Tam's back with more drips.....

Hi lovelies

Tam here again to share another drippy creation.....

A drippy girl.....

To create this one I used the following products:

I began by applying white gesso to my page and then sketched a face.

I then used the Prima Bloom Stamps.

I love this stamp set.

Everyone should have this in their collection.....

Firstly I stamped each one onto scrap card and then cut them out.

I use these as masks.

I stamp directly onto the page using archival ink.

NOTE this ink must be waterproof so it doesn't reactivate when liquid is applied.

I then cover that stamped image with it's mask, ensuring it lines up...

I then stamp the next image, overlapping slightly.

See how the mask works?

You are left with layered stamps....

Time to start adding colour....

I used Art by Marlene Watercolours, in both Bold and Bright and Whimsy and Bright.

I layer upon layer the colours until I am happy with the depth and vibrancy.

I aslo sprayed water and allowed the drips to run down the page.

For the face I used Jane Davenport Glitz Sea Watercolours.

They are just a bit softer.

I also added some drips to her eyes.

I then went in with a fine pen to add some details.

I also added some pen work to a few of the flowers, just to add some highlights.

Finally a few flicks of paint!

Love those drippy flowers....

and I love the white space around it.

Helps the colours to pop.

Keep your entries rolling in.

We love to see how you drip, spray and spritz on your creations.

Much love 

Tam

xx

Tam's loving the purple again!

Hi there creatives

 

Tam back again and I'm excited to share a few more purple creations with you all.

Why didn't someone tell me earlier that all I needed to do to find my purple mojo was pair it with teal??

 

I've had such fun playing with these two colours together, in fact, I couldn't stop!

My goal was to create a journal page, but I got a little carried away and ended up with 5!

You see when purple suddenly starts playing nice it's something that you wanna just GO with.

This one was inspired by someone I follow on Instagram - Robin Mead.

Her work is colourful, bright and totally inspires me.

I dug out all my purple and teal paints, and hand painted some trees.

I added some patterns to them by using both hand doodling and stencils.

This stencil by Carabelle had the perfect size shapes to add detail to those trees.

 

I also used another Carabelle Stencil too.

 

 

My second creation is inspired by an amazing artist I follow on Instagram -  Audree Marsolais - again really colourful - her work really speaks to me.

I again used those stencils above and some of these paints....

 

Dina Wakley paint in 'Turquoise' and 'White'.

 

 

 

 

 

Dylusions Paint in 'After Midnight', 'Calypso Teal' and 'Crushed Grape'.

I loved creating the background, then adding in some leaves, and then filling it in with some white paint.

I was so happy with the result I just had to create it in black!

I again used the Carabelle stencils but also added in this one too by TCW.

and the following paint colours:

 

 

 

Dina Wakley Paint - 'Eggplant' , Turquoise', 'Black', 'White' and 'Peacock'.

 

 

 

 

Dylusions Paint in 'After Midnight' and 'Calypso Teal'.

 

 

 

 

I really love the look on the black.

 

For the next creation, I decided to try and go a bit more pastel, rather than bright.

 

 

 

 

I used a Carabelle Stamp and my Prima Watercolours in 'Tropical' for this one.

 



 

 

 After creating these above projects, I then had a special delivery of the NEW Tracy Scott Paper Artsy stamps and stencils I preordered.

 

Well of course I just had to have another play!!

 

 

 

 

I am IN LOVE with those scribbled flowers!!!

 

 

Glorious!!

 

I used Paper Artsy Paints in 'sargasso', 'beach hut', 'lavender' and 'snowflake'.

 

 

 

 

Let's take a look at the stencils and stamps I used:

 

 

 

 

You can find the Tracy goodies HERE.

 

 

 

 

That's it from me today!!

 

I can't wait to see your take on our awesome challenge...

 

 

 

 

Just upload your creation to our Scrap Matrix Shares Page (pop it in the 'Purple and Teal' Album) and let us know in the comments what Scrap Matrix products you used.

 

Yep it's that easy!

You could win a voucher from the store or a guest DT spot!

 

Go and get your purple on!

I highly recommend it.....especially when teamed with teal!

Va va voom!!

 

 

I'd love you to pop over to my blog for more inspiration.

 

Scrap Matrix Products used:

Journal

White Gesso

Dylusions Paint - After Midnight

Dylusions Paint - Calypso Teal

Dylusions Paint - Crushed Grape

Dina Wakley Paint - Eggplant

Dina Wakley Paint - Turquoise

Dina Wakley Paint - Peacock

Dina Wakley Paint - Black

Dina Wakley Paint - White

Prima Watercolours - Tropical

TCW Stencil 6x6 - Deco Leaves

Carabelle Stencil - Lit de Petites

Carabelle Stencil Scalloped Texture

Carabelle Stamp - Life is Pretty Awesome

Paper Artsy Stamp - Tracy Scott ETS124

Scrap Matrix Tracy Scott Stencil PS125

Paper Artsy Paint Sargasso

Paper Artsy Paint Beach Hut

Paper Artsy Paint Snowflake

Paper Artsy Paint lavender

 

 

"Hold dear always" .. with Alz

Morning peeps!

I'm back to share another Tic Tac Toe Monochromatic page with you. This time I went with brown ..

Hold dear always

.. and the vertical strip on the left .. Brads (buttons or flair), Paint and Chippie Shape.    

This layout posed some challenges. First of all, brown. What was I thinking? Lol! Its not that I don't like brown. I mean crikey, I have a brown dog, and brown furniture. In fact my whole house is varying shades of brown now that I think about it. Except for some accent walls. But I digress (oops).

I created my own background on watercolour paper with various inks, stencils, stamps and 'stuff'. First, I used the same technique for sticking down dictionary paper as I used in my last project (see here). Once it was completely dry, I sprayed my page with water and started adding 13Arts Ayeeda Paint Rainbow Colour in Brown. Because I was working on a few pages at the same time, I had the luxury of allowing my page to dry naturally which meant I could allow each layer of the brown ink to dry before repeating the process, ie, spraying my page with water and adding some more of the 13Arts Rainbow Colour. By doing this, I was able to achieve, albeit not a lot, but some, depth of colour in my brown.

Of course I couldn't stop there, so I grabbed my TCW Mums Stencil and Paper Artsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint in Nougat and sponged the paint through the stencil onto my background. Once it was dry I felt it really needed some definition so messily outlined each of my Mums' petals, three times. I did it whilst I was 'watching' TV so it really didn't take that long. Next, I added some black texture paste through another TCW stencil. Finally, as you'll see on my close up photos below, I used various Aall & Create Stamps and a Jet Black Ranger Archival Ink to add that final touch to my background.    

As with my last share I decided against using layers behind my photo. With hindsight, a few weeks after creating my layout, I think maybe some plain white and/or cream layers would have worked well. But at the time, well yeah. Moving on lol! It was time for embellishing, one of my favourite parts of scrapping.

I sprayed various pieces of Chipboard (Circle Words Adore Italic #2 and Doily Border) with 13Arts Ayeeda Chalk Mist in Dark Brown and once dry (which took a while as chipboard is sooooo absorbent), inked the edges lightly with the Jet Black Ranger Archival Ink. Inking the edges gave the chipboard just a bit of definition helping them to stand out from the page.

I removed the 'pearl coloured' centres from some Prima flowers and replaced them with Prima Memory Hardware Glass Pearls in a dark colour. I also painted some Metal Flowers with black paint and then lightly scratched back some of the dried paint to reveal the metal underneath. In my embellishment clusters I also included some of my favourite flowers (Petaloo Botanica Minis) .. they're the perfect size for tucking in here and there, you can do so much with them, including leaving them plain, and a pack seems to last me an awful long time.

Because of the Tic Tac Toe line I had chosen, I had to include a Brad, Button or Flair. I went with an Um Wow Studio Flair. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I love these flairs! They're just that little bit larger than your average flair, and they're just that bit flatter. I love them!!

Some of my stamping was a wee bit messy so to partially cover and distract from the particularly bad spots, I stamped some birds with Aall & Create Stamp Set #6, cut them out, coloured them with a brown pencil from the Prima Watercolour Pencils in Earth Tones, and adhered them to my page with foam tape.    

I also scattered around a few black rhinestones I cut from a strip of Molossi Crystal Lines. If, like me, you love bling, you seriously have to get some of these Molossi Crystal Lines! A packet will last you forever. No joke. Yes, you can use them as a strip, but one packet comes with five strips, and you can cut them up into smaller strips or individually as I generally do. Aaaand at the time I wrote this post, there are eight different colours in stock, including teal and pink and lime green .. sigh!    

Finally, I needed to add a title and some journaling. You'll probably notice I tend not to journal a lot on my pages. I also don't usually add large titles. I like to rely on my product to provide my title and/or journaling. For example, I could have titled this page "Adore" as that's the word being repeated on my chipboard circle. But I have a lot of pages titled "Adore". So I added some of the words from Tim Holtz Idea-ology Chit Chat stickers - Verbiage, and that was that. My second Tic Tac Toe Monochromatic layout was finished. Yay!

Don't forget you have until midnight on the 14th of May to add your entry to the appropriate album on the Scrap Matrix Shares Facebook page. Please also share with us which Scrap Matrix products you've used. Finally, because this is yet another long post, and you might need a reminder, here's the Tic Tac Toe Monochromatic board for you to have another look see at ..

I've really enjoyed the entries loaded so far and look forward to seeing more .. even yours! So get creating and have fun!!!!! Til next time ..

Cheers .. Alz  :)

Scrap Matrix products used ..

13Arts Ayeeda Paint Rainbow Colour - Brown

TCW Stencil - Mums

Paper Artsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint - Nougat

13Arts Ayeeda Chalk Mist - Dark Brown

Prima Watercolour Pencils - Earth Tones

Aall & Create Stamps - #6 and #10

Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black

Chipboard - Circle Words Adore Italic #2 and Doily Border

Prima flowers

Prima Memory Hardware Glass Pearls

So Much Metal - flowers

Petaloo Botanica Minis - white

Um Wow Studio Flair - Written

Molossi Crystal Lines - Black
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Chit Chat stickers - Verbiage

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