2019 #8 Put a Brush on it: Brush Doll with EAB {by Etsuko Noguchi}

2019 Topic 8: Put a Brush On It

I love how in this post Etsuko has totally transformed a brush into a 'doll' The bristles look like her skirt/legs an there's a wonderful transfer technique in the mix too, it is fabulous! ~ Leandra

Hi everyone, it's Etsuko My Favorite Things with you today, and I'd like to share with you Brush Doll using Alison Bomber 'Words and Pictures' fabulous new stamp set.

I chosen the wonderful love quote from 'Wuthering Heights' of her love stamps edition. I made the doll that Catherine's lonely face and she drift to the moors with her wings.
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Height and La Petite Fadette were my favorite books in my early teens, and always imagined the scenery of the scene as there were no forests and plains near us.

At first I prepared 2inches painting brush and Heavy Gray White Board for the doll body and dress.

Next I stamped by Ink the Dog Mini10 on Smoothy Heavy White Card and colored the doll's face. Then I scanned and printed it.

I used the Clear Tar Gel to the printed doll face for transfer and left it overnight.

When Gel dried the face transferred to a book paper. ---Sorry this book paper was not from Wuthering Heights.

I usually use some design paper for a doll dress, but this time I used PaperArtsy stamps and Fresco paints to make collage. All papers was brushed brayered and stamped.  This is using Double Denim, Glacier Ice and Snowflake Fresco paints on the Smoothy Regular White Card. These stamps from Courthney's new stamps ECF06.

I made wings and upper part of dress from this paper.

This paper using Mud Splat, Eggshell and Steel Gray Fresco paint, and ECF04 Courthney stamp.

This paper was sober when it was put together, so I used a stencil and added Vanilla Fresco color.

Used Blue Lagoon, Smurf and Glass Blue Fresco paints.

This bottom of the dress paper, I want need some texture but not much, so i used Seth's baked texture and some embossing powder.

I added wonderful love quote from EAB09 by new Alison's stamp, used black embossing powder onto the painted Glacier Ice Smoothy Card. I cut it and put on the top of the dress and this is from the bottom of her heart.

Finally I added red heart and flower hair ornament to her and hanging wire.
This is a finished Catherine Doll. I made very simply and few steps. I think that anyone can easily and fun to make various your own Brush Dolls.
Please try and enjoy.

Thank you so much for visiting.
Etsuko xxx

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2018 #12 Transfers: Where did you get that hat? {by Lucy Edmondson}

2018 Topic 12: Transfers

Lucy figured out how to do an image transfer by sheer determination. Sometimes, you just have to keep trying different methods until the one you like best clicks with you! I love how her transfer is made more 3 dimensional with the addition of shrink plastic flowers for the hat! ~ Leandra

Hi everyone, it's Lucy from Lucy's True Colours here, and today I'd like to share with you a wall hanging where I have transferred a magazine image onto linen using gel medium. I made a wall hanging with Tracy Scott's striking floral stamps. As it's rather an Ascot and garden party time of year here in the UK, I thought a boldly decorated hat was called for, although this lady makes me think rather more of a mad painter wearing an artist's smock, venturing out of her studio onto the lawn on a hot day for some alfresco painting. I think she has a glass of something refreshing and alcoholic by her side, which she absent-mindedly dips her brushes in from time to time. Anyone want to claim her?! 

I have lovely Lesley Ebdon to thank for helping me eventually get the hang of image transfer using gel medium, having failed at so many image transfer techniques in the past. I do like a distressed look but when you lose an eye or a whole foot when doing a transfer, it gets a bit soul destroying after a while! This was the stunning post Lesley did for PaperArtsy where she showed the technique off to great effect.

I roughly drew around the torn upside down image first with a pencil, so I could fill in the area with gesso, and once it was completely dry, smeared the image with my gel medium (I used Liquitex) and smoothed it down thoroughly. I left this overnight.

I spritzed it with water and it was very easy then to rub away the paper pulp and reveal my image.

Now to the hat, and Tracy's stamps! I stamped a selection onto the shiny side of some translucent shrink plastic, with various shades of StazOn ink, and then added some colour on the reverse with alcohol pens and cut out. 

I used flowers from Eclectica Tracy Scott 06

Eclectica Tracy Scott 07 

and Eclectica Tracy Scott 08

In fact I made rather a lot! I cut a frilly bit from around one of the flowers to make a trailing scarf, and twisted it as I heated it. I curled some of the flowers up whilst they were still warm so they would sit neatly against the curve of the hat brim. You can see the hat here, which was from a pack of Easter bonnets, which I cut in half and gesso'ed.

In this photo you can see her face, from underneath the brim of her hat. She is not going to get sun burned! I wrapped the linen around a couple of chopsticks and secured with more gel medium. To finish off, I emphasized a few of the lines with a little pencil and added Fresco Finish Gloss Glaze to her shoes.

This was great fun to do, and I found myself doing a number of transfers as it is so addictive, so I can report back that it works with both Liquitex and Golden Gel Medium, and with a huge range of magazines and clothing catalogues. I liked knowing that it was going to work, and wasn't going to ruin the substrate, as you could confidently transfer directly on to a ready made item such as a canvas tote bag, as a unique starting point for a mixed medium project. I hope you will enjoy browsing the 'Sundays' this weekend with a new purpose!

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2016 #4 Grunge Paste Transfer {by Kaz Hall}

2016 #4: Image Transfer 

Hi everyone Kaz Hall from The Little Shabby Shed here, joining you this evening with a post about Image Transfer. As a collector of old photographs, I’m always looking for ways to use the images in my art work. This technique is one of my favourites…..I never tire of seeing the process progress from start to finish. I love the effect plus it suits the style of vintage art that I love to create.

I’ve done this technique many a time using different mediums, with some great results but I really wanted to experiment and try it with grunge paste, here’s what I did…

Step One: You will need: A photocopied image, Grunge Paste, a palette knife, card, water spritzer, paint and paintbrush. Take a photo copy of your image (laser printed not ink jet) cut it to size. 

Step Two: On a piece of Kraft card apply a layer of grunge paste using a palette knife. You need to allow enough paste in the area where you want your image to go.

Step three: While the grunge paste is wet, take your photocopied image and place it face down onto the paste. Use your finger to burnish it, for best results you must let the paste and the image dry completely.

Step four: When the image and paste are completely dry, take a water spritzer and spritz generously the back of the photocopied image. Using your finger, gently rub away the paper pulp, your image will now be transferred onto the grunge paste

Step five: To add some colour to your image transfer, use a translucent paint ( I used Pumpkin Soup) and build up a wash around the image.

Step six: Stamp around your image transfer (I used the new Hot picks 1604 and HP1605) in Archival black ink.

HP1604

HP1605

When you have finished stamping, use your heat tool to dry the ink, then take some Matte Glaze and paint a layer over your image transfer to seal the image. You can then finish off your art work however you wish to.

You could always try applying the grunge paste to an already painted or stamped background, I think it would look really cool on a crackle background… there really are so many options to this cool technique.

I use Image transfer a lot, it’s so much fun to do, each time I try this technique I love the anticipation of how the end result will look. My only advice would be not to rush, it may take a couple of practises to get the look you are after but it’s so worth the wait!

Thank you so much for joining me tonight, I hope you will enjoy exploring the possibilities of Image transfer. 

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Kaz 

Welcome to the blog kaz, and thankyou for sharing such a cool technique. I am guesing lots of people will want to try this out. The beauty of working on Grunge Paste is that not only does it hold the transfer but it adds dimension and texture and if you want it really grungy you could sand it back. Brilliant! ~Darcy 

We would love to see how you interpret this Image Transfers  topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #4: Image Transfers, on this page HERE.

All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas,  particularly if you were inspired directly by their post. 

All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Image Transfers link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, March 6th. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

2016 #4 Super Easy Transfers {by Keren Baker}

2016 Topic 4: Image Transfers

Hi everyone Keren here. 

Tonight I'd like to share some really easy transfer techniques with you.

When I got to know which evening I'd be joining you, I needed to use some images from The Cat's Meow range. Now, you'd be forgiven if this range wasn't as familiar to you as some of the others..it's one of those hidden gems that definitely needs a little love and because the images are not as complex as some that PaperArtsy have, I thought maybe I'd use some simpler transfer techniques too.

As the techniques are very straightforward, I've created 2 pieces, one for each. The first one makes good use of a slight shortcoming in the technique. The mirror technique creates a less than perfect mirror image and when I saw the CM-Ocean sea themed images, I knew the slightly fuzzy final image would be perfect

Step One: First, stamp the main image onto your cardstock. Next, stamp the image using the same ink onto an acrylic block. Then turn over the acrylic block and stamp below the first image so it looks like a reflection.

CM-Ocean

Step Two: Now it's just a case of adding details and colour to give the impression of a stretch of water. I've used some Prismacolor pencils and rather than try and get a softer duplicated colour of the bird in the reflection, I've just left it blank; your eye magically ignores the fact that it should really have a little colour (or is that just wishful thinking on my part?!)

I love how packed the stamp sets are with tiny detailed images that really add lovely details. You can probably see the 'salty water' wording in the sea that gives the impression of the waves gently breaking and sea foam.

The second technique incorporates only glue and an old book.I chose a book with white pages so I could create as clean and simple a design as possible.

Step One: Gather what you need- book, glue, bone folder and base cardstock. I've used the fab CM-Cat set. You can also use Mod Podge or another substance that has great adhesive qualities.

The trick is to spread the adhesive evenly but thinly onto the book page strip.. Add your strip onto the cardstock and burnish down well. Remove the book page quickly after burnishing but do it carefully to leave as much of the image on the card as possible. If you want more of the page removing, add a few drops of water and gently rub the page away. Add colour and finish your project.

CM-Cat

Transfer techniques need not be complicated or need many supplies.I hope you'll give these simpler techniques a go and do have an explore through the Cat's Meow section 

Thanks for joining me tonight,

Keren xx (Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest @craftstampink )

Oh we love the simple techniques Keren, these make transfers doable for everyone. thankyou for stripping this topic back to basics and reminding us of these quick and pretty much free techniques. So fabulous to see Cat;s Meow having a cheeky outing, they always make fun projects. ~Darcy 

We would love to see how you interpret this Image Transfers topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #4: Image Transfers, on this page HERE.

All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas, particularly if you were inspired directly by their post. 

All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Image Transfers link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, March 6th. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.