Retro

 

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new steampunk wooden canvas as Design Team 

member for 13arts using the amazing Industrial Zone collection.

I prepared the background of my canvas by 

embossing thin metal sheets, painting them with 

Golden Calcite Color Glow with acrylic medium 

and then, once dry, lightly brushed with brown 

vintage paint.

I cut paper from the collection to fit the centre of 

my canvas and gave it a good coating of clear gesso.

I then stenciled onto the paper with the Golden Calcite 

Color Glow mixed with gel medium, dragging the 

product downwards on my paper.

I added the medium along the edges of the paper 

and, while the product was still wet, I lightly added 

Rusty Bronze powder to it, adding the reagent to 

allow the powder to react and turn rusty. 

I painted the chipboard pieces with the brown vintage paint.

Resin embellishments were painted with black gesso, 

then the brown vintage paint and then, while the 

paint was still wet, Rusty Bronze powder was added,

together with the reagent.

I cut many pieces out of the cut-out sheets and 

added these to my canvas together with all of the 

embellishments which I had altered.

I hope that this project inspires you to create your 

own with these amazing papers and products.

Journey

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new mixed media canvas with you all 

today as Design Team member for 2Crafty Chipboard 

featuring some of the steampunk chipboards 

as well as papers and embellishments from 

the 13arts "Victoriana" collection.

I painted the decorative panel with black gesso and then 

dry brushed it with gold paint before backing it with 

patterned paper and adding to my canvas.

My inspiration for this project was the colours 

in my metallic flakes so I painted some 

embellishments with black gesso and then added 

the flakes to them, including my title.

The rest of my chipboard embellishments were painted 

with gold paint and then added to my canvas.

I layered all of my embellishments with flowers and 

cut-outs to give depth to my project.

I hope that this project has inspired you to create one 

of your own with these amazing products.

Beautiful

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new layout as Brand Ambassador 

for Penelope Dee with you all today using the 

beautiful new MEMOIRS collection.

I love the romantic feel of the pink and green florals 

and botanicals in this collection which suited 

my photograph perfectly.

I painted the chipboard embellishments in green 

paint mixed with white gesso to mute the green slightly.

Stenciling was done with Sage Green Distress Oxide 

to give a soft look.

Lots of fussy cutting from the cut-out sheets 

completed my layout.

I hope that his layout inspires you to create

one of your own.

 

Use your wings and fly

 

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new mixed media canvas 

as Design Team member for 13arts using the 

gorgeous, dramatic "Queen of the Night collection.

I prepared my wooden canvas by covering it with paper 

from the collection and then giving it a good coating 

of clear gesso, leaving it to dry completely.

I stamped onto the edges of my canvas and then

added Onyx Color Glow to gel medium, 

stenciling around my canvas and dragging the spatula 

up and down on my canvas until I was 

happy with the result.  

I added Texture Powder to white gesso to 

form a thick paste and then applied the paste along 

the left and right sides of my canvas, leaving the paste 

to dry completely to form the cracks.

I then mixed Garnet and Tiger Eye Color Glow 

together with gel medium, adding additional 

stenciling in some places.

I painted the round resin pieces in black gesso and 

then applied gel medium to them.

I lightly covered the gel medium with 

Rusty Bronze powder, shaking off the excess.

I then applied Reagent to the powder, 

leaving it to react with the powder. Once it was dry, 

I applied more of the Reagent to give the rust effect 

that I wanted.

Once I had added everything to my canvas, 

I added gel medium onto the canvas, below the

rusted elements and used the same process as above, 

allowing the Reagent to run down the canvas 

into the cracks of the paste.

Other pieces on my canvas were painted with 

black gesso and then lightly brushed with white gesso.

Once everything had been added to my canvas,

I lightly brushed florals and other embellishments

with white gesso.

I hope that this project inspires you to create one 

of your own with these beautiful 

13arts papers and products.

Dream

 

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new layout for 2Crafty Chipboard 

using some beautiful chipboards from the collection.

I love nature and the outdoors and wanted to 

create a forest, woodland layout to match my photograph.

I stenciled onto the background of my layout using 

gel medium and 13arts Golden Calcite Color Glow, 

dragging the product with my spatula onto my layout.

Some chipboards were painted with a combination of 

acrylic medium together with the same Color Glow.

The window shutters were painted with black gesso 

and then lightly brushed with green ink.  

I applied the same paint to the edges 

of the fern leaves.

I layered the chipboard and other embellishments 

with flowers to create depth.

Chipboards used on my layout include

I hope that this layout inspires you to create your own 

with these beautiful chipboard pieces.