2021 Topic 14: Mash Up LPC EGL EEV EAB
When
you take images and use them in a new way, it opens up some many
creative opportunities. Look through those faces and imagine the words
that they're thinking in the background! Nikki has chopped up her
stamped images to create something that's wonderfully graphic with an artsy flair.
~ Keren.
Hi everyone, Nikki here from Addicted to Art with
you today. I am a great fan of our 'Mash Up' themes. I love the
challenge of bringing things together that I wouldn't instinctively
combine.
I was very inspired by some of Keren Baker's samples
for the new Lynne Perrella release and her use of Duralar. I am yet to
try this product but reached for some vellum in this project instead.
I
am not sure what drew me to this colour choice - but started some
background work using very roughly painted patches using Fresco Chalk
Acrylics in Blueberry, Periwinkle and Byzantium. I then used the same colours along with Archival Inks to add some texture using Ellen Vargo's stamp sets EEV03 and EEV05.
I
always do an extra scrap of background using the same colours, so if I
need some coordinated coloured card I have some to hand. As you can see
below this happened underneath the clock hand - to punch a small circle.
These
hand carved style stamps are a 'go to' for me - for any background work
and especially on my Gel plate (which is why some of them are VERY
dirty!).
I
am not quite sure what the theme of this project is - it evolved from
wanting to use the vellum stamped faces and developed from there! I heat
embossed the smallest image from Lynne Perrella stamp set - LPC053 with white embossing powder before using dies to cut out the circles.
On
the reverse of the vellum I added some colour with Promarkers. On some
card painted with Periwinkle, I stamped Gwen Lafleur's images from EGL01 with Versamark and heat embossed in gold.
I
love how there are shapes within the shapes on this stamp set from
Gwen; I often use only part of the images. The diamond has been used to
create 2 triangles as well as the central circle forming the top layer
of my compass in the middle.
The
final designer stamps in the 'Mash Up' is Alison Bomber with her
selection of wonderful quotes in various themed sets. On this occasion
though I have used them not as quotes but as background text, and then
selected some individual words.
I wanted the translucence of my vellum faces to have a gold background so used Fresco Chalk Acrylic in Gold to
paint some card and then die cut some circles just bigger than the
faces. I stamped these in Black Archival ink with one of Alison's
quotes.
The stamps sets I used for the 4 individual words are Alison Bomber sets EAB16 (Walt Whitman quote) and EAB19 (George Bernard Shaw quote).
You
often hear stamp designers say 'you don't have to use the entire stamp'
- well I took them at their word here! The faces, the halved diamonds
and the word quotes are all partial stamped images!
