2015 #8 Spray Tags {by Anneke De Clerck}

2015 Theme 8: Sprays

Hi everyone Anneke here, joining you this evening with a post about paint sprays. 

I made my own sprays with two of my favorite PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics. I never made paint sprays before so I had no idea where this would lead me but I have to say I'm happy with the result!

I made a tag book from size 8 tags and attached the pages with a strip of linen fabric.

I started with cutting 8 tags out of watercolor paper. I made paint sprays with Fresco Finish Paint Caribbean Sea and Limelight. See Leandra's video on how to make your own paint sprays. Immediately after spraying I've put the tags vertically to let the paint drip.

Spraying with watered down paint creates beautiful drips on the watercolor paper. As you can see I kept a few areas white on each tag.

After drying I randomly sponged squares with Distress Ink Mermaid Lagoon, Dina Wakley Media Paint 'Lime' and a stencil (Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Harlequin).

I overstamped all of the tags with EclecTica  EDY 05,  EDY 11, EDY 12 stamps and Fresco Finish Paint Caribbean Sea and Limelight. 

I always use my fingers to load paint on a stamp. This way I'm sure to have the right amount of paint on the stamp.

I made pink dots with a stencil (Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Burlap) and Fresco Finish Candy Floss. 

I'm fond of stamping with unusual stuff. Here I used the lid of my bottle of Tacky Glue in combination with Fresco Finish Bougainvillea. 

I stamped directly on four of the tags (front pages) with EclecTica  EDY 05, EDY 09, 

EDY 10, EDY 11 stamps and Archival Ink Jet Black.

I colored the flowers with a white pencil and a white Sharpie pen.

I painted a page from a vintage book with Fresco Finish Snowflake and punched circles out of it. I glued the circles on the tags and colored them with Fresco Finish Caribbean Sea and Limelight. I painted tissue paper with Fresco Finish Bougainvillea and added torn strips to the tags. 

I layered the tags two by two and sandwiched a strip of linen fabric in between. As the tag on the right ends up as the cover of the book, I've stamped the text from the EDY 11 set in full on it.

For this tag book I had a lot of stamping in mind so I wanted a discrete, soft and smooth background. The spraying and dripping technique with the watered down Fresco Paints was the ideal base!  I hope you will give this technique a try. I would love to see your takes!

Have fun!

Anneke 


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Ohhh these colours just ooze such wonderful vibrancy!! What a wonderful way to pull a project all together! I love how you have made Darcy's flower stamps softer. So cool! Thanks Anneke! ~Leandra

We would love you to join in with challenge #8: Sprays If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Sprays link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 10th, winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

2015 #8 Fabric Journal {by Ruth Mescall}

Hi everyone, my name's Ruth Mescall from ‘a love to create’. I was so pleased to be asked to do a project on the current theme of 'Sprays'. I love dabbling with ink, paint and fabric and if it involves me getting messy, that's even better! I like nothing more than trying out new ideas and techniques, so I decided to create my own resist canvas and make some fabric journal pages. 

I started with unprimed canvas and to create the resist tried a few different products through a stencil PS001 , as well as trying stamping. After spraying the canvas with paint you can see the results below. Snowflake fresco worked really well but I decided to go with matte gel medium as it was more subtle.

 Whilst the resist fabric pages were drying I made up my spray bottles of mainly translucent fresco paints (about 1/4 paint to water). I mixed up 8 sprays - Zesty Zing and Pumpkin Soup, Tangerine Twist, China and Blue Glass with a touch of Inky Pool, Carribean Sea and Inky Pool, Hey Pesto and Inky Pool, Limelight and Inky Pool, Blueberry, Bougainvillea. The touch of Inky Pool would hopefully help the greens and blues work together.

I sprayed drifts of translucent fresco colours and it gave a lovely blended effect, once dry I used a damp wipe to remove the paint from the resist areas. I stamped images from the following JOFY sets in black archival. JOFY 32 and JOFY 33. The grass being the stalk from JOFY 14

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I'd originally thought I could spray colours for the flowers onto the pages but realised that would be far too difficult so I decided to use my sprays to colour the flowers and leaves in a slightly different way. I put a little Matte Gel Medium around the flowers to stop the paint spreading out and then used the tip of the spray tube to dab paint on in puddles of colour.

Once it started soaking into the canvas the drying could be finished with a heat gun. I used some snowflake under the blue flowers so they stayed more true to colour. I really liked the watercolour effect on the flowers and will definitely be making my own resist canvas again.

Thanks for having me, I really enjoyed ‘playing’ Ruth x

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These fabric resist journal pages look great Ruth, and lovely to see the different resist results. You have shown how well Fresco Paints retain their depth of colour even when diluted. The JOFY stamps are perfect for mimicking a spring/summer garden in bloom. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us all.

We would love you to join in with challenge #8: Sprays If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Sprays link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 10th, winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

2015 #8 Barcelona {by Emma Godfrey.PA Signature Designer}

2015 Theme 8: Sprays

Hi everyone, Emma here, joining you this evening with a post about sprays. I've always loved using sprays - whether they're pre-made or handmade ones. In the project below I've used them in my three favourite ways - making a spray with paint, using just water in a spray, and mixing mica powder into a spray. My finished item is a pocket scrapbooking layout, but the instructions below are for the background sheet I made, which I then cut up and used in the layout.

Step One: Mix up Bougainvillea Fresco Finish paint with water in a spray bottle (I usually use 1/3 paint to 2/3 water).   Lay your stencils (PS016 & PS017) over an A4 sheet of Smoothy card, and spray liberally.  Lift the stencils off and dry the cardstock.   Don't worry too much if it's not perfect ... you just want some colour and interest on the page.

Step Two: Next I applied Distress Ink over the whole page.   I used four colours (Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Peacock Feathers and Worn Lipstick) and the round Mini Blending Tool (I love that you get no harsh edges with this).  I applied each colour in several areas and then blended them together.

Step Three: Spray water over the page, letting it create larger drops where possible.   Leave for a few moments and then blot.    Because the Distress Inks react with water you will get this fabulous bleach like splodges.   Add more until you're happy with the effect.

Step Four: Stamp the large scribble circle (EEG07) in Jet Black Archival Ink all over the page. Then scrape Snowflake Fresco Finish paint over the top with a palette knife. Allow that to dry, and then stamp the small circle (EEG07) with the Snowflake Fresco Finish paint randomly all over the sheet.

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Step Five: Draw with a water soluble pencil around some of the small white circles, and then go over the lines with a wet paint brush.    Add some dashes using a charcoal pencil.    Then unscrew the top of your  Bougainvillea spray bottle (that we  used in Step One)  and flick the tube bit over the page to add some splatter in places.

Step Six: To finish the sheet mix some Perfect Pearls mica powder into a spray bottle with some water (I used Bronze), and spray random areas of your page. Once dry, your page is ready to be cut up.

To create the layout I cut 0.25" strips and punched 1.5" circles from the decorated sheet.  I edged all the pieces with a Jet Black Archival Ink pad before sticking them onto Heavy Smoothy pieces of card with my photos.  To finish I stamped some phrases from my stamp sets (EEG01, EEG02 & EEG03) with black ink, and added glitter foam letters for my title.

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I love using lots of bright colour, but I also sometimes have to go back to my Clean & Simple roots, and this layout let me do both.  I was so pleased with the way it turned out, and I still have plenty of my background sheet left to use on other projects (check out my blog in the next few weeks to see what I might do with the rest of it). I also loved using my Distress Ink Pads again.  I have to admit it's been a while since I played with them, but it was great to be able to mix them up with the PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints. Hope you like the layout, and see you soon.

Emma

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Thanks Emma, this is a fabulous way to create backgrounds and embellishment details. The three techniques used really work well together. We love how those pops of colour peek though the white layer, gives it a real luminescence. 

We would love you to join in with challenge #8: Sprays If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Sprays link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 10th, winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

  

2015 #8 Just Add Water {by Jo Myhill}

2015 Theme 8: Sprays

Hi everyone Jo Myhill (shabby dandelion) here, joining you this evening with a post about using PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paints and water I love using Fresco Paints to make textured backgrounds. the thickness of the paints is great to dilute down with water to make it flow and spread.Its messy but very simple and quick!

Step One: I took an 8x8" piece of Kraft card and covered in tissue paper that had been stamped with the brick stamp from ESN12 in Sienna Archival and the Days and Months from Hotpicks Xtra06 in Black Archival. 

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Step Two: Over this I scraped a very small amount of Grunge Paste. I sprayed this with water so it became the texture of glace icing and moved it around to spread it out, making sure you could see the background stamping in places. You'll need to dry this with a heat gun as there is so much moisture now in the paste.

Step Three: Taking a bottle of Nougat paint I squeezed a line of paint in the middle of the card.  

Step Four: Holding the card upright I then sprayed the paint with water to make it flow down the page. Depending on how much water you spray will depend on how much the paint moves.  You can also use a spatula to spread out the paint if you have a very thick line of paint (I did as you can see). Turn the card round so you can get drips going the opposite way.  

Step Five: I use a garden mister so I get a lot of water on the card and dripping down onto my craft mat.  I mopped up the excess paint by laying a sheet of thick handmade paper in the watery paint, letting it soak it up and drying.  This gave some great watercolour type background paper to use in something else.

Step Six: I repeated the line of paint and water spraying this time with Cherry Red. Again I moved the watered down paint with a spatula.

I decided to leave it here.  

I often make backgrounds but then don't do anything with them for a while. Sometimes I leave then this size and add further focal points for example the handmade paper might be used with this with some stamping or I might cut down into tags or what about adding the lines of paint at the top and stencilling over the top with more Grunge Paste to add even more textured layers. This is a really simple technique to build up layers and create an abstract textured background, trust me it is that simple, so have a go and get messy!

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Jo, we love this piece which captures perfectly how brilliantly Fresco Paints work when diluted, your colour palette as always is exqusite, love the pop of red against the nautural background. A fab textured piece, thank you for sharing your creativity.

We would love you to join in with challenge #8: Sprays If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Sprays link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 10th, winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

 

2015 #8 Eternal Stars {by Julie Anne Lee}

2015 Theme 8: Sprays

Hi everyone, Julie Ann from Magpieheaven, joining you this evening with a post about spray painting a journal page. It's ages since I mixed Frescos with water and whooshed them over a project. I love this technique because sprayed washes of dream-like colours can add magic to a page. Sarah Nauman's sentiments and designs on ESN13 always evoke the starry, moonlight world of Pierrot for me so I decided to combine sprays, my own art-work and Sara's wonderfully adaptable stamps on this page.

Step One: Normally I begin with a spray painted background, but this time I was going to work back-to-front! I sketched my page in the style of the artist Modigliani - I love his long-necked, mysterious figures! I layered opaque Fresco colour in Wisteria, Guacamole, Vanilla, Chalk, Nougat and Lake Wanaka - all well-diluted. As I wanted to begin with a luminous image and then create a film over it, when the Fresco was dry I added white highlights with a Posca pen and some Inktense pencils before applying several coats of Satin Glaze and defining with a fine pen.

Step Two: I coloured some PaperArtsy Grunge Paste with one of my favourite Lin Brown Limited Collection shades, Caribbean Sea. Just a few drops added to the Grunge Paste create a beautiful base colour without making the paste too runny. I used tracing paper to make a mask for my Pierrot and applied this through sequin waste, using a palette knife.

Step Three: Now it was time to mix up some sprays! I chose Blue Glass, Wisteria and Beach Hut, half-filling the sprays with water and then two or three squirts of Fresco and some drops of Pearl Glaze and a good shake. The look I was going for was a film over the page and I didn't mind little droplets adhering to the face - the Satin Glaze would provide slight resist too.

Step 4: Let the spraying begin! The first time I ever sprayed a project I managed to get paint everywhere including on the cat, so this time I placed my journal inside a large box and, as it was a glorious spring day, I took the extra precaution of spraying it in the garden!

Step 5: I also covered a piece of card painted with Banana Fresco with my fine misty, pearl spray. This would be for the sentiment, which I stamped in Wendy Vecchi Forget me not Archival and clear embossed.

Step 6: Stamping with Chalk circles from ESN13 and using South Pacific paint to stamp some text, along with bottle tops dipped into these colours, added depth and I applied another light spray, before highlighting the Grunge Paste texture with Sapphire and Lilac Treasure Gold. I just had to shrink one of Sara's text stars, using translucent Shrink Plastic with a wash of Guacamole as my finishing touch

ESN13

I really liked the subtle effect the spray washes gave to the page. Fresco washes make a great background for canvases too, especially if you stand your canvas up and allow the paints to trickle down after spraying. Thank You so much for looking at my journal page. I do hope you'll  create some spray colours of your own and maybe add that misty film to a  stamped image.

Julie Ann of Magpieheaven wishing you a painty, creative week.

Wow! we love this, The layers achieved here are just fabulous Julie Ann. Such an interesting process, one would think that using opaques would entirely cover up the initial stages; when diluted they make wonderful washes, exactly as you have here. 

We would love you to join in with challenge #8: Sprays If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Sprays link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 10th, winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.