Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Tim's July Challenge, etc.

So, as my title suggests, this project was an attempt at Tim's Tag of July, 2016:

Image with gratuitous texture!
What a difference lighting makes...
The panel up to the addition of Frayed Burlap DI
Extreme close-up showing my imperfect sealing...
This just looked so pretty with the sunlight on it... had to take a pic...
Ewwww... unforgiving lighting!  Sloppy sealing!

Here are his graphics of the July remix:



Well, so I took a couple roads less traveled, but tried to get the overall "feel" of what Tim had done.

Supplies and notes:

The watercolor resist technique:
  • Started with a panel of watercolor paper and inked an Invoke Arts stamp with Archival
  • Painted the Invoke image with various DIs on the craft sheet, including Aged Mahogany, Pine Needles, Forest Moss, Tea Dye... I also added splashes of Tarnished Brass and Antique Bronze Distress Stains for the crowns
  • In order to seal, I used Distress Collage Medium in Matte... totally imperfect...
  • Heat-dried and then sprayed with Distress Stain in Pumice Stone.  Oh man: it totally bled under my sealed image and I was worried... but then I hit it with the heat tool and it settled down... thankfully...
  • Next, I went around the edges of the panel with Frayed Burlap DI and sprinkled a little water for some visual interest
  • Also added some speckles per Tim's suggestion with an old metallic marker.  Very subtle, but I like it.
The layered text technique... well, actually kind of... not reallly... I have one word die, and it's "joy"... didn't fit the project:
  • Sooo... for the background "word layer" I used Tim's Mixed Media thinlit that I thought would fit the best.  I cut into some centurian music paper and folded it around the watercolor panel, then affixed it on the backside with 7 Gypsies masking tape.
  • Because I liked the look of Tim's technique, I kind of did my own thing to achieve it by writing "love" with a Pebeo Relief Outliner
Additional notes:
  • The knocked out pieces of the lattice die became butterflies, adhered with Glossy Accents
  • Stickles in Black Diamond are the butterfly bodies and a casually-drawn border
  • The hanging apparatus is True Hemp metallic twine
  • I also added some Pebeo Relief Outliner in clear glitter to the mermaid wings
I'd also like to share this at Simon Says Stamp on Wednesday: Things With Wings.  The mermaids have wings, and so do the butterflies.  At one point the entire tag had wings but I didn't like them... I think I might make wings I like for it in the future... for now, the card itself does not fly!

3 comments:

  1. I think you've got plenty done on a small space and there's lots of interesting details and a beautiful piece! Got to start playing with a few library cards today, hope to get the projects finished during the week...

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  2. Gorgeous tags. Love the beautiful images on the first tag. Thanks for playing along Simon Says Stamp Things with Wings Challenge. Gayatri xx

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  3. Pretty tag! The vibe of the image really works well with the die-cut, subtle embellishments and coloring. You are very clever to use your own hand to write the word love in dimensional paint!

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