glued to silver foil to create a pattern. I punched out the graduated circles with hand punches from Marvy.
I then painted the stems with a Posca Paint pen and outlined them with a size 2 Sakura Pigma Graphic pen. Unfortunately I am left handed and I smeared some of the outline and lettering. The two butterfly cards (a previous project) are attached to the tag I looped through the pages. The final touches were some Tim Holtz tissue tape stained with Broken China Distress Stain and dabbed with Broken China Distress Paint.
Have you ever gone to a conference or event where they give you this great journal or writing tablet and it has a big logo on it? I am not big on logos so I decided this one needed some sprucing up. For some reason when the exterior of a journal is beautiful I long to open it up and add to it.
I used a generic journal with a logo on it. Then I covered the journal using Studio multi medium matte as glue with Idealogy by Tim Holtz tissue wrap. I dried it with a heat gun. Then I randomly added the paint using Ranger Distress Paint. I let everything dry and then stenciled on top using a stencil by Kite and Versafine ink in Pinecone. As a final coating I added Studio multi medium matte.
On Saturday I spent a few hours playing with my Gelli plate again. I just love the results. I used a variety of acrylic paints from liquitex and turner.
I had the most fun cleaning my stencils off directly into this handmade journal. I also cleaned the brayer off on the pages. Most of the stencils are Crafter's Workshop and Heidi Swapp.
I made this journal page using watercolor crayons, Pitt markers, Tim Holtz stamps and washi tape.
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