MONIQUE'S PRETTY DARK ART: paris

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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Grande Hotel Paris

I had a play with some paints stamps and stencils, and made a video of the process :-) (see below)

Deco Art Products used:

Americana Acrylic Gesso, Americana Acrylics in : Snow White, Lamp Black, Aqua Sky, Traditional Burnt Sienna, Navy Blue, Media Fluid Acrylics in Yellow Oxide, Coablat Teal Hue, Quinacridone Gold. Ultta Matte Varnish, Texture sand, Black Modeling paste, Metallic Lustre in Iced Espresso.
Americana Decor stencil; Vintage Keys. Andy Skinner Stencil French Elements.
Andy Skinner Curiosity Stamp set.

Other prodcts used : Tim Holtz stencil Argyl, Kaiser Kraft stamp keys, Do Craft Steampunk background stamp

I am entering the following challenges

http://blog.canvascorpbrands.com/diy-photo-frame-a-project-for-the-november-challenge/

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/ triotastic challenge, I used 3 stencils

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Eiffel tower canvas

I have been working on this canvas and have been doubting about adding the ribbon or not, so I kept changing it and finally decided it still needs the ribbon :-) So here it is (after takingthe lace of, and putting it on again) the final piece :-)

Products used:
Deco Art Americana acrylics in :Driftwood, Traditional Burnt Umber, Antique White, Sea Breeze. Deco Art Americana Matte Varnish, Deco Art Dazzling Metallics in Renaissance Brown. Deco Art Media Gesso, Deco Art Media Crackle Glaze, Deco Art Media Matte Medium, Deco Art Media Antiquing Cream in Raw Umber, Deco Art Americana Decor Stencil Distressed Harlequin,
Stamps used: Andy Skinner Industrial set by Stampendous and The French Market Clear stamps set by Tim Holtz. Prima Marketing Built a frame clearstamp set 2, Ranger Archival Jet Black Inkpad and Walnut Stain Distress Ink by Tim Holtz.
Lace, Eiffel tower Charm, old dictionary page, piece cardboard and a canvas. Derwent Inktense pencils.

The page came from my Dutch to French dictionary I used in school, the paper was allready yellowed but I thought it needed some more aging. To make sure the paper would not bleed when using stamps, I added a few layers of Matte varnish. Stamped the corners and coloured the stamps with inktense pencils.

Added the sea breez acrylic in the middle of the page and stamped the Eiffel tower.

Added some more matte Varnish to protect the stamping and colouring and when dry I added the Crackle glaze.

When Crackle glaze is dry rubb antiquing cream in the crackles and over the page, whipe back again when dry till you like the result and protect with matte varnish.

Gesso the canvas and the piece of carboard (I gesso both sides of the cardboard so it won't warp)

Paint the canvas Antique Linnen and let dry, make a wash of Traditional burnt umber and water and age the canvas using a kitchen towel.

Paint the cardboard in Sea breeze and Driftwood using a sponge. When paint is dry use the French Market clearstamp set to create the back ground. Next use the Industrial stamps by Stampendous to age the background and give it the same wash as the dictionary page.
Use Matte Varnish to protect it

Use the distressed Harlquin stencil on the canvas using the Deco Art Dazzling Metallic in Renaissance Brown, and add some on the edges of the page and the charm.

Distress the edges of the carboard using a small paint brush and traditional burnt umber paint .

age the lace and make a bow. add the charm to the bow .

Glue all parts togehter, I usse matte medium to glue the page to the card board.

Sit back and relax (oh....no ... first clean paint brushes and stencils lol, Stencil and paint brush cleaner will make it easier tho)

I will enter the following challenges

http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.nl/2016/07/happy-holidays-5th-july.html

http://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.nl/2016/07/pinspirational-challenge-169.html

http://welove2create.blogspot.nl/2016/07/challenge-14-anything-creativemixed.html

Sunday, September 8, 2013

some more tags

Just had to make this one , inspiration can be found in strange places. Somebody showed me a picture and suddenly this was in my head. We happened to be in Paris a few weeks ago and I had bought some Eiffel Towers. I only needed one but you can't seem to buy just one Eiffel Tower in Paris, they come 5 at a time LOL

The extra towers came in handy for this though...

Supply list

Deco Art Americana,

Acrylic Paint in the colours:

Sea Breeze DA 256-3

Light Buttermilk DA 164-3

Traditional Burnt UmberDA 221

Gesso

Glazing Medium

Weathered wood Crackle medium

I usually save all cardboards from notebooks, enveloppes, anything that has sturdy card isn't thrown away, I hand cut the tags and Gesso them.

Then I painted it using the Sea Breeze, let dry and stamped the images on using Archival Jet Black ink and cobalt blue for the background stamp, it's hardly visable but it's there.
Next the Weathered wood, let dry and apply top layere Light Buttermilk. Watch it crack but don't let dry completly. Whipe away the light buttermilk to get the effect you want. I use a baby whipe for that.
Let dry and make a glaze using the glazing medium and traditionalburnt umber, glaze the whole tag to get a bit more of an old look. Protect the tag using matte Varnish.
Add the roses and other embellies and voila.....