Helen's First Monochromatic Tic Tac Toe Project.

Welcome back to my blog, where today I'm sharing a project for 
Scrap Matrix.

The challenge is to create a project using a tic tac toe monochromatic theme.

For those of you who have not come across this before, the idea is to use any three objects from the grid, but they must be in a straight line horizontally, vertically or even diagonally. You may use any monochromatic colours you like.

Here is the chart

I've elected to use red as my colour and my three items are

Paint, Chipboard and buttons, flairs or brads.

I've watched a few mixed media you tube videos recently and came across a site recommended by my friend Margaret Mifsud, when she made some ATC's.  I was inspired to create a background with book pages, texture paste, embossing, stamping and inks.

I wanted to feature this Blue Fern chipboard, which

 comes in a square. I decided to feature the numbers

so I popped some of the squares out of the chipboard.

Then I cut the chipboard into sections and painted it with Dylusions Black paint.

Next, I heat embossed random patches of the chipboard with

Stampendous ultra think embossing powder.

To create the background of the page, I tore up some old book pages into random strips and adhered them onto a white background with Art Basic Gel

I added some plasterers tape, some Washi tape and some 

Red polka dot patterned paper.

Another layer was added with  Tim Holtz texture paste, through various stencils and

then heat embossed with Stampendous white embossing powder.

 The next layers were made with various stamps, Distress Oxides and Red Gelatos.

I added some stars and brads.

A closer look.

Some of the texture details.

Thanks for your visit today. 

I hope you've found something to inspire you and will be tempted 

to play along at the Scrap Matrix Tic Tac Toe challenge.

Helen's First Texture Share - March 2018 - Happy

Hello there, welcome back to the Scrap Matrix Blog where today I'm sharing a page which celebrates all things Texture.

I love to get messy with mixed media and thoroughly enjoyed creating this layout. I used various techniques to create pretty texture. The page celebrates my Grand daughter's first Birthday. She's wearing a dress which I smocked for her.

The smocking is stitched on pleats of fabric and I used that concept to kick start my project.

Inspired by Marilyn Rivera, I attempted pleating with paper. 

I used Maja papers, similar to this one and this one, in the store.

First I sprayed water onto the paper and then gently folded it to create the pleats.

Next, I attached it to a co-ordinating card stock with some heavy duty tape. 

Then using Tim Holtz texture paste, I created texture on a 

Ranger craft tag with a stencil by Paper Artsy PS086. I dried it with a heat gun.

After smooshing some Distress Oxide inks

 onto a craft mat and misting them with water, I muddled the colour onto the texture paste.

This Blue Fern chipboard, "Dresden Corsage" was first painted with Liquitex white gesso.

Then I painted on some Distress Oxide inks trying to achieve some light and shade with the colours.

I added a bit of gesso to the background paper, 

before adding some random stamping, some Scrap Matrix lace and a doily from my stash.

To add more texture, I hand stitched with DMC thread.

A close up of the chipboard, beads, sequins, muslin, stamping,
ink puddling and splashes. The little butterfly was fussy cut from 
a sheet of embellishments by 13@rts "Freedom"

I hope you will play along at Scrap Matrix using "Texture" and be in the running to win a generous prize from Vicki Christenson.

Why not check out the Scrap Matrix store for all your 
arty crafty supplies.