Technique Tuesday ..... by Lynn Good

Good morning everyone,

Today I would like to share a couple of techniques using the Colour Arte range of  Vivid Ultra-Metallics Acrylic paint.

I have used these paints for the start of my atc's which I will show the completed cards in a later post.

On the first card I have used White Crackle Paste combined with Teal Zircon Vivid paint through a Scrapfx Stencil.

I have done the same on white cardstock without colouring the crackle paste

Once dried I have used the True Metals True-Silver over the black card and Sunburst over the white card stock.  I have then used Autumn Leaf over the stencilled area of the white card (I applied this with my finger)

Another black versus white card stock - I have used Orange Peel and Ginger Peach through a mini stencil with a make up sponge.

In the last two I have used the Ginger Peach paint to cover the entire black card with a paintbrush and stamped using a script stamp.  I spread some paint onto the craft mat and stamped directed into it.

So there is more than one way to use the Vivid Ultra Metallic paints - brush, stencil, mix with paste, finger application, stamp - the list goes on.  I love these paints and I hope this has opened up to ideas on how to use them

Here is a link to the paints in the Art and Soul store:

Vivid Ultra Metallic Paints

Til next time - Happy Crafting

Technique Tuesday - Marabu Art Spray

Hello Soul Sisters

 

Today is Technique Tuesday and I am using the Marabu Art Sprays.

They are available in the store.

The colours that I am using are - Bordeaux, Aubergine and Aquamarine.

 

What are you these products you ask? Well, they are something that I find really exciting. They are acrylic sprays, which means they are permanent , quick drying and waterproof. Most other sprays that you find on the market are not waterproof, they reactivate when water added even after they are dry.

 

Would you like to see what fun I had?

 

I started with four pieces of heavy watercolour cardstock I think they are 300 gsm or maybe even heavier, I cant exactly remember.

2 pieces I left naked and the other 2 I covered with a layer of gesso. Through this tutorial I have made sure that each photo has gesso or no gesso written on it, so its easy for you to see the difference.

 

I sprayed my watercolour paper with the aquamarine spray and then dried it with my heat gun. For a test I then sprayed it with some water to see if I could remove any of the colour. Once I sprayed the water I did actually walk away as one of my children called me. When I came back I wiped the spray with a piece of paper towel as shown in the picture. I did remove some of the colour but it was fairly minimal.

 

The next two photos are of my watercolour paper with the layer of gesso. I did the same as above although I did do the wipe test twice. The top picture was where I sprayed and wiped almost straight away after I dried it with my heat gun, as you can see hardly any colour came away.

 

The second photo is where I decided that I wanted to see what would happen if I sprayed the water and then walked away for a few minutes. Again yes colour came away but nothing to major.

 

Using the aubergine and Bordeaux sprays I sprayed them while they were still wet to see what colour mixing I would get. You can see both colours in both of the following photos. I have to say that I am preferring the effect that the spray has on the gesso, and the colours are much brighter. The gesso is stopping the colour from soaking into the paper so of course it will be brighter.

 

 

These next two photos are where I have taken the aquamarine sprayed card and then sprayed them with bordeaux. What I like about this is that although I have sprayed a darker colour over the top the aquamarine still some through.

 

I decided that spraying the dark colour on top wasn't enough I wanted to see what happened when I sprayed the aquamarine over the top of bordeaux, I am loving what these sprays are doing and the vibrancy and richness of the colours of the gesso is making me want them.

 

My last bit of play is where I add the aquamarine spray to some texture paste and use it through a stencil. I spray the spray three times, and it didn't really alter the consistency of the texture paste.

 

 



 

I hope I have given you lots of information on how these sprays react with each other and other elements. I know it wont be long before I have some more in my stash.

Happy Creating



Technique Tuesday - Nuvo Embellishment Mousse

Hello Soul Sister

 

Today on the blog I bring you some techniques using Nuvo Embellishment Mousse and a Stencil Girl Stencil - Crackled .

 

 

 

 

For my first technique I turned some of my mousse into a spray. I am not sure what ratio I used but the more water you use the less colour you will get.

I also gessoed half of my piece of mixed media paper to see what the result would be.

 

I wanted to know when using the gesso how much of the liquid mousse I would wipe away.
In the photo below you will see that there is a difference. The left hand side of the paper in the photo below is the non-gessoed side and the right hand side is the side with the gesso.

When wiping the mixed media paper both sides reacted to the wiping. The side with the gesso I removed more of the spray that the left hand side. If I had kept wiping I am pretty sure I would have removed most of the spray from the gesso.

 

 

For my second technique instead of using a spatula to apply my mousse through my stencil I used a stencil brush, it is round, with short, stiff bristles.

 

I added some colour over the top with my Derwent Inktense Blocks

 

To clean the stencil I found a page in my journal where I placed the dirty stencil over the top then used a baby wipe to clean it.

 

 

For my third technique I added my mousse to some gesso to see what the reaction would be.

The colour went from dark charcoal to a light grey and I also lost most of the shimmer but still very effective through the stencil. This time I did apply it with my spatula.

 

 

For my last technique I again added water to some of my mousse, but instead of using a spray bottle I used my paintbrush to apply the liquid and then stamped on the wet paper.

 

Hope these techniques have been helpful

Happy Creating