Saturday, 17 February 2018

A Scrapmetal Book Box - A Class with Andy Skinner


Hello all!



I was lucky enough to take part in a class with Andy Skinner held at the Artistic Stamper last week, and made one of the 'Scrapmetal Book Boxes'.

The Tando kit comes as a wooden book box and then a packet with the greyboard extras inside for you to customise. Each piece was decorated with Decoart Products and different stamps from Andy's ranges with Stampendous, as well as his recent releases from the Illusionary Artists range.

Here are some of the photos from the day, but I won't share all the secrets - you will

have to go to one of Andy's classes, or try his fantastic online workshops!








Saturday, 10 February 2018

A JOFY Inspired MDF Ink Rack - Funky Flowers in Bloom!

Good morning all!

I am finally getting around to decorating some of the MDF storage dotted around my room, and with my latest ink rack I decided to go 'JOFY'. 

The basic rack is from Clevercut (Stamps Away) and came flat-packed. I assembled the rack and then base coated the edges with some pale blue paint. I then took a large sheet of watercolour card and measured 4 panels to size (sides, back and top). Using some Distress Oxides, I started to layer the colour and added some detail with Distress Inks and Tim Holtz Stencils. I also added some subtle painted flowers with a beige colour and a JOFY stencil. Once the background was started, I used a stronger colour (Forest Moss Distress Ink) to stencil some PaperArtsy leafy stems. 
Now to add the focal points - the JOFY flowers. I stamped each flower into the position I wanted on my panels. I then stamped parts of them again onto book paper and painted card. After cutting all my pieces out I assembled them and adhered to the backgrounds. Where there were some 'odd' spaces, I stamped some more flowers, leaves or drew in some leaves etc.
On the back panel I painted some card, stamped some more flowers onto this and arranged in one corner. I then used the word 'Bloom' from a JOFY stencil, stencilled in black to create a shadow and then stencilled over it with Fushia Sparkle Medium. To make the paint work 'less perfect' I applied some Silver Alchemy Wax randomly all over the project with my finger.





The only problem is...I need another rack now for all the new colours coming out!

Martina
xxx



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